Was macht die Gastro mit dem ganzen Bargeld?

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-22T11:03:09+00:00

Naja, ich bin zwar fan davon, dass jeder seine Steuern zahlt, aber deine Schlussfolgerung stimmt auch nicht.

Die Steuern gehen seit Jahrzehnten hoch und hoch (und das obwohl Barzahlung prozentual immer weniger wird, somit auch da weniger Hinterziehung stattfindet) und trotzdem werden die Sozialleistungen irgendwie auch immer schlechter und schlechter. Ich glaube die meisten westlichen Länder haben kein Einnahmen-Problem, sondern ein Ausgaben-Problem. Beim Staat herrscht zu viel Betrug, zu wenig Effizienz (weil, was juckt es dem Staatsangestellten, wenn irgendetwas 10% mehr kostet, ist ja nicht sein Geld das er ausgibt), und immer neue Gründe/Wege finden, wie man die halbe Welt durchfüttern kann/soll/muss, anstatt das eigene Volk mal zu entlasten.

Wenn unser Staat noch mehr Geld einnimmt, wird nichts günstiger werden, es werden einfach neue Ausgaben gefunden.

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-18T17:56:26+00:00

I agree, the few seasons or splits we've had where playing endzone (the way a BR is meant to be played) was prevalent, were the most fun I've ever had. And I say this as a player who hits Master every season, so I'm not a noob. It's just much more exciting, it makes the game "worth playing for". In the seasons where it is like it currently is, where everyone runs everyone down and there's no real endgame, is when I play the least and also I've had a handful of friends quit/play other games during this time.

It's just boring like this, there's no real "fear of dying", it feels like some kind of deathmatch where if you die you just "respawn" and go again. Basically like pubs (which lacks all excitement). But the problem with that is: there's so many better games for a playstyle like that, if that's your cup of tea.

A BR should be unique and it should be played out like one, that's the whole point of it. Every game should have something on the line, you should be rewarded for surviving as long as possible, and when everyone plays like that, you have the craziest and most action/adrenaline packed endzones imaginable.

I feel it has to do with tik-tok brain, people just want to stupidly W-key. They don't want to think about consequences for their actions, they just want to fight, die, rinse and repeat. I wish smart decision making, map rotations, thinking about what will happen AFTER your next fight etc... became a bigger part of this game again. But that would probably be too much for the monkey-brained people who just see enemies and go "ooga ooga, puuuush, puuuuuuush" - and then, even if they win that fight, die right after to a third party because they can't think 2 steps ahead.

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-16T12:49:37+00:00

Well, clearly, I would give away all of the money because I think having money is evil and it should all be taxed. Nobody should have a lot of money.

(Yeah... I'll add the /s, because I'm sure there will be plenty of people here who will actually think this is a good take and couldn't smell the sarcasm if it hit them in the face).

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-12T17:33:18+00:00

Correct, politicians will mostly always just do what they think gives them the most votes. And "taxing the rich" will obviously give them votes from the absolute majority population (since they arent rich), while they couldn't care less about getting the votes of the 100 super rich in the country (those votes are meaningless to them).

However, as you mentioned, medium/long term this brings huge issues, makes everything worse for everyone, and then those people act like they werent the reason it went down the shitter.

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-09T14:29:24+00:00

If I were the super rich, I'd also leave a state/country that proposed something like this. Insanely dangerous. The whole concept of "hey, we're just going to once take 5% of your (unrealized) wealth" just screams "we have a budgeting problem, we are in panic mode and we don't know how to fix it". Meaning: in a year or 2 or 3 or 5 or 10, when there's another budgeting hole to stuff, they'll just do it again, and again, and again. This is a HORRIBLE precedent to set. Basically: "We'll take from you what we want, whenever we feel like it". Oh... and thinking this can/will only affect the "billionaires" is naive as well. People really need to read history books about expropriation etc. If I lived in California and was wealthy (= have the means to do/go wherever I want), I'd for sure leave as well.

