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My mom has a small business in Germany making 300k in revenue per year.
- 150k are taxes,
- 25k in tax attorney costs
- a full work week for tax related bureaucracy
- 50k for Employees (and their taxes)
- 30-50k for goods
So she's left with 20-50k for working 60h a week. Dope.
This is how you destroy the middle class and the foundation for generational wealth, growth and prosperity.
Oh and Germany has 5m public servants (out of 45m working age)
Peer Richelsen@peer_rich
its always “work harder” and never “lets make it easier for you to be productive” businesses in germany struggle under bureaucracy and regulations employees struggle under 42% tax rate fix those before telling us to work harder
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@thedorbrothers @AutismCapital @LinusEkenstam @minchoi @AngryTomtweets @MattWalshBlog @ianmiles @Rainmaker1973 @joerogan @DarrenAronofsky 100% AI, 100% pure trash
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@CaolanReports @TateTheTalisman You just have to ignore him. You give these morons more fuel by replying...and you cause them to come up in people's feeds that follow you. You change nothing by replying and just cause more people to see their posts.
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@randomARK95 @BonkDaCarnivore My dad owns a Tesla and after 6 years the battery is dead. Tesla replaced it with a recycled battery and there's 2 years left on the warranty, now with a recycled battery. He's less keen on Tesla now. People need time to find out. 3 years ago I had shares, now I have puts.
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I get asked this a lot. Almost every time I do an economic space, in fact. "Why do you hate $TSLA so much?"
It's all a scam, from every angle. Anyone who has access to Tesla insiders will hear the same story from them: The whole Optimus experiment is largely a fraud. Every notable executive on the project has left the company, and the vast majority of the engineers took off, too. Every demo of Optimus was telecontrolled by a human in a nearby room - the robots themselves have absolutely no autonomous capabilities and are years behind their competitors. This isn't "inside information", this is something various engineers have said and Tesla has admitted; what I've heard from former executives largely just serves to validate what has been said publicly as "understating the problem".
Nobody wants their cars. Robotic taxi service is going to become a commodity service, and Tesla is way behind its competition there with no path to close the gap. The solar roofs were a great idea executed terribly (I have the solar roofs on multiple properties, and they're great, but I'd never buy another one because of the Tesla factor). The only interesting vertical in the entire company is the power delivery unit. It's growing at a VERY healthy clip, but the margins aren't there and at best help wipe away some of the NEGATIVE value of the company in other verticals.
Tesla is a stock that is buoyed by nothing more than dumb money that keeps piling in to it and a CEO that gets away with making fraudulent claim after fraudulent claim with no repercussions. It has a useless board that won't keep him in check, and instead allows him to continue consolidating power when he's run the company terribly over the last few years.
And THAT'S why I shorted it heavily at the end of 2024 (and made a fortune doing so) and why I again shorted it at the end of 2025. It's simple: I don't go long on bad companies with bad prospects.
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
$TSLA - TESLA OPTIMUS ROBOT FACES SETBACKS Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot project is facing technical and timeline challenges despite President Donald Trump’s recent praise of CEO Elon Musk. The robots remain hand-built, lack full dexterity, and are often remotely operated, prompting delays in factory deployment. The robotics push comes as Tesla’s core EV business weakens, with vehicle sales down in 2025 and global EV leadership lost to BYD.
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@SkipperStagg @Automoto415792 ...and of course the ridiculous eye watering valuation of Tesla.
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@SkipperStagg @Automoto415792 I've got puts on Tesla. Seems the only sensible thing in light of Elon's capacity for bullshit and spin.
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@realsashastone @CaseyPMoran The characters were meant to be cliched and stereotyped. The film was a commentary on contemporary political polarisation. It did focus on authoritarian threat, but also the lack of radical ideological coherency and showed how both sides perpetuated a state of senseless conflict.
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@CaseyPMoran You're probably not older than me. If that's a masterpiece then the best films he ever made are second rate. Magnolia is a masterpiece. I'd even go with There Will Be Blood. One Battle is simple minded and silly. Also cliched and stereotyped. For Sean Penn's character alone.
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@AvidCommentator They’re flailing. They don’t know how to police or address any part of the population that doesn’t respond to law or police. Just a further step down the road of two-tier policing that will adversely affect freedom of speech for the majority without addressing Islamic beliefs.
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@AvidCommentator Dude relax… 50 year mortgages are coming which will make houses affordable again… for awhile
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@talkingcockatoo @AvidCommentator My experience is the opposite. I think a lot depends on how you earn a living and what your priorities are. Life in Germany is A LOT cheaper if you don’t have to live in the biggest, most popular cities.
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@AvidCommentator I just moved back from 8 years in Europe, in comparison our Australian problems are trivial, I’m so happy to be back.
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@BagGlamour @AvidCommentator If you can’t afford to own, but want to have a garden then you are simply stupid. That’s a beaut of a ‘fair go’ attitude from an ‘Aussie’.
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@AvidCommentator You can’t raise the rent unless you justify the market for it , doesn’t matter the repairs. The Gov has made the market soar via immigration demands, visas etc . You’ll never weed out bad landlords but putting money into their garden is stupidity.
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@AvidCommentator Our country is just a giant rent-seeker parasite...
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@AvidCommentator Two classes in Oz, property owners and cockroaches. Cockies are treated with contempt while they pay the way of the property owning class.
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@AvidCommentator Australian living in Germany. Germans are often surprised as to why I would be here. They know little about the realities of trying to live day to day in Oz, take for granted the lower cost of living here and end up romanticising Oz basically because of the weather/natural beauty
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@Kasparov63 I love it how they all say “fight” yet don’t do it themselves. Go and fight Garry.
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@aldamu_jo Can’t believe I’m in such strong agreement with someone I considered a conspiracy nut!
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@RelaxedPop @DannyDrinksWine Just good editing, look closely. He’s already getting out of the phone booth in the shot before the (much slower) truck hits it.
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@DannyDrinksWine Good grief, how did they film this part around 9 seconds...
This is pre green screen. That truck was hauling ass!

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