@Jkn04433605 @sapitonmix @LukasSeltsam Baltic politics is agile and has made good choices in spite of demographics, not because of it. Poland is extremely ethnically and linguistically homogenous compared to Estonia or Latvia, for example.
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Oscar Sims
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Oscar Sims
@oscarcsims
Just here for the agglomeration effects. Cities, tech, social democracy. 🇳🇿 🇫🇮
Melbourne, Victoria Inscrit le Ağustos 2013
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@sapitonmix @LukasSeltsam Like 30–50% of people in Baltics live in the capital or big metropolitan area, compared to about 10% in Poland. They need fewer logistics hubs to reach a large share of the population, and their smaller size makes there politics much more agile and faster to adapt.
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I’m actually super happy that Poland is an online economic darling, because this ensures a certain class of chudoids completely omit jerking off to Lithuania and Estonia, which have achieved similar levels of prosperity.
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Tallinn is an awesome city. It is probably the European city with the biggest share of very new development out of all those I have visited, and the architecture is generally very tasteful as well. A big difference from the Czech Republic, where most new buildings are boring as hell. Vilnius is also very impressive. Riga much less so, though.
Tantric Turanist 🇫🇮🇺🇦@cornu__copia
🇪🇪 Tallinn looked a bit different when I visited here for the first time in 2005 or so
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Okay so at 4am we had several lightning strikes a minute with thunder loud enough to set off car alarms. Now it's going up to 40
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@oscarcsims @taipan168 New Zealand has no capital gains tax, so obviously you're an idiot for leaving Auckland
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I have always been a huge optimist on Australia's future, but the recent budget on top of the retrograde economic steps taken by the ALP since 2022 have made me increasingly pessimistic.
Young, smart Aussies should leave and only come back once they've made their money.
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@AbsentHog by 'online' are you referring to tiktoks with dating advice or dating apps
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The answer is more or less "the traits that keep a partner and require authenticity are not what cuts through online" with a mix of "some advice is knowingly or recklessly bad" right?
derek guy@dieworkwear
All the dating advice I read here seems so strange to me. Why not develop yourself as a person, learn to be kind, and find hobbies and interests you're passionate about, and then find someone who is compatible with you and your lifestyle? Why fake being a different person?
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@ShinMarginalScr @RedGreenBC being a football fan in Australia is crazy because it was an incredible struggle to find a pub playing the domestic league *final* ahead of like, some random mid-season AFL/NRL/Super Rugby games - and then the national team is going to make the World Cup knockouts
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@RedGreenBC Football isn’t even all that popular in Australia and they’re easily the best football team in Asia-Pacific after Japan and maybe South Korea and Iran where the sport is far more popular.
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Messi isn't a good example of this imo, even Gretzky is clearer at the top. This is a better description of Esther Vergeer (wheelchair tennis), Marion Tinsley (checkers), Jim Thorpe (damn near everything, or (correct me if I'm wrong, not a big cricket guy) Donald Bradman.
Anthony Eden hate account@areyouawitchor2
Is there a Messi-equivalent in another sport? Someone who’s so obviously the goat, who’s just so good, never washed and so clear of everyone else?? It’s just unbelievable watching him still play like this
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@taipan168 Again I'm just not sure this is that meaningful. I would like to start a business at some point, and I would likely do it in Australia for a variety of reasons despite the tax treatment back home being more favourable.
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@oscarcsims There's also the opportunity cost that we will never see of businesses that are never set up/not grown or Australians or foreigners who didn't bring their businesses back to Australia as a result of these CGT changes.
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@MattZeitlin it would improve the quality of trans-Atlantic discourse tremendously if there was some recognition that 'Europe' as a category includes both upper-middle class Norwegians and working-class Bulgarians
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People have really taken the europoor meme way too literally, there are lots of affluent Europeans with lots of vacation time
technology sista (aspiring)@typeclonghouse
bruh i didnt realize europeans are actually spending multiple weeks on vacation here for the world cup how can they afford it?
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@taipan168 @disco___cat @theloneamigo you can make a similar argument about the Baltics (low tax, simple regulations, good English, good startup scene) but most people think I'm insane when I tell them I lived in Estonia for ~18 months. And it has none of the civil liberties (or war) problems of the UAE
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@disco___cat @theloneamigo It's actually one of the most dynamic places in which to do business, but with obvious trade-offs.
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Aside from the highly questionable tax maths… the UAE?
Has your friend’s son looked at the news in the past six months?
taipan168@taipan168
The son of a friend of mine founded a business that is growing rapidly which can be run from anywhere. He travels a lot for it and is now actively thinking of moving it to Singapore or the UAE following the ALP's insane CGT lest he lose 47% on sale. Great move. Well done, Jim.
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@taipan168 Contrast this with, say, Ireland, where fully half of their graduating classes of doctors move to Melbourne and Perth
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@taipan168 So my question is: if we are talking about a very small fraction of graduates moving to the US to work at big tech or whatever, why should that determine tax policy? I'm personally ambivalent about the changes but I don't think the number of people who will move is meaningful
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@taipan168 I just don't think the details tax policy matters as much as people think for immigration. I paid substantially lower taxes in Estonia! and lots of Kiwi and Australian lawyers move to London even though they will pay much higher taxes
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@taipan168 I'm aware - I immigrated here at least in part to keep the possibility of getting an E-3 visa open in the future - but it's interesting to think about why that quota doesn't get filled
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@taipan168 either it's "good luck getting a visa" (and "good luck finding housing" in the case of Singapore) or you have to live in the UAE
it's also just not clear to me that e.g. Singapore is really more entrepreneurial than Australia
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@_night_brain__ this is already basically the case in club football, a Qatari sovereign wealth fund beat a regime-affiliated US holding company for the Champions League title this year
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They should let SOEs field WC teams. I want to see how badly Aramco gets battered by China Railway Construction Engineering Group
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7 PMs in less than ten years - I'm extremely sceptical that Andy Burnham has the iron in him to avoid the same fate
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Oscar Sims retweeté
If ever there’s a picture to sum up today, it’s this.
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