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We said stone age.
Robbity
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And if you're in France, don't use TurboTax, use the official government website that calculates everything for you reliably every year :o
Well yes it's ridiculous we have (in EU) a mandatory warranty of only 2 years on anything electronic.
Phones should be 5 years. Appliances should be 10 and cars 15 or 200k kilometers. How have we normalized the fact that it's okay for a car to break down after two years and the manufacturer is not on the hook ?
Definitely not on the menu. Most people don't have milk in their coffee in France, and oat milk is even rarer. The default coffee experience, a small black coffee, is vegan on its own.
But I can appreciate the frustration. Oat milk is cheap and has low environmental impact, it would be good for it to be offered more widely, regardless of taste.
I mean we just vote on Sundays it's a pretty simple fix.
They'll make iPhones in India. Which is actually what they are doing right now. Or in Vietnam. Or Ethiopia. You can't tariff everyone 140% if you want your economy to work.
Yes. This is called lying. This is what these people have been doing for a while now. I don't think this will change soon.
Didn't it ? Russia started imposing tariffs on Ukraine in 2012.
Trade breakdown is a clear precursor to armed conflict.
Nations that trade extensively with each other don't go to war. Trade wars are an accelerator of armed conflict.
People talk about tech giants, but Facebook and Google are actually advertising giants. They pour much more money into their advertising than they do into r&d.
Many brands have a cost structure where, for each product sold, more money goes to advertising than to the person who actually made the product. Sometimes 2 or 3 times more. That's where the battle for attention is taking us, a place where attention from customers is worth much more than the effort of the worker.
None of this is inevitable, advertising should be heavily taxed and regulated.
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This is known as the cost disease. As manufacturing gets increasingly optimized, automated and cheap, the share of income that needs to be spent on everything else increases. For example, housing and services like live entertainment or healthcare.