> How did you forget that Apple offers alternatives to almost everything Microsoft has, and is one of the world's largest companies?
I think the point is to avoid dependence on US based companies as opposed to getting away from Microsoft specifically. You will notice they did not mention obvious Google products as an alternative either.
Isn't a wealth tax just an expanded capital gains tax?
If last year I had wealth X and this year I have wealth X+Y, I have to pay a wealth tax on the gains, in addition to the the tax on the amount I had previously.
- Wealth tax is much lower, think a percent of your wealth or less vs 20% of your gains.
- You can avoid wealth tax by spending. If you sell a bunch of shares to earn $100k then take a year off to see the world, you pay no tax on that (other than sales taxes etc).
- In practice a lot of things aren't covered by wealth tax. If you spend on a fancy new TV it's not measured. Only the big ticket items are wealth taxed (houses, financial assets, art, cash piles, etc).
> How did we go in 20 years from holding these companies to account when they'd misbehave to acting as if they are poor damsels in distress whenever someone points out a flaw?
Honestly I think the problem is more a rosy view of the past versus any actual change in behavior. There have always been defenders of such companies.
>> This North Korean world map is centred on the Pacific Ocean, which gives Korea a privileged position on the global stage.
> Not going to lie, sometimes it feels that some of the Westerners act like that they don't even think of the remote possibility that they might not be the center of the world…?
Westerner who also thought this was a strange comment and that the centering of the Korean peninsula was a totally natural decision for this atlas
Yes, stores are dealing with this alongside a whole legal framework today. They would not have the benefit of that for any changes without pennies, and in a few cases may open themselves to legal liability by underpaying state sales tax, overcharging snap recipients, etc etc. We don’t know because this was just a tweet decree by the executive while the legislature has been paralyzed.
The situation where pennies exist already has all the problems concerning rounding after sales tax. Things are rounded to whole pennies. The same solutions can be applied to round things to whole nickels.
I think the point is to avoid dependence on US based companies as opposed to getting away from Microsoft specifically. You will notice they did not mention obvious Google products as an alternative either.
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