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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • While I understand your point, I don’t think I fully agree with it. If house prices are connected to inflation, what is there to stop somebody from buying a house and renting it out. The rent money is used to buy a second house and so on. The price of houses will go up, and so will the rent. But the houses themselves were bought at a lower price, so house prices going up would not have any influence on the landlord. In the meantime the rent keeps going up, reultiyin more profit in the end.

    Now of there would be a taxation based on actual worth of a person. And the amount of taxation is based on the minimal income in a country…

    Maybe a bit farfetched and I do not know if I explain it in a way that I get my idea across.












  • Sure, and if we’re dragging out historical wins to score points, we can sit here all day trading inventions like baseball cards.

    Automobiles? Germany. Jet engines and the WWW? UK. Radio? Italy (and yes, Tesla gets a nod too). Satellites and the first man in space? Soviet Union. Solid-state theory that made electronics possible? Mostly European physics.

    China gave us the compass, paper, and gunpowder. India gave us the number zero and early surgery. Japan revolutionized consumer electronics and manufacturing efficiency. France had photography and hot air balloons before the Wright brothers ever left the ground.

    Point is: past contributions are global. No one country owns progress. So unless you’re planning to live off 1950s prestige, maybe let’s not pretend history is a scoreboard that settles today’s reality.