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he came to me later and asked me to expound. i told him "the formula is: spend less than you make and invest the left over. you do that long enough and you'll become wealthy."
i also told him "from what i can tell, it will happen so gradually that you'll barely notice a difference in your lifestyle. you will just realize one day that you are part of the maligned upper-crust but noone around you will know that."
he called me 2 years ago to let me know that he took my observation to heart and he's now in the millionaire club. he also said "the books say i'm a millionaire, but i certainly don't feel like it."
his next million will be much easier to get now and he just turned 40.
to steelman the assertion, will you pick one of the targets you are referring to and tell us what Israel says about the reason for the target? also, can you discover if Israel warned the people in the building they targeted about the action and gave them time to evacuate?
i understand if you don't want to steelman the assertion, so i'll try to do that for you if you can pick just one action you are referring to.
> friend of mine talked to me about how she could barely see her family in Palestine and that I could get a free trip and citizenship with no connection to the land because I was Jewish.
are you referring to the "Law of Return" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return)?
if so, are you suggesting that this law amounts to "war crimes that happen in clear view"?
why can your friend "barely" see her family? is it that she can't afford a trip but Jews get to go for free paid by the Israeli government?
Please be specific about the laws, actions, and outcomes that resulted in the crime.
not quite as the poster claims. G4S didn't "shift" employees, they hired new people to meet their new demand for covid related work. for these new people, they used employment agencies that were "Recruitment and Employment Confederation accredited and members of the government's Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework."
it appears the accreditation of these new employment companies by the government was lacking.
they conflate "wealth as resource allocation" (business ownership) with "wealth as consumption" (personal individual gain) to show that these people aren't paying their "fair share."
in this case, propublica has the chart showing the "true tax rate" by conflating the two different kinds of wealth.
shouldn't the "true tax rate" account the payroll taxes and business taxes paid by these businesses? if we are going to allocate the ownership of business as part of the wealth calculation, then shouldn't we also allocate the taxes paid by these businesses to the individuals as well?
Delaying until final sale encourages people to keep money in the market. Money in the market is, ostensibly, providing a value to society as good; probably better, than anything government has ever done.
The distinction is "wealth as personal consumption" versus "wealth as resource allocation."
The former is something that only benefits the wealthy person. The latter is something that already benefits society.
Neighbor Storage is building a platform and marketplace for people to store cars and other items in their neighbor's space.
We just secured $53M in series b and have less than 50 people in the company.
If you've wanted to join a startup in the early stages, Neighbor is for you.
If it appeals to you to have the only directive by your manager be "it's your responsibility to figure out what the best use of your time is for the purpose of the company then do that," then Neighbor is the place for you!
I asked my wife, who goes to Maverick every day, if my perception that the shake machine is always broken was accurate and she said "yes. I've never seen it working. I've always wondered why they keep them because they just take up space."
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Who are you talking about when you say "this mentality of earned wealth completely rids the owner of any sense of responsibility"?
https://russroberts.medium.com/do-the-rich-capture-all-the-g...
He also talks about "what happened in 1972" is more about demographic shifts due to divorce, single parent homes, and children leaving home sooner:
Must be willing to work in office in Lehi, UT.
Looking at people with senior experience only at this time.
https://jobs.lever.co/neighbor/45206edf-e661-4ffa-9433-e15ca...
it's quite obvious that if you took all of the value of a company the company would cease to exist along with the benefit they bring to society. you don't want to take all of their value? you just want to take the "fair share"?
how do you know what the "fair share" is that doesn't harm the capacity of the company to continue to provide value? fairness would be they pay for the public goods and services they use. do they employ trucks to deliver their product? then they should pay gas taxes on their deliveries. but, wait, they already do that so we want something _more_ fair than being treated the same as everyone else.
that still leaves us with the unknown of "how much more_than_fair_taxes we should require of a company and be sure not hinder it's ability to provide value?"
The economy is more complex than "look, money, let's take it for government."
If so, you should incorporate +and probably already do if you happen to employ thousands of people) since laws around incorporating are there to encourage people to take the risk of providing these values.
Societies that burden business with taxes generally do not understand that businesses are the lifeblood of economy and draining the lifeblood makes the economy sick.
What I've learned raising children in the internet age is that boys are vulnerable during the formative years to porn addiction and the dopamine spiral that causes humans to seek harder stuff more often.
The girls are more susceptible to depression from social comparison through social media. There is a correlation, perhaps even a causation, with a drastic increase in suicide and self harm attempts of preteen and teen girls and the prevalence of social media consumption.
It shouldn't be too surprising that the formative years, when kids' brains are still developing and most vulnerable to impulse decisions, are formative for actual brain development through experience as well. It doesn't work to treat kids exactly like adults because they aren't as well equiped ad adults to handle adult situations.
Giving up on restrictions to experience and material during these formative years is, imo, like trying to teach children how to responsibly consume meth.
In my case, the answer is to tell them that there are some decisions that should absolutely wait until their prefrontal cortex is fully developed because of the developmental impact it has on them. Until then, there will be restrictions on certain things in this house under my roof.
I try to build a trust relationship that encourages them to be open and honest about what they've been exposed to do what I can help them navigate. And when we've calibrated wrongly, there's also therapy that had proven to be helpful for three of my six kids. It's also not cheap so I feel lucky that I'm able to afford the extra help when needed.
for myself i paid under $250 for my android and i'm a professional full stack developer with android as part of that stack. (essential ph-1 phone on clearance sale on ebay).
when i left facebook i just left and when i left whatsapp i told people about signal two weeks ahead and then just left with that one message.
i think the problem was that i had convinced the patriarch of the group to join me and people wanted to be in contact with him, so the dissatisfaction was directed toward me.
ironically, i was the one who talked down the group from the fearfully dire outlook about social media when we discussed the netflix "documentary" "the social dilemma" a few months back.
i thought the latter part of the documentary that had the predictions of our society being destroyed because of the revelations exposed about what social media is doing to us was cringe and i explained to the group why.
OTOH, i told people "yeah, the first part is totally true and not a revelation. they are absolutely hacking your social biology to get you more engaged in what they have to offer. it's not a surprise to anyone really as the ML systems and technology that optimize for that are well understood and pretty standard. heck, i've even written some of those algorithms myself."
that's actually part of why i left facebook. i realized that i had become complacent about things i should not have become complacent about.
fwiw, my productivity and happiness have increased dramatically since i left facebook/whatsapp. YMMV
that's the only time i was consciously effected by advertisement, but i also suspect the mind bending happens so much on a sub-conscious level.
I then deleted my whatsapp account.
There was much wailing and grumpiness and some refusals to join me because people didn't want to use a new chat app. I was genuinely surprised that whatsapp had become so sticky for these people and had to mea culpa to smooth things over.