Yeah. I personally think that a mathematical curve would address that.
Yeah. The little amount of financial literacy that I have, I got from experience; it was never taught to me by the school system.
Hmm, you are right. But this is not knowledge that is taught to us. So, the main problem is politicians limiting the information given, no?
You're right about that in the US, but it is different here in Portugal, where you actually do lose income. Source: https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/portugal/individual/taxes-on-personal-income
Furthermore, a standardized system for the EU would be a good thing, and after that, country-specific taxes.
Thanks for the explanation, but keep in mind that this is not only about the US. I am Portuguese, and this is a problem here, AFAIK. Nonetheless, this would simplify the tax calculation.
Thoughts about a Progressive Tax Rehaul?
As the title goes. This would involve turning the tax levels / brackets into an exponential mathematical curve. One of the benefits off of the top of my head, is that people wouldn't be scared of their salary increasing just enough, to actually lower their clean income. Another one would be that you can lower even further the tax rate for middle / low class, because you (the government) would receive more from taxes. Any opinions/ideas for this?
Yeah. I guess the most important thing is to educate people, something that politicians haven't done, because they know that people wouldn't vote in them, if they were educated.
We need to rid our society of greed, jealousy, and hate. But that is also in our genetics, so it will take a lot of effort.
We (the people) desperately need to find a balanced solution, one that slowly makes people realize that capitalism hurts them, and that the only way is to make the richest people max. 3 times richer than the very poorest. And there should be a point where money is not a thing, anymore. However, that conclusion will only happen in decades, if not centuries.
But the Democrats are the lesser evil of two. Just because you vote in the lesser evil doesn't mean you can't fight it, later on. Bernie Sanders knew he most likely wouldn't win, so he focused on fighting the Greater Evil: Trump, and the MAGA mob.
Ah. Thanks for telling me about this project, though!
So, do those minority protections have to be implemented in the Constitution of the country itself?
I actually thought about including that (counting abstaining as voting for no party/leader) in the post, but the problem would be people voting for the Greater Evil, because they don't really want to vote. But it would, indeed, lower the amount of people who don't vote.
Thoughts about Direct Democracy?
As the title goes - I think it's a good solution for some of the Western World's problems, like politicians not following their campaign promises. On the other hand, conflicting politics are a big possibility, which would create further problems. Any ideas?
Good list, keep it up! I'm also glad that you also used Codeberg, instead of GitHub.
You just made all of the points that I was thinking about.
Use Mojeek, it has an independent index, and no problems, AFAIK.
Yeah, and the EU should immediately step up, and triplicate support for Ukraine.
Sadly, I think it's the road Firefox is going to take. The things in the ToS are vague, when they could easily be clarified, and that is an act of bad faith towards its users. That might give an opportunity for Mozilla to use some of the things against the userbase.
The problem is that using vague language makes people suspect, because companies nowadays tend to move towards enshittification.
But with Zink support, right? My old iGPU does not support most of the Vulkan features.
I'm not even sure that we'll ever get to that point. Plus, it's not compatible with most hardware yet.