Gregor Schlachthof

@freymakesstuff @designbymeris @denisyurchak My point is, as a solo entrepreneur in Austria, 83k is not middle income. It is on the better side.

@GSchlachthof @designbymeris @denisyurchak Mind you those 83k are income, not profit. Expenses are not zero. I'm also not sure I'm getting your point

My business is registered in Austria, and it's probably the worst place in Europe for solopreneurs You will pay 50% of all your income when you reach €83k/year (which is a very mid income for Austria) The social security system in Austria is progressive as well It caps at €90k a year, but expect to pay 40% of your income as social security benefits The funniest part? It covers even less than the regular employee insurance. You'll still need to pay 30% of the cost of your doctor visits, while employees receive coverage at no cost. The system rips you off and discourages you from visiting doctors and caring about your health. High PIT and social security are the reasons why a lot of businesses in Austria go cash and hide money from the state. This obviously only works for physical businesses and things like coaching or consulting. As an owner of a digital business, you have no choice but to carry the whole burden of the system. The system wants you to create a GmbH (local LLC), hire yourself and employees, and pay them a salary. Obviously, this is not an option when you just want to build businesses solo. All of the Austrian solo founders I know are not tax residents here anymore and live elsewhere. If I were to start over, I wouldn't pick to build a business in Austria On the screenshot: the bill I got from Social Security yesterday

@khnh80044 Doesen‘t work when you are not naturally beautiful

Small lips, undefined eyebrows, no exaggerated cheekbones, a smile without veneers or teeth that look like they've been washed with dish soap, no false eyelashes, natural hair color. Let's go back to basics.

@designbymeris @denisyurchak Maybe in the SaaS bubble, but real economy looks different

@GSchlachthof @denisyurchak 83k IS low, because it’s gross as a solopreneur. So you still cut off almost 50% of it if you’re living in Austria. For a nice cushy office job net 83k is a different story, and I think you mixed up those.

@denisyurchak You are living in a bubble

@GSchlachthof Agree it’s low

@TheChiefNerd David Sucks

SACKS: “We're really lucky that [Trump] is President … when this AI revolution is happening.” JASON: “What would happen if Kamala ‘Ding Dong’ was in right now?” SACKS: “We'd have no data centers, they'd be using AI to censor us, and they'd be promoting DEI values through AI.”

@sporadica prompt engineer

jobs left after the singularity:

@RadicalFalk What hypocrisy. You criticize a country you don't even live in anymore just to feed the anti-EU sentiment that the X algorithm thrives on.

I'm leaving Germany | Brutally Honest Review

@zoyevans no

Can I wear this on our date 🤔, yes or no?

@ryancduff He‘s an excellent comedian

This is one of the fakest and gayest videos of Andrew Tate I’ve ever seen. I’m sorry, but I can’t take this guy seriously 😂

Trump will be rememberd starting WW3

@georgenjoroge_ That is from a video game, stupid

This is what air superiority looks like. 🇺🇸✈️ An Iranian missile locked on, tracking, closing fast. The American pilot didn’t panic. Years of training kicked in, the missile lost its solution and the jet climbed away clean. x.com/AlBuffalo2nite…

@tedcruz Wait, he said communist, he must be wright

You are a communist who hates America.

@shaunmmaguire Sorry, no it won‘t

This is not WW3 This is the end of a tyrannical regime that has held its entire neighborhood hostage for 47 years Iran’s weapon systems have been systematically degraded over the last 2.5 years This will be swift and decisive

@christianmiele Thats so naive. This will not be a fast regime change.

Crossing my fingers that our partners and friends in the United States and Israel carry out a successful and smooth operation in Iran. Hoping it leads to an end to the Iranian terror regime’s oppressive actions and freedom for the Iranian people. Hope it will be done fast so the innocent people won’t be affected too much.

@BillAckman @realDonaldTrump He and your fellows will be rememberd as the persons starting WW3

President @realDonaldTrump will go down in history as one of the greatest and most consequential presidents we have ever had. His ability and willingness to make bold and consequential decisions for the benefit of future generations based on the hard and cold facts at hand rather than short-term political considerations is one of his greatest strengths. No longer are we governed by the politics of the weak who have brought us close to the edge with their weakness and self-interested short-termism. God bless our nation, our military, and our president. Let’s all pray for our troops who risk their lives on behalf of all of us so we can look forward to a world where evil is eliminated and good prevails. What we do in life echoes in eternity.

@joni_vrbt Half of the semiconductor supply chain,all the machines that build machines and a lot more.

USA has ChatGPT USA has Grok USA has Claude USA has Gemini USA has Llama USA has Copilot China has DeepSeek China has Qwen China has Ernie China has GLM China has Kimi China has MiniMax Europe has?

@r0ck3t23 Lie. He never was left. It was just a fassad to be cool in SF.

Peter Thiel just explained why the most consequential builder on earth had to leave the political left to keep building. Thiel: “I’ve known Elon since 2000. Almost 25 years.” For two decades, Musk was perfectly aligned. Tesla was the ultimate clean energy company. Left of center by every measure. Then the culture shifted underneath him. Thiel: “There’s this sort of straitjacket where you’re not allowed to have ideas. Even if you agree with 80%, it’s never enough.” Total compliance. Or you’re out. That demand is manageable when the stakes are low. Look at the stakes right now. We are three years away from matching human intelligence. We are scaling synthetic neural networks we cannot see inside. The architects of the industry are fracturing their own companies over alignment. When the stakes are the survival of the species, ideological compliance becomes an existential liability. We are in the middle of a winner-take-all geopolitical race for AI supremacy. Our global competitors are scaling compute with no ideological constraints. No compliance requirements. No cultural gatekeepers deciding which ideas are permitted. They are just building. America cannot win that race from inside a straitjacket. You cannot engineer the next layer of human civilization in a culture that punishes divergent thinking. You cannot solve human obsolescence, post-scarcity economics, and the alignment of a god-like intelligence while walking on ideological eggshells. The builders who are going to determine the future of this biology need to be able to think thoughts that make legacy institutions wildly uncomfortable. That is not a luxury. That is the requirement. Musk didn’t abandon his mission. He abandoned the containment zone that was making the mission impossible. The straitjacket didn’t stop fitting him. He outgrew it.

@MarioNawfal When your hole life depends on selling fear, Mario

🇩🇪🇨🇳 Chancellor Merz says Germany needs to “work harder,” pointing to China as the new productivity role model. Times like these: where the Chancellor says Germans' work ethics should be more Chinese.

@marcfriedrich When your hole life depends on selling fear

When you realize you country, your whole continent is fucked