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djbebs
5y ago
Drugs are in no way legal in portugal
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5y ago
A company with no revenue, no profits and no cash reserves or way to borrow them? Short sellers didnt drive them to bankruptcy, they did it all by themselves.
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5y ago
Like many things the answer is extremely simple. Because they are not the ones paying the cost of mismanagement, and they have a captive audience that is both legally prohibited to go elsewhere, and practically ignorant of how mich they are
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5y ago
Its the other way around actually. The nqzis were copying América
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5y ago
Oh no, hes going to be reading every email you send and receive, every message and everything you do. D9nt worry though, he wont do anything unless he finds anything illegal.
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5y ago
I fully understand how it works, I literallygrew up across the street from a protected winery, I simply disagree with it. It's no more than local protectionism that has no bearing on the type or quality of the products. If you want to
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5y ago
Good. These "protected origin" crap are finally getting the treatment they deserve. Maybe if this sort of retaliation becomes more common we won't have as much crap about not being able to make "grana padano style cheese
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5y ago
Bitcoin is just finw, and so is this.
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5y ago
By this time a significant pprtion of the varangian guard were actually anglo saxon.
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5y ago
He haas none, because its not true.
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Rich people are the only ones paying anything at all. If that's not paying their fair share, how are the 50% of people who don't pay any income taxes at all paying their fair share?
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5y ago
What's wrong with that?
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5y ago
No, the tax code is complex because the state wants to pick winners and losers.
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Gdpr is totally and complete crap. It has zero redeeming qualities.
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5y ago
Dividends come in
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5y ago
If you put it to the test you would be very hard pressed to find and identifiable difference, just like wine experts can't tell a 5$ wine from a 500$ wine
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5y ago
Theres no such thing as "terroir" the whole concept is bullshit intended to justify the unjustifiable.
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What those caps will actually do is eemove the option of having it delivered.
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5y ago
Short selling is not a bad or evil thing.
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5y ago
You cant afford food when you dont have a job.
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5y ago
Walmarts finances are public, you need only read their latest 10-K and youll have a pretty good idea of how much money they make.
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5y ago
Why should they?
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5y ago
Personally I don't see much benefit for this system, opposed to approval voting.
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5y ago
Amazon's margins are in line with most supermarket chains.
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5y ago
2 things: - bitcoin tends towards 21 million mined bitcoin, but just like mathematical limits that means that it will continue mining some bitcoin essentially forever (progressively smaller and smaller amounts). - people forgetting or losin
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5y ago
Bitcoin is not inherently deflationary. And the inflationary consensus in mainstream economics is not one born out of reason, evidence or good faith. The truth is, inflationary monetary policy is mainstream because of political reasons, not
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5y ago
Not paying what you owe.
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5y ago
Yes, but the restrictions on investment that insurance companies are under means that you'd be better of if you invested it yourself
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5y ago
And 13% of income. Perhaps the problem is that poor people are poor because they make bad financial decisions, not because rich people are kicking them down.
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5y ago
The size of the debt is not irrelevant in MMT. Public debt is simply shifting inflation in time, with the costs that additional inflation will be created, due to the additional spending on interest. In short it is simply reducing inflation
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