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There is a difference between abusing people to generate money and spending money to hurt people

There are loads of area’s where you can get around without a car, which increases area’s to be outside and meet others.

For a lot of people including me it is a choice to use the car as much as we do.

A very small amount need massive pickup truck in the first place. Trailers or vans are generally more efficient in different metrics.

But banning them completely is hard, hence I suggest banning them for individuals at first

These vehciles should be banned for personal use and only allow businesses to buy them. That will reduce the amount of morons doong shit like this

Well yeah, but there is a difference in the US where Amazon is your best bet to get things quickly and cheaply while in Europe smaller stores can offer similar prices and often they also do next day delivery. Especially in The Netherlands

They are German as far as I am aware, but that doesnt mean they do the same crap in Europe as they do in the US hence my question

Sorry to lazy to go through articles like this, do they mention if this is just in the US or something? Or do they also do this in the EU?

A very small localised to American group of humanity probably

And changed over the centuries

Pretty sure they are just being a bunch of racists and generalising everybody, but okey

Pretty sure this goes for more than the white a holes

Not really related, but where did this whole workout trend come from? What is the issue with traditional sports?

Sorry but I don’t follow you.

But yes we should listen to sciencists and other experts.

The minimum wage thing I can explain, in companies where a big part of the direct cost is the wage of the people working there (the service industries like restaurants or accountants etc). Increasing the wage will also increase the price of the services (or goods) they sell. If costs go up they will either have to eat the loss, which is unsustainable or increase prices. Which is what a lot of restaurants have been doing especially since covid. Hence we are paying 3,5+ € for a beer here in The Netherlands.

A way to fix this is to give those people who need it suplemental income using social security. Same way as that the government here in NL pays companies money when they have somebody on parantal leave.

Another downside of reasining the minimum income is that in a lot of countries and or companies the higher wages are based on minimum wage. Often adding a certain percentage on top. So raising the minimum wage will also increase those.

I am all for everyone being able to afford all the basic plus have money extra for fun shir and that’s why I am all for an universal income, but I don’t dig the minimum wage income. However, minimum wage should increase at minimum with inflation until there is a UBI and then even that should increase with inflation.

Yea you are right some people cannot do that, but there are a shit ton of people in first world non corrupt countries who literally waste money.

Some people need to hear that buying the cheapest thing is the right to do when they don’t have a choice, but some other group of people need the financial advice to do shit properly.

Telling people that buying the cheapest thing is good for some, but financially hurting others who can afford to spend 5 bucks instead of 1 on a better knife or whatnot.

We can have a whole other discussion about raising minimum wage cause that will drive costs up in certain sectors even more. Government’s need to step in and increase minimum INCOME. UBI etc.

Edit: i have seen people waste money on terrible products when they could afford better. There is a group of people who has the money but never really learned how to save and spend it properly to get the most out if it. Buying plastic plates every week or so is way more expensive than buying an actual plate.

Marginal tax is the percentage calculated using the following formula:

(Tax paid + missed social security benefits) / income before tax.

It basically means that the missing of social security will impact the middle class a lot more than the rich percentage wise.

Not sure what statistics you are talking about

Generally the slightly more expensive shit is cheaper in the long run that’s the thing. And some people choose to spend more money buying shit om Amazon/Aliexpress/Wish etc instead of buying something similar locally.

Not Just Bikes makes a great video how the cheaper options like Walmart are actively destroying America. Partially because they more their profits to a company outside the US and partially because they remove jobs.

But yeah, shit is hard to fix in corrupt countries.

Not the person you responded to, but personally I just went Truenas scale on baremetal and it worked really well. Currently they also work with docker so setting up additional apps is really easy as well.

Not Just Bikes made a video about how American chains are just killing the US

That depends a bit on the situation, I have seen some people from rich companies who learned things like in the quote from Sir Terry Pratchett, aka the cheapest is not always the best option.

Some people also got rich in the first place because they either studied hard and got to be a specialist earning hundreds of thousands a year for their job and others just came with the right invention in the right time, and we overpaid for it. You see that especially in tech where the costs where generally pretty low (especially bookkeeping wise since the original owner's hours are generally not added in the bookkeeping) and they sold it for a lot.

It also works the other way around, if you choose to spend your money on cheap supplies (because you are shortsighted) it will cost you more money in the long run.

A lot of people need to learn how to use their money effectively, and budgeting can help for some.