I have friends who work at gentrified restaurants in Budapest and they tell me the owners pocket all the tips. Only American tourists tip haha.
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Their taxes are high because cronyism is pervasive and society is structure in a rigid caste-based hierarchy.
It's about keeping western capital interests in line, stopping developing nations from nationalizing key resources etc. Bolivia is a good example of a country that has persisted against it.
Have you ever lived in the developing world?
Reads like a fever dream.
Haven't tried this but it's a Slack alternative from the Basecamp folks, source included and works on airgapped networks.
Second worst offender I have to deal with is Jira web. I've had CTOs tell me they know it's crap but they force their startups to use it from the get-go because it makes getting acquihired easier because the other company likely already uses it. Truly Kafkaesque.
I've never used that forum sorry
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That's pretty nifty.
Also try prepending "Show HN:" to the post title so it gets put in the show tab.
>very few exceptions
You've got it backwards. If you're an American you're probably traveling through freeports or low tax regimes like Singapore, UK, etc. and don't realise how regressive most regimes are. In places like Hungary, Angola, SEA -- where tax can be in the range of 30-50% you will be lucky not to be shaken down by a customs agent before leaving the luggage carousel.
Once upon a time we called this an "archive".