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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • The percentage seemed arbitrary and it being retroactive seemed excessive and unnecessary.

    What?! 3% We pay 8.79% on our income here. Three seems low.

    I feel like no facebook in canada would be a net positive, especially after reading “Carless people”. I don’t even think that would happen, it’s not like these companies can’t afford it, they just don’t want to set a precedent, and they spent all that money on trump!

    I use an adblocker and pirate most my stuff so no one is making money off me.

    You never use Amazon? I also use an adblocker and a pihole i think i see relatively fewer ads, i still see them.

    The one negative i can think of coming out of this is the companies passing the tax on to us, i suspect that wouldn’t happen.







  • This is incorrect.

    You should read a summary of “capital in the twentieth century” , a famous book by an economist that asserts mathematically that taxation of the wealthy is the solution for this issue.

    “Also tarrifs are a leftist thing”

    This kind of talk helps no one, and asserts something that is practically unassertable. Even if we could split the world evenly in two between left and right and at some point the left were the first to propose tarrifs there’d be so little relation to today as to be useless









  • I feel like they def have issues, Taiwan, Tibet, Uyghurs, human rights record, general authoritarianism.

    They also seem to have a better climate change story than anyone in north america, and USA has totally shown itself to be a mercurial alley.

    I don’t see what advantage high tariffs have on something we want more of (EV’s). If the standards suck, then I’m ok with bringing them up to standard and charging for that.

    Making this an either or “they are or aren’t our enemies” seems unnecessary, when we could buy their things and put pressure on them to do better on the things at the top.