And so what? In this one hypothetical, the skilled experienced surgeon still gets more money to take home than the less skilled, less experienced worker.
Guntrigger
joined 10 months ago
Do you honestly think someone who earns 100k a year works twice as hard as someone who earns 50k a year?
And if the 50k earner only pays 20% and the 100k earner pays 40%, they are still earning 50% more than the low earner. Even theoretically it's not particularly unfair.
True. I always read conscription and think "sent to the frontlines", but there's a lot of logistics and support that goes into an army.
True, but the entire sustainable grid shouldn't be solar. There's wind, hydroelectric and geothermal which don't turn off at night and even nuclear is preferable to burning fossil fuels.
I never understood this argument for "we need coal to run the power at night" like batteries have never existed. Do you still light gas lamps at night, or would you use an electric torch?
It doesn't feel like a great idea to conscript those with mental health issues heavily impacted by stress.
I don't think you can call yourself grown up because you chose a couple of shitty games and threw your hands up to proclaim ALL GAMING IS DEAD
Me move the goalposts? What are you talking about? I've been maintaining the whole time that it's potentially over the top to shoot someone with a gun when they are throwing rocks at cars, while admitting we don't have all the facts om how it went down.
You on the other hand, keep coming back to me about different rock related dangers and vaguely alluding that shooting someone throwing rocks is fine whatever the scenario because rocks can be *hand wavy* amounts of dangerous.
You asked me if I knew the stats on rock throwing deaths. I don't, but I assumed you would enlighten me seeing as you brought it up. Instead you accuse me of moving the goalposts when I'm still taking about the case in point.
Do you? I'd wager it's considerably lower than deaths from shootings involving figures of authority.
You're probably not wrong, but a pig does at least provide more than a few mouthfuls of food.
Not that I condone the suffering.
The whole boiling alive thing always put me off. Torturing a creature to death for a morsel of food never seemed quite right to me.
The most shocking thing to me here is the tax rates. Everywhere I've lived, the lowest bracket of income tax rate is 20-30% rising to 50% for high earners. The fact that the highest earners in the US (literally multi-millionaires and billionaires) are only paying 25% is outrageous to me. The average income tax paid for the 1% bracket is $400k, meaning they are still going home with at least $1.2mil a year. Why are the bottom 50% even paying anything? It's obscene.