miscreanity

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by miscreanity 8y ago
"Love of money is the root of many evils." It's a subtle but important distinction: money of any kind is a tool, existing for a valid purpose; otherwise inert. Accumulating money in a manner viewing it as a score versus other
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Jesus proclaimed Jewish leaders of the day as hypocrites for telling people to do as they said while not following their own preaching; in other words: committing sin. Likewise, there is a great deal of biblical interpretation that goes off
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by miscreanity 8y ago
If you don't know about him already, you might find Martin Armstrong interesting. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/blog/
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by miscreanity 8y ago
I find it even more interesting that my comment, which is factually correct, has been flagged. The Yellow Vest movement started in France and has been prominent in the countries listed within the article. The governments of those countries
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Without context you'll always get assumptions. Part of discourse is establishing clarity. Of course a toxic environment makes life harder. Glad you're doing well.
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by miscreanity 8y ago
A highly dense population will always experience activity. Unless you're going into private properties, which is generally a prosecutable offence so don't do it, you wouldn't know which buildings have high or low occupancy. T
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by miscreanity 8y ago
A thief can go to his grave thinking he's a victim. Being coddled into a lie is the saddest thing that can happen to a nation's people.
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by miscreanity 8y ago
They're actually getting even better at it - 1.12% in 2009-10! I like how you've pointed out the amount relative how much theft^H^H^H^H^H "tax" revenue is brought in rather than the absolute amount of: £3,673,797,000 Tha
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Human behavior is quite simple - it's the magnitude of interactions that that make it appear more complex than it is. I do agree that it is easier to be lazy and obtain instant gratification than delay it for great reward but it can be
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by miscreanity 8y ago
The other part of that is doing something about it. No action, no success. Of course, by the time you figure it out you'll realize that most wealthy people are not the evil sleaze we expect them to be and you'll take the same ac
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Is it more beneficial for yourself to blame others or figure out how to improve your situation? If you're not content to remain a crab in a bucket, it might be a good idea to meet some successful and/or wealthy people and learn fr
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by miscreanity 8y ago
The benefits are not purely monetary - raising the quality of an area due to investment that otherwise would never come in is an enormous benefit for people already living there. That isn't too say throwing money at a bad neighborhood
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by miscreanity 8y ago
So complicate the tax issue which increases costs elsewhere and contribute to government managed funds that prove inept? Taking funds from a farmer growing crops successfully and giving them to the one nextdoor who still hasn't been ab
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Imagine if you weren't allowed to use a calculator without a $5,000 license and six months of training. Sounds absurd? Welcome to the financial world, where outsiders are frowned upon. The market is highly regulated in large part due t
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Any tax decrease "disproportionately" benefits the wealthy because they have more. A 1% decrease on $50,000 income is going to be less than the same percentage decrease on $500,000. Of course, you could argue that "progressiv
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by miscreanity 8y ago
No other factors are provided: were you in an affluent area? What other demographics influenced your school? Is there a high ratio of homeschooling or private schools to public schooling? Your anecdote is one data point, nowhere near enough
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by miscreanity 8y ago
I will not do business in California or NY due to excessive costs. Many others are either already moved out or are scaling back in high tax areas; Florida, Puerto Rico and Texas seem to be the top tax-friendly destinations currently. There
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by miscreanity 8y ago
It seems you assume I was taking about tax collection and government being highly funded - I'm referring to the economy as a whole, of which government is only one component; preferably a shrinking one. Investment is accelerating in lo
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Weakening of integrity in science is the issue, not the fact that research begets advancement.
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by miscreanity 8y ago
No. The magnitude of such an omission is absurd. If I were to model the solar system and leave out the sun, it would be laughable and I would quickly find myself out of funding.
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by miscreanity 8y ago
I am considering citizenship options for the same reasons - access to financial instruments that US institutions such as the SEC prohibit, despite some of those instruments being far better than can be obtained domestically. It can be diffi
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by miscreanity 8y ago
The cost and risk banks take to ensure that US citizens comply with US law is absurdly draconian. It is massively safer for a bank to simply deny participation than to risk fines and expulsion from the global financial system that would eff
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Yes, and the bar has been raised[1] in recent years. When high net worth individuals start to leave, it's good to question the reason since they typically have more flexibility than lower-income earners who might do the same if they ha
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by miscreanity 8y ago
People are already moving from high tax states to ones with no income tax. They won't stick around to simply die, so where will the taxes come from when the population is dwindling and there's no incentive to stay with rising tax
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by miscreanity 8y ago
You could also eat less to save money on a declining income but eventually you'll be eating so little that you won't have the energy to get up and eat. Such actions have been attempted by empires throughout history - Julius Caesar
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by miscreanity 8y ago
There was no income tax for over a third of United States history. Income tax is immoral for it penalizes lower wage earners proportionally far greater than those generating higher amounts. For an individual spending 70% on living costs and
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Probably, I always wondered but hadn't found anything from a cursory search - thanks.
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by miscreanity 8y ago
As I pointed out: entities involved in regulatory capture. Money creation through debt is another topic, but still benefits primarily the same parties.
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Regulation inevitably squeezes it into government one way or another. The only long-term beneficiaries are the government itself which constantly requires more funding through any means possible, and those involved in regulatory capture - t
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Thank you for the supporting information showing that both temperatures and sea levels during the pre-industrial era have been higher than they are now. Everything has a cycle - those swings in temperatures and sea levels over the past 20,0

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