TotallyRepost · Verified · 3 points ·
Shift your marketing to those who still have wealth

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Yes, it is 4% annually
10M*4%=400k
400k/12 Months=~34k/Month

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Snapping
Pros:
-Tax-free
-Always available
-Cool party trick
Cons:
-Still technically manual labor
-Inflation will eventually *** it

Instant $10M
Pros:
-Massive, no-strings lump sum
-Invest smart, inflation-proof income
-Set-for-life potential
Cons:
-IRS will want answers
-Finite pile, spend it dumb and it's gone

$10M is enough to live comfortably without doing much. Invest it safely at around 4% and you're looking at roughly $34k/month without touching the principal. The tricky part is explaining to tax authorities where it came from without you having a paper trail for it, you might end up googling "how to launder money" and hoping the FBI doesn't read your search history. The snap option is quieter. Unless you push it too far, it's unlikely to raise suspicion. At 0,75 snaps per second for eight hours, you'd make about $216k in a day. Invest that and you could get the best of both worlds. Passive income and infinite top up.
I'd go with the snap.

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Ah, then we kind of talked past each other a bit.
Yes, that's an understandable point, and it's one I can support. In my circle of friends, we've often discussed this as well. For us, it always came down to the question of sorting, how do you ensure that only freeloaders are affected?
We haven't found a clean/perfect solution for that. Either a few people who actually need help are left behind, whether due to a strong sense of shame or whatever else (there could be a thousand reasons why someone doesn't want to or more aptly can't seek help), or you just accept that you'll end up feeding a few shrewd freeloaders.

I personally think that even if we had a perfect procedure, it wouldn't actually solve the problems in this regard, because in my opinion it wouldn't really free up that much money (if at all, especially when considering the bureaucratic aparatus that would have to be in place to manage such distribution and verification).

I rather have the feeling that it is a clever distraction from (((those))) who control the funds and might be looking for a scapegoat for the tight(/mismanaged) budget.

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Your reasoning is understandable, but if cuts are too sweeping/broad and the lower classes lose most of their purchasing power, the entire economy suffers. Without money in the hands of consumers, demand for goods and services collapses, which is leading to reduced supply, fewer jobs, and a deeper recession. Discount stores may continue to exist, but in reduced numbers and thus offering fewer jobs to this class.

In Germany, for instance, about 6% of the population receives "Bürgergeld" (welfare benefits), while roughly 20% is considered at risk of poverty. Poverty severely limits social mobility and access to quality education, which in turn reduces the supply of well-trained skilled workers, which will be hurting Germany’s long-term competitiveness.

The counterintuitive truth of a consumer-driven economy is that you often need to invest to solve problems. Injecting capital into struggling segments of society sustains demand, strengthens the labor force, and fosters long-term growth. Lack of investment usually worsens problems in unforeseen ways. As seen the in the emergence of the gig-economy as an example.

Of course, this holds only if funds are used effectively and not lost to corruption, a whole different (and in my opinion) worse issue.

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Actually based. I think this is less an exercise for the children but rather to emphasize what corpocratic slog is pressed into the minds of the young. That is if the passing adults recognize the subtle criticism.
It also could be that the given teacher actually celebrates this, but I find that more unlikely than the first option; shit wages and working with the current generation tends to push one towards cynicism.

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Town of Salem IRL

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WW2 was such a fever dream if you look into it.
For example if Hitler and the Minister of Foreign Affairs weren't such weebs than Japan would not have been in the Axis and most likely China instead.
They said to Japan that this is an anti communism alliance, what did Germany do next? Do a pact with the Soviets.
Also Italy was staunchly against Austria joining Germany as they had a vested interest in Austria as a buffer state and even mobilized troops against Germany... until they were okay with it????

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Stolen, but valid.

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I can understand it being smoked, it does stink and linger and if a small but sizable group smokes (regularly) the smell can get almost everywhere. Personally I would think about sneaking edibles in. Can't imagine they would care that much about it in that case. I think a cannabis sedated passenger, is a good passenger or at least a better one than completely boozed up.


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