Cant imagine making 30 k a year and having to pay even 1600 in taxes. This is saying it will increase that much.
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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It's the same in Germany, people listed the actual tax cuts that'll happen per income bracket for each of the major parties, and surprisingly the nazi party that keeps drumming up the "We're the common man's party!!!!!!" is the one that wants to make the rich richer.
And if you want to make the rich more richer than the fucking FDP, a factually one-man party by a guy that can only comment "But what about Porsche drivers?!" to any problem you put in front of him, wow are you a rich assholes party.
Remember, fellow Germans: Today we vote. And if on the way out you vote with your fist in the face of a nazi or nazi-sympathizing voter, that's a bonus!
Unfortunately, disinformation seems to be the winning strategy.
From an American: sorry for Facebook, Twitter, all that... Both our parties are kinda bought by big tech, and it's affecting y'all too.
Also, spite. A German acquaintance tells me that their family is going to vote for the AfD to punish their current government. In my opinion, Harris lost because of similar actions—citizens trying to teach a lesson or punish their party for not being what they want it to be (which is a reasonable wish, but I'm not sure about the action). Argentina also had some resentful voters that led to the clown in power today.
The democrats were doomed to failure from the beginning. They consistently ignored their voters and were almost enthusiastically pushing people to the other side. To this day, most of the democratic leadership doesn't seem to have learned any lessons.
But what's infuriating is that the republicans pushed Trump. The traitor who attempted a violent coup against the American government, and who very clearly had plans to become a dictator and destroy democracy in this country is who they backed for president. If they backed some sane right or center-right candidate, they would have wiped the floor in that election with much more votes, much less drama, and possibly even restored a sense of national unity.
But nope. The republicans joined the American traitor, and now the entire world is going to suffer for it. If WW3 happens, I hope the equivalent of the Nuremberg trials remembers who got us to this point: it wasn't the incompetent Democrats, it was the fascist Republicans.
Why not vote for some smaller party though? From what I understand, AfD would keep a lot of the bad (highly regressive tax policies, foreign policy).
And that's why i said that US is just speedrunning things.