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by kennend3 4y ago
as someone posted, 500K was like 20 years ago.. it is now a million dollars. and no one said they have 'exclusive accountants'. There are accounting services where you pay them for a few days work and they take care of all your b
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by kennend3 4y ago
This! i posted above, but it is crazy people think the ultra-wealthy sit around and pay bills online. They have assistants and accountants and they are not paying bills the size wealthy people rack up on their phones.
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by kennend3 4y ago
Speaking of security.. tell us, what is involved in "jailbreaking" an iphone? you take some action, and get "root" access to the OS which allows things like bypassing the anti-theft mechanism? Do you remember the days wh
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by kennend3 4y ago
What I find interesting is you think the ultra-rich do their own banking? They are not paying assistants and accountants so they can do mundane tasks like login to a banking site and pay a bill.
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by kennend3 4y ago
I'm also Canadian. We have the same shitty system for the exact same reasons the US has their shitty system. 1) the best way to get elected is to promise people things with their own money. This creates more and more programs the gov
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by kennend3 4y ago
Here (Canada) alcohol is highly taxed. Take a look at Canada's consumption numbers and see if the "sin tax" accomplished anything.
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by kennend3 4y ago
In the case of the US you cant easily tax sugar production. The bulk of US sugar comes from "HFCS" (high fructose corn syrup) which is HEAVILY subsidized in the first place. So taxing something you are subsidizing makes zero sense
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by kennend3 4y ago
This!. Your post touches on several key points. The US "anti-subsidy" laws where they put duties on products they deem were government subsidized, while CORN is massively subsidized. "Subsidies for corn—the most abundant crop
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by kennend3 4y ago
This! Fines are often considered "the cost of doing business" these days. We need to revisit the system and take new approaches, like what you propose.
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by kennend3 4y ago
If history has taught us anything it is this - As long as there is money to be made people will literally destroy anything to get it.
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by kennend3 4y ago
i think you forgot to add "communist" in your response. Normally people like to write "authoritarian communist government" to make it sound really bad. So like the people of China want crypto banned, and the government d
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by kennend3 4y ago
> Cryptocurrency is a cancerous scam that needs to die. But I want to give them same due process rights as any other activity. This doesn't make sense. You want it to die, which is done via LAWS. Yet you complain about the laws pa
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by kennend3 4y ago
https://statisticstimes.com/economy/united-states-vs-china-e... if you look carefully, you can see that based on PPP China has overtaken the US. You may also notice that the US is the one on the downtrend? Most countr
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by kennend3 4y ago
I live in Ontario as well. This is why we need more PPP (private-public-partnerships) here. Just look at the MTO. It use to be an absolute cesspool or inefficiency which would make the old USSR envious. Drivers license expired? Time to go
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by kennend3 4y ago
Let me guess, unions would stop the corporate corruption? How are the two issues (corporate corruption and unions) related? Because i was asked to point out corrupt unions therefor by showing that corrupt corporations exists they "can
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by kennend3 4y ago
We use to have a review panel where techers would discipline other teachers. They got to the point they were simply moving bad teachers around from school to school so our government had to pass laws to rebuild the entire corrupt process.
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by kennend3 4y ago
This is EXACTLY why i am not fond of unions.. the police. Here (Ontario, Canada) we have dozens and dozens of police collecting full salary for YEARS pending criminal trials. Cant fire them, cant do anything about it. Instead of "defun
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by kennend3 4y ago
> Unions may or may not have bankrupted companies there is no "may or may not".. Unions DID bankrupt several companies. It is odd you wrote what you did because how many times has the US government ever have to intervene in a c
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by kennend3 4y ago
so you didn't write: Spooky23 2 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] If you allow companies to consolidate and exert unlimited political power, workers need to be able to self-organize to ensure their interests are represented. Full st
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by kennend3 4y ago
I'm Canadian but lived in the US for several years. One takeaway from my time in the US is they really need to address its "lobbying" rules. We have a bit of a lobbying problem here, but no where near the level we see to the
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by kennend3 4y ago
First of all, if it was unclear i was being sarcastic with my response back to the OP. I took what he wrote, replaced "union" with "company" and asked if this made sense too? One thing about "fairness" is it sh
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by kennend3 4y ago
> If it’s bad for an autoworker to buy an “import”, surely a Microsoft employee should be shopping at Walmart or some other Microsoft partner, not Amazon. that really is a stretch don't you think? Perhaps they are buying imports bec
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by kennend3 4y ago
How much of the major auto bailouts years ago was the result of union rules? For decades they met union demands to avoid costly legal fights.. and in the end? this is rather old, but telling: https://www.theguardian.com/busi
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by kennend3 4y ago
If you allow unions to consolidate and exert unlimited political power, companies need to be able to self-organize to ensure their interests are represented. Full stop. Does that work as well, or is this one of those "one way street&qu
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by kennend3 4y ago
Not sure where you are, but spend a few mins and see all the not-so-good things the unions have done here (Ontario, canada). The idea of "forgotten its missing" really rings true here. Every election they create some sort of &quot
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by kennend3 4y ago
As others posted, your logic is very very off on this one. "the fact individuals are anti-income tax should tell you all you need to know.." "the fact criminals are anti-law enforcement should tell you all you need to know..&
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by kennend3 4y ago
THIS! i use to like r/antiwork on Reddit but dumped it over a year ago. It isnt about "antiwork" but "union drives". The answer to almost any workplace issue seems to be "join a union" but what about the
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by kennend3 4y ago
Will be interesting to see how this unfolds. Will Apple do the "Kindle" model (ad-supported at a lower cost) or the Samsung Model (full price, with ads)? Paying > $1,000 for a phone and being force-fed ads from a company concer
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by kennend3 4y ago
Again, this is highly dependent on many things including how the market is structured. If your politicians are not concerned about energy policy, you did not elect the right ones. Politicians should have the same concerns as those they rep
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by kennend3 4y ago
Yes. My son is a nuclear physicist and found the whole "Germany shuts down its nuclear plants in favour of Russian gas" a strange choice. They made a choice, now they see the results of the decision? Maybe this will be a catalyst

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