Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "France is Collapsing, Protests Everywhere. Financial Crisis is Coming" video.

  1. What's not solved is how to tax AI productivity for the benefit of human society, rather than allowing its corporate owners to continue hoarding the gains like they've been doing since the 1970s.
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  2. Humans have gotten by through villages and extended families that can look after the kids for free while both parents are busy. Now we pay through the nose for daycare and babysitters because those trust networks no longer exist in the developed world of largely isolated nuclear families.
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  3. Right, I just heard an NPR podcast that said how so-called "irresponsible" single or cohabiting black parents avoid marriage because their tax burden shoots up in a dual-income filing.
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  4. Ironically anti-welfare anti-contraceptive conservatives blame parents having kids they can't afford as irresponsible.
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  5.  @celtne6860  Increase supply. Inflation is fundamentally demand overwhelming supply.
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  6. That's why it's important to tax wealth (and especially penalize hidden assets), not just income which the rich can get passively with additional deductions.
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  7. I believe that the pension should really be based on a percentage of how much the current taxpayers could pitch in each month or year. If the real income of young workers trends downward, so should the gratuities involuntarily paid to retirees.
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  8. Pensions and stock sales are technically not local work. Plus places like the Philippines and Thailand and Belize have residency schemes that specifically cater to foreign retirees.
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