“Evolution" according to Elon Musk
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For him it should be "and I avoided 65k in taxes".
Which reminds me, wasn't there an interview where he was asked What if he had to start over with just $100 (the equivalent of two rocks)... and he didn't even understand the question...?
To owe that much you'd be making close to 300k in the US for federal taxes. You'll be fine.
My brother in Christ I work at 7/11 I'm just really bad at taxes
We live in an era of abundance but a tiny minority of ultra wealthy villains cannot stand resources being shared fairly if it means they lose their relative wealth, and the vast majority are coming to realize they can (violently or not) seize the means of production and sentence a dozen of these fuckers to death along with anyone dumb enough to defend them during this final stretch of late stage capitalism.
It's going to take a few years of turmoil and effort, but a few brave people here and there will be enough to bust their bunkers and drain their accounts to pay for the resources they've managed to steal from public coffers over the last decade. There won't be justice because laws aren't going to apply, only fury and retribution as the majority do not show the same mercy afforded to the Nazis during the Nuremberg trials.
What a nice daydream
We live in an era of abundance
Much of it is due to exploitation, but I still agree. All austerity narratives exist to make rich people richer. That's the only real austerity we - the rest - suffer from.
If you live in a wealthy country you almost certainly have more than the average person on the planet unless you are on the edge of homelessness.
Everyone could have enough, but a lot of people would be very angry at losing a lot of what they currently have. Even if you would be happy with less, most wouldn't.
Is it abundance if it relies on slave labour or awful wages from a 3rd world country?
Does it matter if you have more than the average person* if your house is effectively over quicksand?
Most Americans have more than the average person planetwide, but we're one job loss away from being homeless. There's no real stability in the job world, so our lives are mostly relying on luck**.
I'm paranoid about this type of thing, so I:
- Live in a cheap house - purchase price about 60% of what the bank would have approved.
- Drive an old car. I bought it in 2012 with a low-interest loan. No car payment since 2017.
- Save aggressively. Max retirement accounts and keep up a healthy emergency cushion.
*I'm taking "average person" here to mean "has more wealth than 50% of people on Earth" (wow, such a high bar!)
**Not entirely luck, but I've read too many "lost my job in tech to layoffs in 2023/2024 and am now homeless" accounts to believe in any guarantees in the American economy.
And I'm not even convinced taking yourself as an example is representative of the average American since you own a home and have a retirement fund. Regardless, Americans these days lead very stressful lives because we all get pitted against each other in a gambling ring. You draw one bad hand and your life is effectively ruined. I'm not sure if you can even compare that to life in the global south where there's more of a quiet resignation to the first hand you're dealt in life.
Oh, I'm nowhere near average in this respect. Believe me, I know I'm tremendously privileged to have the level of stability that I do.
The point I was trying to make is, even with the relative stability I do have, I'll still lose my house if I lose my job and can't find another one quickly enough.
You messed up. You gotta convince the other people bang the rocks for you. Then you can pay no taxes.
You can deduct expenses for each unga bunga as long as you were thinking about work at the time
How much would you have to earn to owe £65k also why is it owed why wasnt it auto deducted by your employer or accountant if self employed?
I do not meme this.... is the joke he has to count?
Gubumint bad
Human population grew past the point where direct individual mutual help was a sustainable way of keeping social cohesion.
Population size isn't the issue. Population mobility is the issue. In a globalised world where you can more or less easily cross whole continents and with a society that requires you to regularly move across the country for "new jobs" or whatever, you inevitably are less connected to the thousand people in your birth village.
IV your birth village
What does that mean?
Stupid autocorrect. Hope it's fixed now.
I thought you've been poetic with "intravenous village" as in "village you was born in and it's in your veins"
Autocorrect poetry... Still better than slop poems.
Even in one location it's a big issue. When even a small city has more than 10k people, the people with resources might not personally know those who don't have them.
You don't need to personally know them. But having to rely on local structures does wonders. If people had to walk or maybe bicycle to the nearest supermarket or couldn't commute 40km in half an hour, I'm sure the local structures would look very different. There have always been markets.
... by 1500 BC (look up the battle of Megiddo between Egypt and Kadesh).
I'd say any warfare is an indicator of the population being too big for mutual aid to provide social cohesion.