Let’s be honest; that’s pretty cool.
I did go and find that article. Probably wished I hadn’t, but I was aware of the incident, not the details. worth knowing what’s happened, as bad as it is.
Horrific.
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What a ■■■■!
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Same here, and it is only 9 AM.
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Hasnt he always been?
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No it’s actually disgusting.
I don’t mind the smell, even the taste of some of them, but the texture is beyond repugnant.
Your Cavalier King Charles should have the deciding vote !
We still talking about cheese??
Thanks to Jake my dog is now deceased.
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Or not even one Tokyo!
Tokyo’s 2024 population is now estimated at 37,115,035
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98% Japenese too.
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This was happening every 5 minutes back in the mid 80s especially at the Tech that I went to and not a single lockdown.
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Some general good news I think I came across today (if I read this correctly).
Id imagine a prosperous place to live is where you have a high median wealth thats not too far away from the average.
Seems in Australia we do ok.
Sweden suprised me. The average wealth being three times(instead of our double) the median. Meaning I assume lots of people without and a few with a lot pulling up the average.
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Surely there were very few mobile phones, if any, in the 80s, and hardly any parents would have had them.
Im so curious now as to what “unable to regulate their behaviour” and total “school lockdown” means.
Talk about unnerving.
Interesting. The wealth inequality stat for Sweden has gone from 0.74 in 2008 to 0.88 in 2021. Australia stayed level at 0.66.
“The policy changes which have triggered these changes in lifestyles are of three kinds.
First, the rich have benefitted from massive tax cuts. As in many other OECD countries, inequality has been fuelled by the abolition of a number of heavily redistributive taxes. Today, Sweden does not levy taxes on gifts or endowments, it has no property tax and there is no other wealth taxation. In addition, the right-wing government in power from 2006 to 2014 introduced a series of earned income tax credits (EITC, jobbskatteavdrag), which substantially lowered tax rates for the rich. Those of the top 10 per cent who earn their income as business owners benefit from one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the European Union.
Second, on top of the tax cuts, the right-wing government introduced tax rebates skewed towards high-income earners. Those who can afford a mortgage are entitled to a rebate on their interest payments (ränteavdrag). All kinds of expenses related to maintenance and refurbishment of private homes are tax-deductible (ROT-avdrag), as are household services including cleaning, laundry and babysitting (RUT-avdrag). Indeed, housemaids are not only re-emerging for the first time since the 1950s—they are subsidised.
From 2014 until 2018, Sweden was governed by a red-green minority government, consisting of the Social Democrats and the Green Party. With the support of the Left Party, it introduced reforms to increase equality—for instance a substantial increase in universal child benefits. It also capped some of the tax rebates (for instance, that on household services was limited annually to 50,000 SEK, or €4865). But it did not reintroduce any taxation on wealth and it did not substantially raise income taxes for the affluent.
As a result, inequalities have continued to grow. Take housing. The continuation of tax deductions for maintenance and refurbishments of private homes, despite the current economic boom and severe labour shortages within the construction sector, have helped increase the costs of construction workers, plumbers, electricians and carpenters. Neither the tax rebate for interest payments on housing credits nor the one for maintenance is available to tenants, so they have faced higher rents, as landlords have to pay non-tax-deductible and inflated prices whenever they renovate or rebuild flats.
In short, it has become more expensive to be poor, and cheaper to be rich.”
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Surprising isn’t it.
Id have blindly put them into that bucket of scandanvian countries that are always talked about as the best places in the world.(for equality, how they are run, quality of life etc)
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Yeah. It’s a really clear reminder that trickle down economics is complete bullshit. The main driver of wealth inequality is low taxes on the rich.
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It has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with how people are managed.