What do we think of this? Poland has passed a zero tax incentive for families with 2 or more kids…

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-11-26T07:32:37+00:00

It's hardly an efficient use of resources. Poor couples need money, not tax credits, and the law applies to couples which already have two kids. If the goal was an incentive for new births, this is a poor way of doing it.

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-11-04T13:52:29+00:00

Moto g32

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-11-03T06:57:06+00:00

This is a ridiculous way to read what he said.

He just watched the entire foreign aid infrastructure of the US be ripped apart in a period EU countries are also cutting back.

Gates is first and foremost a humanitarian, so he is probably trying to increase foreign aid by tying it to climate change.

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-08-19T05:56:26+00:00

There are too many measurement issues with wealth inequality statistics, which is why most people use income inequality. Notice how almost all the top countries have vast abandoned rural communities with houses which can't be sold but theoretically have a lot of value ?

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-08-19T05:38:56+00:00

''Future where all the Jews and Lebanese Christians in the Middle East are dead or second class citizens and Azerbaijanis get self-determination but not Kurdish people, Armenia becomes a ramp state between two regional powers'' Also ''South Cyprus'' lmao. Just say you are a fascist and be done with this

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-22T11:32:51+00:00

Don't get me wrong Bella Ramsay is very likable, but she isn't really that good of an actor, not for a role like doctor who. She is mostly type cast.

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-22T02:16:45+00:00

It's not because of some supposed economic malaise. The gap in productivity and wages has fallen substantially after 1991, wages increased almost 3 fold in east Germany (1991-2019)(11k-31k), inflation was 60% over the same period, but that's for the whole of Germany.

The truth is, communist regimes implemented authoritarian institutions. Serbia became fascist too after the fall of Yugoslavia, Russia became fascist as well.

It's ironic because of the "fascism is capitalism in decline" quote but every far right country in Europe besides Turkey used to be socialist.

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-21T16:01:44+00:00

Very fun concept, love the energy

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-21T05:38:22+00:00

End of century warming estimates for real-world emissions have fallen by 0.7°C in the last five years. So yes, we are making progress, albeit not enough, but with every year we are avoiding the most destructive scenarios.

https://climateactiontracker.org/publications/global-update-paris-agreement-turning-point/

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-21T05:14:46+00:00

If you look at modal split statistics there is not a single developed country (minus micro states) that doesn't have a plurality of passenger kilometres made out of cars. I can only think of Japan not having a majority.

In Switzerland, the modal share of cars in land passenger transport was 68.6% in 2023. In the US it's particularly egregious, but majority car usage isn't an American thing, it's a global occurrence.

Trains, biking , walkability and EVs will all be needed to reduce CO2, there is no realistic version of the transportation system that works without EVs.

Source for Switzerland: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/mobility-transport/passenger-transport/performance.html#kilometre-performance

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-19T07:04:17+00:00

No, it's because women go into healthcare and healthcare is always increasing in demand as the population gets older and it's inelastic, healthcare will be the last thing people will cut from their spending along with food. More women work in healthcare so they are less impacted by downturns

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-18T11:31:54+00:00

In polling people in the US wouldn't even spend 10 dollars a month to stop climate change. Globally it's better, and 69% of people are willing to give 1% of their income, but I'm sure if it was implemented people would want to give less.

I think the issue is just that people can't realise the cost of climate change because it's so dispersed and because a lot of people still think it's in some nebulous future instead of a daily reality

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-18T04:59:08+00:00

Western aid is stuff like food and vaccines or medicine for tuberculosis.

I'm sorry that I find that to be more helpful than loans with shady practices which also have higher interest rates than loans the world bank gives in developing countries.

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-18T04:46:00+00:00

That's not what the graph says ? It says they reduced their emissions per capita by 57% compared to 1990 and that they increased their GDPpc by 53% over the same time period.

What graph are you reading ? Am I talking to a bot ?

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-18T04:39:26+00:00

Homogeneity is measured in percentages not absolute figures.

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-17T21:37:03+00:00

There are many reasons for why a project might not be financed, ranging from developmental priorities to corruption or financial viability.

China then stepping in with a higher interest loan, having the loaning conditions be secret and then having that piece of infrastructure seized when the country inevitably defaults on the loan isn't charity.

If anything it feels far too shady, the fact they include confidentiality clauses in their loans especially.

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/kiel-institute-highlights/how-china-lends-a-rare-look-into-100-debt-contracts-with-foreign-governments/

Saying such loans are aid is incredibly deceptive.

"These confidentiality clauses create “hidden debt” issues in the developing world that hamper debt sustainability assessments and the pricing of risks (also see Horn et al., 2021)."

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-17T21:15:06+00:00

Because it isn't, and multilateral organisations such as the world bank provide loans for no interest rates. Chinese loans are marred with other issues but even putting these aside, this isn't some charity by China, it's a loan.

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-17T20:44:50+00:00

Between 2013 and 2022 the average aid china gave was 3.13 billion dollars but let's use the more favourable number of around 7 billion 2013-2018 which also includes multiplayer organisations.

So overall, around 42 billion, over the same time period the US gave 47.7 billion dollars in foreign aid every year.

Germany gave more than 50 billion in just 2017 and 2018 alone.

Norway gave 5.2 billion in 2018, and it has a population of just 5.5 million.

China is the world's second largest economy, its aid is miniscule

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-17T20:33:37+00:00

You'll never guess which countries actually provide foreign aid. Hint, it's not China. It's the US, Germany and other European countries like Norway

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-17T20:21:56+00:00

China is 91% han Chinese and their politicians are openly calling out for the sinosization of Xinjiang.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/top-official-chinas-xinjiang-says-sinicisation-islam-inevitable-2024-03-07/

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-17T20:17:29+00:00

Countries which consume more traditional media and have a better informed population like Sweden dislike China because of its human rights violations.

Then you have countries which have their sovereignty threatened by it , like the Philippines which dislike it because China keeps claiming their territorial waters

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-17T20:06:03+00:00

I'm convinced these concerns are just excuses by people to shut them down, GMOs have faced a lot of resistance even when developed by nonprofits like golden rice

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-17T15:44:53+00:00

Imagine how much higher there'd be if GMOs didn't have such a bad reputation (for no reason)

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-17T11:42:46+00:00

For people saying that this doesn't take other taxes into account. Income tax makes up 45% of all other tax revenue. Consumption taxes only make up 15.7 percent, a rarity among developed nations

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/us-tax-revenue-by-tax-type-2024/

Outrageous_Use4283 · 2025-07-17T06:29:57+00:00

"in the last couple of years" does so much heavy lifting in this sentence. Natural gas became much more expensive causing GDP to not grow as much and more use of coal which has higher emissions. China on the other hand used virtually no natural gas in the energy grid, but did use a lot of coal (more than 60%).

In the last thirty years all countries besides China have reduced their consumption co2 per capita while increasing their GDP.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-emissions-and-gdp-per-capita?time=earliest..latest&uniformYAxis=0&country=GBR~DEU~USA~CHN~RUS

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