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> What's the point of high income when you have to use it to buy things you otherwise get as part of the package anyway

it doesn't just cancel out though. software devs in the states make much more money, to the point where you can easily afford the things that the government would provide you in europe. plus you obviously have to pay for those things through taxes anyway, and guess who pays the lions share of that. if you are in a high income bracket, you are always going to pay more in than you get back in direct services.

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> where you can easily afford the things that the government would provide you in europe

Call me when the SF metro holds a candle to Berlin. Or really, any functioning city.

Gauntlet thrown. Transit in SF is a trainwreck. And you're not gonna fix it with your big big paycheck.

As someone who regularly rides Uber Black around SF and the S-Bahn around Berlin - you’re wrong.

So what you're saying is... trains in SF... are a wreckage, and unusable. And you use a hyper-capitialized burning-someone-else's-money "disruptive" "startup" and would like to pretend it's comparable to having a functioning social service.

Well, okay.

I also regularly uber around in SF. Because there's no alternative. And yet: even ignoring dollar cost, I'd say it's comically, pathetically slow to get around the city compared to what a functioning mass transit system should be able to do. SF is tiny, geographically speaking; the time it takes to cover ground in SF using a car is a travesty, and more ubering will not make this better, unless we get a new ultra-high-cost variant which has rockets to blast the other traffic off the road like some terrible action movie come to life.

I don't need to, because it isn't the >complete< trainweck everyone claims it to be.

You'd have to reach a very high salary before you can buy a presidential election or gun control laws (stuff I think GP was alluding to in their post)

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