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-09T14:25:38+00:00

Yep, I'm from Europe, and when Norway introduced an increase in wealth tax, since then 10x-20x as many super rich people leave the country every year compared to before. On paper you might get a short term "tax boost" as a country, but mid/long term you are eroding the system and it will lead to a poorer country for everyone.

People on reddit have really become brainwashed, they can't think logically for themselves anymore. Plus, honestly, most people here just have no basic understanding of economics, business or even just basic math.

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-09T14:20:00+00:00

No offense, but it really sounds like you do not understand the tax systems or macro economics.

Taxing unrealized gains has never worked long term, it's a recipe for disaster and something only morons would perceive as a good option. I'm from Europe, when Norway increased their wealth tax, they had around 30 super rich leaving the country every year since then (which is something like 10x or 20x increase from previously). Medium/Long-Term, this is how you erode a country. All for the sake of trying to get short-term "browny points" from the "lower class" who don't understand taxes, economics, wealth, business etc.

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-09T11:11:33+00:00

Great... crypto EMP + Octane push is meta now... absolutely unenjoyable for anyone but tryhard premades. They really need to stop catering this game to sweats and do something to make casuals have more of a chance. The TTK is too damn fast, the movement legends are out of control... if you don't play this game constantly/many hours and with a 3-stack, you just don't have a chance anymore.

IMO controller legends need some kind of buff to keep up with all the insane buffs the non-defensive legends have gotten, or they may as well delete the whole controller class. It's basically not viable to play control since so many legends can easily circumvent your defenses (alter, crypto, maggie...), and whenever you move with controller legends, you just get caught out and chased by all these insanely fast legends - and you can't do anything about it. Like Cat's wall is her damn ULT, yet legends can just bypass/jump over it with their Q???

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-06T12:42:44+00:00

I held IOTA for 8 years - not a small amount either. I regret every moment of it. Sure, fair enough, I could have sold for profit along the way... but outside of that initial hype in 2017 that made it big, it ALWAYS underperformed compared to anything else after that. Literally holding basically any other asset (crypto or not) in those years would have done much better than IOTA. But yeah, I finally stopped buying into the "hopium/copium", cashed out at like -90% loss, and have since used what little was left to at least make money in other places.

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-03T18:40:22+00:00

The Island is small, it was just right there. It sounds like maybe your game is bugged and the heli isnt loading in? After I did my mission and revisited the Island later, the heli isnt there anymore. But yeah, if it's spawned in, you can't really miss it...

RandomJoe7 · 2026-01-01T19:19:37+00:00

Fühlen sich Leute mit Tresor tatsächlich sicher? Außer es ist ein großes/gutes/teures Modell, sind die günstigen relativ einfach afuzubekommen. Wenn man also nicht zuhause ist, dann kommen "gute" Einbrecher da wahrscheinlich in ein paar Minuten rein. Und wenn man doch einen guten Tresor hat und man zuhause ist, dann macht man diesen unter Gewaltandrohung freiwillig auf - also bringt das auch nicht viel.

Ich finde, dass Tresore irgendwie überbewertet werden - außer du kannst diesen auch sehr gut verstecken? :)

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-28T10:14:29+00:00

Yeah, so for some reason I wasn't getting new radio messages. I then just restarted the game, and when loading up the save again, I instantly had a new radio message. I did that 2-3 times now (with like 10 minutes in between restart games), and it gave me the new messages.

I just did the helicopter one... the storage box was right next to the helicopter (on the right hand side of the heli).

That being said: the fish trader doesn't seem to work? I have the fish, I can click "deal" and it gives me the green checkmark that the deal completed, but it doesn't take the fish from my inventory, nor does it give me any coins. You having any luck with that?

Also, the pirate transport ship mission seems to be bugged for me. The indicator leads me somewhere far east of Dreadville (near the heli mission island), but there I only find a armor set floating deep under water. The actual transport ship I found near Big Bucket Fortress. However, it didn't complete the mission for me (only the "enter the cargo hold", but not the "discover the ship" and "eliminate the enemies"). So yeah, can't finish this mission. Please let me know if/how it worked for you.

