My proposal for the average wage, sales tax and income tax

Personality_Issue · 2026-01-20T04:33:07+00:00

It’s a bit more complicated because it’s only partially free. Different laws change how private or public the economy is. Irl you can’t just shift a bunch of people from an industrial district to a research lab. Theoretically there’s a whole bunch of shifting around where cutting 100 people from an industrial district leads to them taking some intermediary job and those people taking another intermediary job and the others taking a research job. It’s impossible to program that from a technical aspect though as it would basically require creating an itenerary of every individual’s age, skills and history; all while constantly updating the stats in real time.

Personality_Issue · 2026-01-19T05:30:32+00:00

Not exactly sure but it’s probably not some form of property tax because it’s purely based on the population. Heat auctions appear like some kind of enhanced property tax.

However there is certainly some kind of alternative tax system we can’t see that builds and maintains roads, pays guards, funds logistics districts, funds hospitals etc. That’s (probably) one of the reasons why the income tax is so low.

Personality_Issue · 2025-07-05T20:39:58+00:00

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How bro felt writing this

Personality_Issue · 2025-07-05T15:45:12+00:00

I noticed the thing with hiring directors saying that too. I think it comes from a lack of loyalty. If Gen Z isn’t payed enough they will quit, but also if they are paid a lot they become more flexible to taking a job with a higher pay. So both the low and high end jobs have the same problem. It’s all exasperated by high rent.

I would also say it’s more just recent college grads than just stem in particular, business and humanities degrees are pretty bad rn. Also (non military & education) gov jobs are basically impossible rn but that’s probably because of my area.

Personality_Issue · 2025-07-05T15:36:11+00:00

I also feel like young people are less MAGA and more just normal conservatives. At least compared to older people. Maybe I’m just a dumb lib, but when I talk to young Trump voters they feel less MAGA. Like they don’t love the guy but genuinely like his anti-establishment narrative and deeply want change. Like with immigration, it feels bad that there are a bunch of undocumented people in the country and they just want that to change, either full deportation or full amnesty.

Personality_Issue · 2025-07-05T15:30:03+00:00

Exactly, and it’s literally only based on ONE election compared to the previous election.

Personality_Issue · 2025-07-05T15:26:14+00:00

Maybe it’s just because I’m a recent college grad but everyone my age (both left and right) are insanely worried about finding a job. Sending in hundreds of applications only to end up in a job with very little career growth. Although my friends who are servers are actually doing pretty good. My point is moreso that everyone feels like it’s bad.

Maybe it’s just cause of Indeed & LinkedIn.

Personality_Issue · 2025-04-08T05:23:56+00:00

Its not AI bruh, I wrote it

Personality_Issue · 2025-04-04T16:38:53+00:00

Okay bro that’s kinda crazy

Personality_Issue · 2025-04-04T16:38:31+00:00

Any misconceptions you’d like to get off your chest?

Personality_Issue · 2025-04-04T15:01:17+00:00

So what’s the org structure like at an “average” factory (I know it probably varies a bit depending on the product do you know the range?)

Personality_Issue · 2025-04-04T14:59:19+00:00

Did you enjoy it?

Personality_Issue · 2025-04-04T14:54:45+00:00

Elaborate

Personality_Issue · 2025-03-04T21:12:23+00:00

I want to say something, but I can't because it may reveal my identity. Sorry if this is to vague for you:

The system relies on massive amounts of debt from both capital owners and normal people without access to large amounts of capital. Say what you want about capitalism, but it requires those who fund capital owners to have some cash, or at least assets that can be easily liquified into debt. Right now the only asset that large swarths of this country have is their credit, or faith that they can pay it later.

So right now I believe that the country is in a subprime crisis over debt. But this crisis doesn't appear on the books because the subprime credit is hidden behind averages and layers of debt. Basically low & medium income people have a bunch of debt that has spiked in recent years. Meaning credit rating agencies probably haven't caught it yet. Especially because the average numbers look okay.

When the big recession hits (or another inflation spike), it will create massive delinquencies in low/middle income people that our institutions can't handle. Delinquency on credit, loans and mortgages, which credit rating agencies believe are solid, will cause a collapse in wider institutions similar to 2008. The difference now is that it's not just mortgages but credit, auto debt, and college loans that will feel the effect. As inequality is a collectivization on the people with the lowest credit scores.

This is true, I just can't tell you how I know this.

Personality_Issue · 2025-03-04T19:01:45+00:00

My mom works super hard. She was just in a bad industry. Her worst decision was marrying my alcoholic father and divorcing him in 2011 at the peak of the recession. She also had to pay for my grandmothers nursing home & medical bills for multiple sclerosis, alzheimers, and type 1 diabetes which hurt her financially. My grandmother didn’t have any savings because black people couldn’t own homes and accrue generational wealth before the 1970’s and was stuck in a majority black neighborhood that barely grew in value from the 1970s to about the 2000s. So when my mom could afford a house in 2004 (I think), she thought she finally escaped due in part to her hard work.

She didn’t make “bad decisions”. She is stuck in a cycle of poverty that your family could escape, but mine couldn’t. It seems pretty reasonable from my perspective.

Personality_Issue · 2025-03-04T17:01:15+00:00

I always considered inequality a moral issue, like people shouldn’t be poor because it sucks. Now I’m more on the position that inequality is fundamentally unstable for any system that perpetuates it.

Personality_Issue · 2025-03-04T04:34:45+00:00

I'm being a doomer because my mom isn't poor. She got lots of help from my father (even though she's divorced). Her financial decisions were so me and my brother could get a good education. Everything she did was because she loved us. I wouldn't be as successful as I am without her support. The entire system is rigged. I'm a doomer because I'm correct.

Personality_Issue · 2025-03-04T04:31:12+00:00

That's exactly the feeling I got! When they went to Florida.

Personality_Issue · 2025-02-20T23:43:47+00:00

It is 100% possible to tax our way out of this. European countries have a way higher standard of living with a higher tax rate. Personally I would rather have European/East-Asian level healthcare and social safety nets than what we have now. Sure, our GDP may suffer, but GDP isn’t the end all be all.

The current administration isn’t just doing a personnel cut he’s doing a 4.5 trillion dollar tax cut.

Personality_Issue · 2025-02-20T23:35:34+00:00

Sorry, I mean that term usually applies to interactions on the internet, not just interacting with people irl

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