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aeon
@AeonCoin
Innovative, mobile-friendly, private, highly-scalable. Aeon isn't a cryptocurrency. It's a lifestyle. Are you ready for Aeon? Retweets not endorsement.
Katılım Haziran 2014
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There is definitely an inverse correlation between net worth and attachment to reality.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Bezos on Trump: "I think he's a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term. Trump has lots of good ideas. He's been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due."
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Is it just me or has Bitcoin just died?
If you look at a 5 year chart it’s up about 20% since it’s high in 2021.
Annualized that’s about 4% a year.
I can find a boring dividend stock that’s doubled this return.
I thought this was supposed to save us 😀
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Never mind about the Rolex… had no idea buying one was like buying a Ferrari, where you have to beg, jump though hoops and then buy products you don’t want to get the one you do want! 😂
thought it would be fun to own, but would much prefer to just order something on a website (like a Tesla!) and be done with it.
These retail and reseller channels make things far too time consuming
Is there a nice watch I can just… order?
@jason@Jason
I would like to purchase this @ROLEX
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I mean, are we not backing up the truck on 2.82% REAL yield on a 30-year TIPS? Baffling how this continues to be one of the most hated asset classes in advisor portfolios...
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I have never spent $28 for lunch in my entire life...
What are you people doing?
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z is financially cooked when people making $70K a year are spending $28 on lunch
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I'm genuinely curious how X got the compute capacity to sell $1.5B/month to Anthropic.
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@nobodyknows2322 @AndrewJ132 @Empty_America Correct, there were so few jobs that illegal immigration (of which restaurants are one of the largest employment sectors) went negative.
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@AndrewJ132 @Empty_America It was also cheap *because demand was low*. Everybody was broke!
Why does everybody keep leaving out the demand side ?
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Eating out in America would also be very cheap if we allowed in great number of 3rd world food cart entrepreneurs and so forth.
It's a thing we can do right now if you want.
J-Posadas@solidarityhours
I've lived in so-called "third world countries" and eating out for breakfast and lunch regularly is not unheard of for normal working class ppl. Americans truly know no floor to the race to the bottom of accepting lowering living standards.
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@JamesSurowiecki Most people not getting insurance from ACA naturally wish they could go back, but only because the prices were lower. ACA itself had really nothing to do with it.
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aeon@AeonCoin
@Not_so_Ernest @LauraLaurat1966 @politicalmath Dafuq do you think ACA did here? The box shows the years when ACA passed to when it was fully implemented
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The tens of millions of people who could not get insurance before Obamacare most definitely do not wish they could go back to those days.
Acyn@Acyn
Gutfeld: Healthcare wasn't perfect before Obamacare, oh, but you wish you could go back to those days, don't you? Don't you?
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@CoreyLeander @jdcmedlock But the overall progressively of the entire system comes more from using the revenue to fund benefits that are helpful to lower income people.
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@CoreyLeander @jdcmedlock There are exceptions but most countries with a VAT don't explicitly rebate it based on income (or universally, which would be similar). There are often adjustments like downrating zero rating certain goods which makes it somewhat more progressive.
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The US has one of the most progressive tax codes on paper. But our tax and transfer system reduces inequality far less than countries with broader tax systems.
Tax cuts can't help people who don't have an income, but a generous tax financed welfare state can.
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.
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@DerekPederson3 @MonicaBaumann That's one fact pattern. An abusive transphobic parent or parents is another. I see merit in leaving some discretion to the particular school and/or educator.
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On the flip side how would you feel if your son were struggling with gender issues and in consultation with clinical psychologists you were trying to get him to desist into a male identity and then you found out that the school had allowed him to socially transition behind your back?
We’re talking about very young kids here—elementary and middle school.
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Only 8 Democrats voted to block public schools from changing a child's official gender identity unless they have the parents' consent?
The idea that parents don't need to be involved in such decisions is crazy!
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@CoreyLeander @jdcmedlock Taxing consumption is, all else being equal, less progressive than taxing income (though you can adjust for that in making other policy decision)
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@jdcmedlock That's because European countries tax consumption more, which is what actually matters for inequality.
Also, what inequality are you measuring? Income inequality? Wealth inequality?
Wealth inequality is next to meaningless I would argue!
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@ItJustSays314 @anymanfitness Probably true in terms of data collection and trying to get you to go there more, but the fact remains you can get lower prices every day with the app. You don't need to collect points.
For example, $5 meal deal everyday: McDouble or chicken sandwich, fries, small coke.
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@AeonCoin @anymanfitness Isn’t that just McDonald’s way of making you the product, racking up points that can only be used there?
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A few theories:
We decided they should make $15 an hour.
Or
Our gov started printing $$$ like we’re playing Monopoly.
yellow sharpie@yellowsharpie37
@anymanfitness I think the bigger question is why do places like McDonald’s and chipotle cost 30 dollars for a lunch. We don’t care if you can afford it or you want it or whatever nonsense people are arguing over. How did we get here?
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@EmbracingTara A Chipotle burrito in downtown SF with the $20 California minimum wage is $11.65.
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Chipotle burritos cost $17 because the market supports $17 burritos
If everyone said, I'm not paying $17 for a burrito, fuck that, Chipotle burritos wouldn't cost $17.
Chipotle burritos cost me $0.00. Do you know why? I choose not to purchase them.
Is this clocking at all?
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@ItJustSays314 @anymanfitness Many discount offers and special prices that you don't see on the regular menu.
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@AeonCoin @anymanfitness I haven’t been to McDonald’s in like ten years. What’s so special about using the app.
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@johngagliardo @eisingerj A large number of tax returns were leaked. Shouldn't happen, but it did.
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@eisingerj How are you able to illegally access private tax records from the IRS of a fellow private citizen?
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The facts:
-Bezos paid $0 fed'l income tax in 2007
-He paid $0 in '11
-Btn '14-19, his wealth grew by $99 BILLION and he paid $973 million in taxes.
Sounds like a lot but it's 0.98% of his wealth growth (which is his true income).
Squawk Box@SquawkCNBC
"People sometimes say that I don't pay taxes. It's not true. I paid billions of dollars in taxes," says @JeffBezos. "That's not going to solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens."
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Yes, the benefit we get from billionaires' businesses is way more than we get from their charity and still way, way more than we get from their tax contributions.
CNBC@CNBC
Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."
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@SteveOnSpeed It's not un-American. America has had property taxes, which are taxes on wealth, for its entire history. It's the income tax that is a relatively new thing (though not really that new, of course).
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