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From a tax perspective:

Stock earnings are not income.

Neither is capital gain - and it would need to be tackled as you suggested with q capital gains tax. But that is quite easy to circumvent in basically all countries because it's nearly impossible to check (as seen in the many scandals like cumex).

And then there is the whole banking apparatus: I can use stocks as security against cheap loans, use the loaned money for consumption and then lower my capital gains tax by calculating those loans against my gains. Remove that loophole and suddenly a pensioner can't pay for their running costs anymore

All of that lead down a rabbit hole of "but can't we just" for me. At least my conclusion: I didn't come up with something that a) doesn't break apart already on paper b) can be implemented without international collaboration and c) can't be abused just as easy.

Personal note and speculation: often I read people taking about a system that is designed against group X. I disagree: the financial systems were not designed with any goal in kind at all outside the specific needs and questions for the specific legislatures. Meaning that "we need to fund a social security system" and "why don't billionaires pay more tax" have the same root: we humans are terrible at overseeing time horizons of more than a few years. But we're absolutely genius in taking something apart and finding loop holes the size of a raisin.

That's a great question in my opinion and the answer lies in the ways money moves around.

There are a lot of ways to get money that are not limited by income tax, depending on your specific country and tax structure.

Examples can be rent, inheritance, gifts and revenue/profits. I'm addition there is all the money that was earned elsewhere.

I'm short the sales tax is aimed at all consuming entities while the income tax is limited to, well, income. To give another example: Companies themselves consume but don't give any income tax.

Now the follow up question might be why it's designed that way. And that is something for the historians to answer. Make the sales tax too high though and people will country hop to shop, make income tax higher instead and you increase wealth gap even further (non income earnings are rewarded more)

All traffic can be audited from a device if you have full access.

You can do that yourself if you want to spend a shitload of time lettering Wireshark and the technicalities of the IP protocol.

The arguments back and forth are absolutely weird to me. At least for my stock android: there is not enough data transfer unaccounted to allow server side analysis and the device resources are not under enough load to account for local analysis. This just leaves a hidden chip for doing this. I don't have the skills for a physical teardown so I trust others in their hardware analysis.

Why is this always "oh but they must do this! It must be the manufacturer!"

The claim that this happens needs at one point generated, unaccounted data leaving a device under full control of the analysts.

Stop giving arguments and give a trace stack. Bonus points id it comes with the ROM that generated it for reauditing purposes.

Yeah that's a user mistake, not the software. They simply are not as water of the output formatting -and most likely the quiz buttons get randomized anyway.

And no, this is not "software needs to prevent user mistake" territory either as the questions need to be a free text field.

No one would blame the software if the lines would be "the answer is eight" instead of a repetition of the answer options.

Hertz is the repetition per second, to get it you simply divide the amount with the time.

This gives you 20 "swings" divided by 2.5 seconds, getting to 8hz, B.

Does that mean that an "all" view is "onl"y all of the subscriptions/places people from my server have?

That's quite interesting.

And thanks!

Oh I think you might be right!

Now it became one of those vase/woman pictures where I see one or the other... BDSM duck will stick with me though, I have to confess.

"kaiserlich und königlich", falls sich das andere auch fragen.

Klasse Fund, vielen Dank!

Stumbled here from All so perhaps it's obvious but...

Is that a really angry BDSM leather duck next to her or is my brain toying with me again?

Got it. Then the bad news is that when with a diagnosis you'll have a more of trial and error in front of you. The good news is that man's of the structural behavioral tools die ADHD will help non ADHD people as well as at their core they work against overburdening the brain.

I think you over worry then die a simple reason: There meds will be clear in few days, a therapist will find ways to help you and you will find things that work for you!

Actually the medication is one of the cleanest diagnostics tools in my opinion: if they give you energy and push you up then your brain did its job already. If they call you down and provide focus then they (literally) filled the gaps in the brain.

Hey friend,

Honestly I don't understand what the difference would be for you.

There's no badge or membership. Personally I had three benefits of my diagnosis (which is two decades back by now and was as an adult):

I had an easier time understanding my own brain and... Well world perception.

I was able to easier look for help and talk about it.

I was able to test medication (didn't work our for me back then she took side effects but that's a different story).

To get a strangers "judgment": If you just want an excuse for your low energy and failing here and there you don't have it. If you want guidance and new approaches to improve your life for yourself and then here's your diagnosis: one of us!

Either way I wish you the best :)

Oh yeah, cash is king here (to my personal demise I have to admit).

I guess it's the other easy around, Germany never updated: BGB 241 allows for deviations of cash within individual terms. The state itself uses that privilege at least for some transactions (had to pay a service invoice via bank transfer only, no other payment methods accepted).

I looked it up now, I guess it's even clearer: since 2023 only bank transfer or similar trackable transactions are allowed for real estate transactions.

Fascinating, thanks for the rabbit hole!