the large majority of people live in the middle class... how can u get anyone else to move up into the middle class if everyone else is in the middle class? If all the middle class jobs are taken where are you going to get more middle class jobs?

Are we just going to shiit it out? is there a middle class tree in the back of the white house that drops middle class leafs

Dude, the people of different classes are constantly moving up and down, they're not stagnant.

This is especially true at the higher income levels

Also, most of the super rich are self-made

Yeah chapter 13 is talking about ethnic differences as well. But the book is basically about intelligence. Not even race

the majority of people move from middle to poor and poor to middle. The people that move from middle to wealthy are an extreme minority. And when they do they ain't for long because of the high tax's so they get disincentived

The US doesn't have high taxes wtf

Come to Austria and we'll show you high taxes

I think classes are more or less stagnant. That’s not because of evil shadow men behind the scenes, it’s just good people rise and bad people fall. And that’s mostly genetic IMO

?? the usa tax's discriminants based on your wealth?

Compared to all the other countries in the world, the US is a tax haven

https://tenor.com/view/english-english-motherfucker-pulp-fiction-gif-5630290

One of the greatest things about the US is the fact that you have so little regulation and taxation

tax haven? that's a joke.. Hardly any billionaire pays their tax's in the usa.

wait wut

Are we speaking two different languages? A tax haven means you're NOT paying much taxes

Just look at the meme again, ET

Yeah I noticed <:smugon:512048583806025739>

He don't no speako no Eigo

Yeah and they don't pay it in the usa and they shouldn't. I wouldn't want to loose 75% of my wealth. So they invest it in stock instead of spending. When they do spend it they move the investment oversea's and sell it there

So what's our disagreement, I'm not sure

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/map?geozone=world&page=map&year=2017

that the wealthiest people per cap is from singapore because of their tax's

And i can hardly find anything about their policies. It seems like it's a information black out on them

Morning all

@Ethreen42 G'day cunt

Isn't Singapore highly authoritarian?

They have little to no freedom of speech afaik

They have no freedom, correct.

i don't know. Honestly noone talks about them. Hardly any information or studies.

Reminder that New Zealand is Australian land and that only Anglo Celtic people are real aussies

nz isn't australian land. i'm australian

Ah yes, that reminds me of the **Democratic People's Republic of Korea** where everything's great and people are happy and no one commits any crime and all that.

@Kingy200 wrong but ok

Who in their right mind puts Singapore in second place on the freedom index

Must be some liberal arts student who doesn't know the difference between fascism and a pot of tea

nz is their own country recognized by the international stage. They also killed thousands of people when they tried to colonize their lands (way back). They have their own constitution which australia doesn't

the index is based on tax and freedom in market

So it's basically a meaningless index then if it doesn't account for non-economic policies

New Zealand is a Anglo-Celtic nation state that unfortunately didn't become a state in 1901, it should of and incorporating it should be a foreign policy goal for Australia