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Europe != Obscure department of the European Commission issuing unsolicited opinions

I think it's impossible to have a pro-choice viewpoint in discussion websites. People get too nervous and defensive.

I didn't say anything about the rich. A vaccine costs pounds, everyone can afford it. Only thing preventing you from being covid protected is a random lazy bureaucrat in Brussels.

Good. But at the same time it should be possible to buy through private channels. So we can circumvent and get rid of the terribly inefficient bureaucrats.

Exactly. He could donate 99% of his wealth, and still be billionaire.

Yet he won't do that, he asks others to fix the public finances. While doing virtue signalling in public about equality.

His company, along with google and Facebook are the biggest tax dodgers on earth.

You see totally different demographics between software design/development and the politics of software.

In this letter I see names that have never done anything significant, yet they feel entitled to correct one of the forefathers of software development.

We can compare the audience of an flamewar post about racism in US, vs the readership of a paper on fixed point theorems, and it makes sense that organizations that don't care about science like US universities choose to favor the former.

From a business perspective it must be more lucrative to select candidates by their cultural projection and the money connections than on the basis of academic potential.

I suppose that is true for MIT, for mainstream media, and for US corporations.

Well you paint a very gloomy dystopian picture, with scarcity and fighting for every square inch.

This issue is present in any political system, even full egalitarianism, increase population by an arbitrary amount to reduce land per citizen to an epsilon.

Provided you are a good neighbour, it will always be possible to find space to rent at the marginal cost, without a rent-seeking political class.

Who said we won't have nukes?

Okay, you claim 50% taxation is beneficial for all. It's highly debatable.

But the point it's that taxes should be phrased and understood for what they are, a whitewashed extortion. It has no proportion at all with costs of running a rule of law society. Be grateful that we take just 50% from you because we could take everything!

I know, I understand. Societies become mafias and they start extorting high-income individuals to guarantee the peace and the welfare.

I just applaud fair countries that don't extort their own citizens.

I enter all of these interactions voluntarily

I choose the family, I choose the job, I choose what I consume and where I live

Unfortunately I can't walk away from being stolen 50% of my revenues every year.

Use the terminology you like. If it makes you feel better this set of words, it's fine by me!

No individual owes anything to the bigger group. That's the principle. In practice you see a lot of abuse, sadly.

Why? Nobody, poor or wealthy, need to be a servant of any government.

Sounds awesome. Citizens don't owe anything to the government, we shouldn't be born with a liability towards the government, we should be born free and be in total control of our finances, and be free to choose the hosting city that offers us the most.

How will people be happy today?

https://dtdg.co/pypi

pypi servers receive 1 million requests per minute. That's likely more than wikipedia.

Wikipedia quality has actually gone down since the donation campaigns started.

A website like pypi gets much more server load and they have never asked for a penny.

Okay, so they looked for correlations with a million conditions and when they found a vaguely significant one they automatically suspended the vaccination campaign prolonging by days or weeks the national lockdown.

Good metaphor of what the EU represents. A 120 pages manual on how to be a completely dull person.

Reddit is the only social media that falls so low as to regularly display lynchings and beatings on the front page. "JusticeServed", and other cheap justifications for violence. Reddit and Twitter the biggest dumps of the internet.

I will never gonna financially recover from this..

Whatever the results say, women are discriminated and they need a pay rise and more acknowledgement. Data will say whatever we tell them.

Or simply that boys don't take education seriously until 10 years later?

How does Brexit even matter if border checks are suspended for imports?

Just the usual scaremongering.

I also shop at Tesco and the stocks haven't changed at all.

The Google killer!

Proceeds to introduce you grep.

Uber drivers pay next to no taxes at the moment.. A chat with with them will confirm it.

They don't pay VAT (revenue under 80k). They are self-employed, so corporate tax does not apply. They pay a 10% in National insurance.

And on income they pay for the 10k to 30k tier, at 20%.

Compare this with a normal company hiring staff. Tax burden doubles just with addition of VAT.