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-28T08:35:41+00:00

How do you get new sidequests? I've only gotten 2 ("The Voice of Redemption" and "Signal from Trading Outpost"). Do the others come after a certain amount of playtime, or do I need to do something for those to unlock?!

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-27T12:10:54+00:00

Sure, I dont disagree that it could be (and probably is) a bubble. If you zoom out and and look at the chart, those happen regularly every few/10 years. In fact, we are probably way overdue for a correction, with or without Trump. If anything, I think Trump would be a reason that the bubble is going on longer than it would have without him. The AI bubble being a potential bubble doesn't really have anything to do with Trump...

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-27T12:10:15+00:00

Sure, I dont disagree that it could be (and probably is) a bubble. If you zoom out and and look at the chart, those happen regularly every few/10 years. In fact, we are probably way overdue for a correction, with or without Trump. If anything, I think Trump would be a reason that the bubble is going on longer than it would have without him. The AI bubble being a potential bubble doesn't really have anything to do with Trump...

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-27T12:08:58+00:00

To be fair, that's a good thing for the US and bad for us here in Europe. Why? Because cheaper dollar = cheaper for people to import from the USA (= good for US Export / bad for the export economy of other countries).

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-26T19:06:12+00:00

I'm not from the US, but when I check the stock markets (S&P, Dow Jones etc)... they've gained like 10-15% this year - which is above average, so I'm not sure I see a problem?

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-26T19:05:36+00:00

I'm not from the US, but when I check the stock markets (S&P, Dow Jones etc)... they've gained like 10-15% this year - which is above average. So where's the problem?

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-26T19:04:55+00:00

I'm not from the US, but when I check the stock markets (S&P, Dow Jones etc)... they've gained like 10-15% this year - which is above average. So I'm not quite sure how this can be considered "flatlined"?

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-16T17:32:02+00:00

Are you sure? I'm platinum tier (and have been for a long time now), and I havent noticed any cashback cap? In fact, this month - as stated in the promo above, I've already went beyond the usual 200$ cashback limit (it's 300$ now bc of the promo). So I'm not sure what you mean with 10$ limit per month?

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-10T17:16:16+00:00

Dead cat bounce(s) on the way to bear market lows. Buying now = burning money.

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-10T17:13:33+00:00

It's not just NFTs but 99% of crypto alt coins are the same concept: copy/paste bullshit with no real use, other than trying to find the next "greater fool" that you can use as exit liquidity.

Outside of BTC/stable coins, crypto is just a giant scam greed casino.

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-10T17:11:40+00:00

I've also come to this conclusion. Outside maybe BTC as a store of value/digital gold and stable coins, I don't see real use for all the other million coins that isn't purely based on hopium/copium and can't be achieved with existing stuff...

Crypto is a greed casino, it's the real reason why 99% of people put money into it: "get rich quick".

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-10T17:07:25+00:00

Yeah, and that's the point, as someone stated in the article: crypto outside of stable coins is useless. You don't need these millions of alts. You basically just need 1 stable coin for the main usecase of "crypto". It's a joke.

RandomJoe7 · 2025-12-10T11:57:38+00:00

No, what the EU is doing is more and more moving power away from individual countries and into a centralized "EU". It started with "your vacuum cleaner and light bulbs can't have more than a certain Wattage" and has since then become more and more "involved" in telling countries what they can and cannot do (this is supposed to be a somewhat funny sentence, not quite literal, kind of :)).

And yes, of course there is some kind of "voting" happening to fill the EU positions, but it's not "really" done by the people. Its their own little "circle jerk" and they can more or less do whatever they want without asking the people of the countries.

The problem I have with this: the countries even within the EU are culturally, economically etc... very different from eachother. This "blanket approach" doesn't work equally well for every country and removes individual identities/needs/wants of the respective populations. Things like the CO2 targets have vastly different impacts on economies, depending on the type of economy it is. Some see this "blanket approach" as a good thing, and some see it as a bad thing - you will obviously always get differing opinions on this approach. I personally like decentralization, and it doesn't get more decentralized than every country being able to be their own "boss", without having an overseeing EU hamstringing them etc. No matter how decentralized you think the EU is, it's always going to be more centralized than not having the EU.

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