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I lived in Canada for 12 years and regularly visited the US for pleasure and work.

I’m not reading anything online, I literally lived in Canada for 12 years and saw first hand how awful the US is.

You would have to pay me a lot to live there, which explains the astronomical wages for tech workers.

And I disagree about your efforts paying off more in the US. In a couple areas like tech sure, but most people would be better off somewhere else.

You can just buy an AC in Europe, most of the time you don’t need it though

I guess we should go back to feudalism then?

Government debt doesn’t matter. It’s literally fake.

You do know that we used to have currencies backed by gold, and it was so awful that it caused the great depression right?

There is no such thing as unlimited immigration

Nobody’s asking for a “handout”.

Money is power. Elon Musk would be a cringe lord if he wasn’t rich. But because he’s rich he gets to play government.

That’s the point of taxation. It’s not to fund anything. The government doesn’t need your money to fund anything.

False.

They’re growing now because people can’t afford the west coast anymore.

This lifestyle is literally impossible in most US cities unless you’re a high income earner.

Because nobody wants to live in the south, midwest and east coast.

The west coast was a great place to live, people moved there, they didn’t build enough housing, people lose their jobs and can’t afford rent, they go homeless.

You know, “forcing homeless people off the streets” so they die somewhere else isn’t the amazing policy you think it is

Idk why you think your kids should get your money when you die. If they didn’t earn it then they should get a small amount and have to work for the rest, just like everyone else.

How is the “standard of living” in the US in any way higher than europe?

Making driving way more expensive takes care of that.

Journalism’s responsibility is to the truth, not to some perceived notion of fairness. The right in the US has been living in their own reality for a while now. Media does not owe liars any time of day.

Don’t take this to mean the democrats are the left and aren’t guilty of the same thing. They’re also right wing, and they lie, but to a lesser extent.

Yes, there is a korean team. The Japanese team is, no exaggeration, 10x larger.

And if you think that’s preposterous you don’t know the least of it. For example, the designers in the company decided to boycott meetings.

This is completely false. Line has been developed almost entirely in japan after the first couple years. The japanese team at this point is a couple orders of magnitude larger than the korean one, and most of the development is decided in japan.

I would know, I literally worked there.

There is no merit that warrants more than 10 million dollars. At that point money is just power, not consumption.

Yes, I didn’t think I had to specify but I meant in urban areas all over california.

It’s actually really easy to fix that.

You give government right of first refusal on any low density property for sale in california, you get rid of sfh zoning, re-zone anything within 1Km of public transport as high density, and then build mid-rise high density buildings everywhere as you massively expand public transport network.

Within a decade you could have dense efficient cities all over california.

Natural deficit is literally meaningless. You’re telling on yourself by mentioning it that you don’t understand economics.

And you haven’t addressed how you’re going to get people to stop using oil without taxes.

Maybe this price hike will encourage more people to ride, and the government will build more!

Cities are suitable for public transport and that’s where most californians live. Yes, they shoud rebuild their cities, it’s called development and is done all the time.

We don’t need electric cars, we need public transit. Cars and cities are fundamentally incompatible.

This is true, but Germany is quickly ramping up renewables. Recent figures show that wind and solar accounted for more than 50% of energy this summer. Winter will likely be a challenge though.

Public transport exists.

I can’t imagine any scenario where lower taxes is the right move. I guess maybe if you’re dying in a few years and don’t care about global warming?

I think I see what you’re saying, and I agree with you that the wealth inequality between the ultra rich and everyone else is the real challenge. The tech worker with a Google salary is a lot closer to a homeless man on the street than he is to the true 1% in the US, and that’s a real problem.

I’m not familiar with any country where this pattern is untrue. From Canada and USA, to Brazil, France, and Japan.