That’s because Europe overall is declining fast. However the rest of the world is rising fast and the next ten years should be interesting from this alone.
You make good points, thanks for sharing. May I also add onto your speculation by saying that Brexit was a symptom of bad governance in general, and the energy crisis is a symptom too.
Using your analogy, it's absolutely unknowable to bacteria, and therefore absolutely unknowable to us. Random is perhaps the most intellectually honest way of describing it, since it is widely accepted that randomness is a feature of relatively uncomplicated systems.
It is about power and inequality, and the system-wide outcomes overall of such moves. We are seeing massive consolidation of wealth at the top. Relaxed attitudes like yours won't slow this down.
I have worked closely over the years with people from Ivy League/Oxbridge schools to small universities from developing countries and I would not put the people from the elite institutions at the top of the rankings of discipline or ability from my experience.
"Narya was backed with about $100mn from Thiel and a cadre of his acquaintances, including former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and prominent venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Scott Dorsey."
I could believe that a lot of people under 20 would not know who Zuckerberg is at all, but definitely know who Messi is, if we are talking outside of the USA. Cristiano Ronaldo would be another.
To add to what to the other poster said, and to help explain, also were you influenced in buying blueberries because of what other people did in your graph?
What is expensive to you? 200EUR works out to a few euros a week. That is fantastic value compared to anything I have experienced in other EU countries in this decade.
Best advice I saw on the topic was a throwaway comment here on HN: "be lucky and don't fuck it up" - the hard work part equates a lot to "don't fuck it up" in my own interpretation of it all. There are many other ways to fuck up, of course, such as letting ego get in the way and so on.
Of the ones above, the FT is perhaps the only respectable one that I can speak of; Liz Truss claiming it is a left wing publication is still hilarious. But have you read the Manchester Evening News lately? The Guardian too has diminished enormously in quality in recent years IMO. For me, the definition of toxic also encompasses the purpose of their work, not just how it is carried out. Newspaper journalists now seem consumed by driving up engagement metrics for particular audience segments and that seems pretty steady across most of the UK news media right now. There are some promising signs of change with new outlets like the Byline Times but the more established media is absolutely inbred and rotten (and dying, if you look at their audience metrics).
Yes, the Murdoch media is vile, but this goes for all of the British papers. The Daily Mail is a wretched place to work but is also the most well respected in the UK in terms of the training they give. That should tell you everything.
"useful for what most men do in life" - What are you referring to here? Because my answer to that would be just going through the motions and not thinking very much about anything, like most women too ("most men" is the bottom half of the bell curve plus a few more).
The root cause might be stagnant productivity. Faced with this, politicians can boost GDP by increasing the population. The root cause would therefore be using GDP growth as the success metric, stagnation in the said metric and an inability to facilitate its growth with anything other than increasing the amount of people in the economy.
The issue is with the requirement of a security. Winheller do phrase it carefully as "in their view" a security is not required, but that would have to be agreed with the tax authorities in advance and there are different opinions on how likely this is without a firm legal ruling from the law courts.
(What I find concerning is the attitude of the German tax authorities in their continual attempts to strengthen and increase the scope of this law. They are always trying to broaden it leaving it to individuals and the courts to push back on them.)
It depends where you go. I believe (but could be mistaken) that there are agreements between countries, especially within the EU, that enable them to go after you. I am also not sure what the statute of limitations is regarding tax-related crimes. But it could be a valid strategy, I guess!
It was also changed in 2021, and subsequent rulings that affect it earlier this year. The Wikipedia article is out of touch with more recent developments.