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by mmarq 4y ago
I’ve been saying for years that we should reduce taxes on work and increase taxes on assets and consumption. At the current level of taxation, accumulating wealth through work is out of the grasp of 95% of the population (at least in the UK
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Oh, no, I see what you are doing, but I mentioned Germany, France, Spain and Greece. I come from central Italy and that’s the part of the world I know best. I’m saying that the UK outside Inner London doesn’t look European, but it’s a gigan
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> I’m laughing at the replies to your comments lol. I’m here to spread the truth that everybody knows, I’m here to teach them. > Didn’t you know that while all your statements might be subjectively correct, it’s only the Brits themsel
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by mmarq 4y ago
If Rome and Paris and Florence are in the Champions League of beauty and Milan is in second division, Manchester is a funny non-league football team that once in its history got through round 1 of the FA cup and then lost 7-0 against a prem
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by mmarq 4y ago
OMG, a friend convinced my girlfriend to spend a weekend in the Cotswolds, allegedly the best place in England or whatever. I’ve never been in a more isolated, yet overcrowded and noisy place in my entire existence. The quality of housing i
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by mmarq 4y ago
If you don’t know what Verona is, you probably spent your entire existence under a rock. One would have to complete primary school to know that Tivoli or Capri exist. You are right, Orvieto may be only for the very learned. The West Country
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by mmarq 4y ago
Saying that Manchester is uglier than Florence and that Italian food is better than English food are not insults, but a factual statements. I’m in Inner London because I have a very high paying job, that allowed me to buy a nice flat in a n
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by mmarq 4y ago
No, I’m not. They aren’t particularly beautiful and, outside of the UK, people don’t even know what these places are, for a reason. Compare to, in random order, Verona, Rome, Florence or Pisa or Orvieto or the Tuscan countryside or Tivoli o
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by mmarq 4y ago
I don’t mean to be dismissive, but if you come from southern/central Italy (or Spain or Greece, etc…), your idea of good food is significantly different from that of the English.
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by mmarq 4y ago
I haven’t been in Scotland, but I’ve been told Edinburgh is a very nice city. I visited England and Wales for work and I went to Belfast a few times. I visited all the English cities in your list and they aren’t in the same league of random
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by mmarq 4y ago
Not that there’s much to see outside of zone 2, but I’ve actually spent 3-4 years travelling across the UK and it was very very different from travelling across Europe, and not in a good way.
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by mmarq 4y ago
I’ve actually visited half the country, when I worked as a consultant. Weather in the north is horrid, much worse than in London, food is appalling in ways that can’t be described, pubs are all the same replica of a Wetherspoon or of a Youn
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by mmarq 4y ago
In the rest of the UK, you’d get a lower salary than in central Italy and possibly East Germany (I haven’t checked the latter). Inner London is different from the rest of the country because it’s the only part that looks like Western Europe
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by mmarq 4y ago
Just don’t, you don’t want to spend days fighting with the Home Office every other year to renew your visa, for the questionable privilege of making 70-80K pa in London, where a two bedroom apartment cost half your salary. I strongly advise
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by mmarq 4y ago
It’s not just low cost areas, with half a Bay Area salary you can hire top talent in London, where a very good principal/senior makes 120-130K.
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by mmarq 4y ago
I wouldn’t worry about becoming unemployable, while I deem crypto a predatory business, you haven’t worked for the Gestapo and I wouldn’t hold it against you. But, given the whole thing may collapse anytime, I’d sharpen my interview skills
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by mmarq 4y ago
The BBC is one of the few news and content outlets that survived the Great Cataclysm that destroyed British journalism and turned The Telegraph and The Times in tabloids that publish articles about Theresa May being sexy or BP conspiring to
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by mmarq 4y ago
> I don't really understand the UK government. They need some crazy headlines to try to win the next by elections. When the pensioners will realise that they have to identify themselves to watch porn, the bill will be retracted.
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by mmarq 4y ago
Even if it were 80% it would not be socialism
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The UK legislators want to replace GDPR with a watered down version that only applies to the UK. Their claim is that this will allow businesses to save money on compliance. (Me: Companies in Brazil, Australia and the US comply with GDPR, so
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by mmarq 4y ago
Ministers have proposed the DNT header
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GDPR, that still applies to the UK, doesn’t allow dark patterns, people who use them are just waiting for the regulator to call them. Been there, done that.
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Still it’s not socialism and still you won’t pay 60% of your income in tax
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None of these things are socialist. Besides, you don’t pay 60% of your income in taxes anywhere.
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by mmarq 4y ago
A huge component of American and British inflation is endogenous (stimulus checks, loose monetary policy, etc…). Both the central bank and the government can and should do something about it. Core inflation in the UK is 6.2%, in the US is 6
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by mmarq 4y ago
The Fed missed the chance to act quickly in November/December and now it has to show commitment to bring inflation down before it spirals out of control. In the US and the UK, the current burst in inflation is more endogenous than it i
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> people who had been comfortably part of the upper middle class would lose EVERYTHING, and in many cases end up starving to death The upper middle class own non-monetary assets, they are probably the least affected by inflation. > Fo
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I am going to say that you sound a bit confused. > But as we consider the inflation we are seeing today, try to imagine how it would be if the inflation is not 5-10% but 29500% Hitler took power 10 years after the hyperinflation. People
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Nothing can be worse than the London private rental market
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> When German people in 1922 became angry because most jews had enough money for food, while many Germans went hungry Even if this were true, and it isn’t, people didn’t start believing in anti-Jewish propaganda because the Jews had more

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