Tja. Unternehmer sind halt genau so ahnungslos (oder sogar noch mehr) als der durchschnittliche Bürger. Wenn es die wirklich um die Wirtschaft ging, würden die lauter um Steuererhöhungen für Topverdiener schreien als die Linke.

Carney harshly condemned Trump in a speech in January at Davos - though he didn’t use kindergarten language, so I think it mostly went by him.

The transcript of the speech is here.

Handy - Handentspannung

Jugendliche nicht verprügeln ist woke.

• Faschismus wachst weiter
• Die AfD greift die Macht
• Dritter Weltkrieg bricht aus
• Bundeskanzler tritt zurück

Schade Schokolade (ohne Lakritz).

Hmm, ja wir bestellen innerhalb Deutschland. Für irgendwo im Ausland besser versuchen dort ein Webshop zu finden.

https://www.worldofsweets.de/

Wir bestellen einfach niederländisches Lakritz aus einem Webshop.

Ich nehme dann auch oft eine Portion mit für Kollegen, obwohl es nicht bei allen populär ist.

In most jurisdictions, citizenship plays no role in taxation. The US is an outlier in this regard.

Taxation can be and is usually done solely on the basis of residency.

Yes, in Europe (other societies, such as Japan, often had very similar systems) it replaced the estate system. In medieval Europe, there were three castes (estates): the nobility, clergy and commoners (including slaves and serfs up to the bans of those practices). Social mobility between these castes was very limited, though going from nobility to clergy was somewhat common. By the end of the medieval period, a new caste emerged: the burghers (citizens - the word itself refers to a city), which consisted of part of the city-dwelling population with elevated status. Under influence of the liberal-nationalist movement of the 19th Century, eventually the burgher caste superseded all the other ones, which were abolished or remain only in ceremonial roles and now most countries have a two-caste system consisting of citizens and noncitizens (even in India this distinction is now more important than the traditional caste system, which still does have major influence in India).

The status of foreigners, which became the noncitizen caste, varied by time and place throughout history. Some societies (like Japan) entirely banned entry of foreigners, in others their status was equal to that of commoners (unless they were foreign nobles or clergy of course). Pogroms and discrimination were commonplace, though, either informally and driven by locals, or decreed by rulers such as during the ethnic cleansing campaigns of the Reconquista. Be that as it may, the religious refugees during the Reformation and Inquisition to places like the Low Countries and Great Britain never had to “apply for citizenship,” and in some sense the current situation has become worse than the status quo ante. The United Kingdom, for example, introduced its first immigration controls in the early 20th Century.

Yes, but their concept of citizenship was very different from the current implementation. It was more like the caste system that predated it.

Equal rights good, discrimination bad.

In den Niederlanden, wo die Bahn auch in 90er Jahren semiprivatisiert ist, ist es schon ewig so, dass das Gewinn der Bahn direkt abhängig ist von der Pünktlichkeit. Es ist dann natürlich nicht die Bahn selber, die bestimmt was als pünktlich gilt.

Ist das alles nicht selbstverständlich?

What is the rationale behind citizenship in the first place?

It’s a rather new concept that has only been around for around 150 years. The system it (gradually) replaced was worse, but that doesn’t mean we should keep the concept of citizenship.

Okay, “most” of the world, sure, but that is not a very high bar. Yes, Americans are much better off than people in the Central African Republic, Myanmar or Venezuela.

You prove my point. In fact, US people working a minimum wage job have a much lower net income (including transfers) than those living on the lowest possible unemployment benefits in top-tier economies, who by the way also have access to adequate health care, top-tier education (without bullshit class-based admission procedures or segregation), much better public transport, etc.

The focus on petrol prices and inflation are, to me, also curious aspects of American culture.

For one, one of the major problems in the US economy is that petrol prices are too low. In general, to optimize productivity one should aim to subsidize those activities that generate positive externalities, and tax those that generate negative externalities. The use of fossil fuels - a heavily polluting activity - should then be adequately taxed. No top-tier economy has petrol prices as low as in the US, they are closer to 10 USD a gallon (in freedom units). The undertaxation of fossil fuels has also led to greater sensitivity to price fluctuations on the global markets.

Inflation is a curious fixation since the US, unlike many other countries, never experienced hyperinflation. So why the obsession? I suspect one factor might be that the US has few collective wage negotiations, whereas here inflation is more or less automatically priced into wages. What then happens is that workers who stay in their job have their wages steadily eroded (i.e., their employer simply pays them a lower real wage over time), but then if they switch jobs, they attribute the wage increase to their career advancement rather than inflation, which increases the price of labour just as it does the price of goods (if due to money losing value).

I think there are two main reasons. The first is that things simply haven’t gotten bad enough. It’s true, there is a health care crisis killing tens of thousands a year, rampant human rights violations in ICE concentration camps, brazen corruption in the administration, etc. But for most of the uneducated and uninformed middle class, these things don’t directly affect their daily lives.

The second reason is that the mass indoctrination campaign concerning American exceptionalism has been immensely successful. So while many Americans agree some things could be improved, they are unsure of what those things are because they also still believe the US is one of the best places in the world to live, even as the US has steadily tumbled down the quality-of-life rankings and now arguably ranks below the likes of Estonia and Slovenia. The belief in exceptionalism has fostered a rather meek and servile attitude towards the government.

Who knew wars could be so complicated?

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