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  • Waryle@jlai.lutoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes?
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    6 days ago

    That’s not brain drain. Brain drain is when high qualified people leave their country, mostly because of the lack of infrastructures costing them opportunities for studying or working in their respective field.

    What you’re talking about is capital flight. This is an issue that is systematically raised as a counter-argument by liberals in debates on taxation. The problem is that it is seriously overestimated:

    • Leaving a country is a lot more complicated than it sounds: you lose your family, your friends, your culture, your habits. Many millionaires who leave their country end up coming back after a few years.
    • You can’t relocate your real estate investments.
    • Going abroad doesn’t exempt you from paying taxes (especially exit taxes).
    • A country that wishes to do so can prohibit the relocation of a profitable company, or even nationalize it.
    • Many rich people who threaten to leave if taxes are raised end up doing the math: if there’s a profitable business, they’ll stay. And in a country that finances its infrastructure soundly and has a good distribution of wealth, there’s profitable business to be had.
  • Waryle@jlai.lutoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Pros / cons of riding a bike?
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    5 months ago
    • Those are tires, not wheels.
    • 35% which uses them means that 65% don’t use them.
    • You said “no matter gear you have”, so you can’t use that point.
    • With 20cm of fresh snow, even a normal car would be stuck. But if you tell me that you use a special car (a pick-up for example), I will argue that you can use a special bike (such as a fat bike) and roll with it without problem.
  • Waryle@jlai.lutoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Pros / cons of riding a bike?
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    5 months ago

    And we could save a lot of people if they put on helmets to walk down stairs, and yet I don’t see anyone saying that people are stupid not to wear them.

    And your friend, if he drives at 30mph, of course he has to wear a helmet, but the subject is not a sporty practice of cycling, but bike commuting. And helmets does not protect you from a shitty infrastructure and tank-like cars that run you over, so maybe it would be good to stop insulting people and bring some nuance to this debate.