B- is like a 6 out of 10 and a B+ is like a 7,5 out of 10 right?
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What is "Take Home"? I assume your net salary or at least that's what I would call it?
+/- 25% of taxes isn't that bad, how are the other taxes/benefit you get?
Yeah that was also my reason to say that it doesn't always work like that.
People also defend companies or system that lack transparancy, things like not publishing annual reports etc
But if a CEO does something that actually destroys the company (without question) the governance structure that most companies in most countries have will put a halt to it. If the company is of size to have an actual CEO than they will have a need for a governance structure.
The sad part is that due to whatever reason it doesn't always work like that.
Heck somebody once told me that in the US you can just fire people for whatever, which is insane to me
Civilisation is a good thing yes also having access to clean and drinkable water is a good thing, but we don't need to flush our toilets with drink water, we don't need to shower with drink water, we don't need to water our plants with drink water or wash our cars with drink water.
I drink a lot of water per day and I hate it when I am in a country where I can't, but buying jugs of 8 litter water to drink isn't the worst thing either.
And since when are we obsessed about something when we talking about hypotheticals? Cause that is what this all was, heck I didn't even start about cars, that other person did ...
Tell me your secret on how to get these things out of a building, it's already freaking hard in a house where the door doesn't open every 5 minutes.
Flies or wasps are also a completely different thing. The worst/only thing that can happen with wasps is that one doesn't move away when you take a bite and stings you.
Edit: yes I know mosquito nets etc will help against flies, but that generally doesn't help in a store (depending on the type of door even impossible). Plus once they open insects like to get in with the people at the same time and even if nothing opens they tend to find a way in a lot of buildings.
Yes I know we have plenty of ways to get water from A to B, but that isn't my point.
I am just saying that this hypothetical depends on what we would be giving up. If we can still live our lives, but we have to get water from the store instead of from the tap, I would be fine with it.
Car's are a necessary evil at the moment, and we need to change that, sadly there are a lot of people in countries like the US or Canada who actively work against biking, walking and public infrastructure.
"We need to remove the bike lanes because the fire engine can't get to point C quickly enough" meanwhile in NL they just drive over the bike lanes to get to D even quicker ....
If you work in the public sector you often don't have shareholders breathing down your neck for more profit (but it can happen). And yes smaller companies can have bullshit bosses as well, especially when they are the type that either already had decently sized companies or just wants to be the next millionaire.
It's nearly impossible to keep wasps and flies out of your store.
15% corporate tax is not even that high. It probably had some other things inside the agreement about how the base for it was calculate. That is uknown to me.
Doesn't the US have a 21% flat corporate tax anyway?
Not the person who you replied to, but if you could trade all the cars in the world to go back to using rainwater to shower/flush toilets and buy drink water I think we should take that deal.
It has already been proven countless times that having walkable/bikeable cities with the adition of public transport is better for our health and the environment. Most countries don't even have drinkable water out of the tap anyway.
The only issue is that it doesn't rain enough in a lot of countries to keep up with our water usage for showering/flushing toilets, but infrastructure to move water is as old as the Roman's, so we would find a way again.
Man I already hate it when I can't drink water out of the tap when I am travelling abroad.
Go and work for a company that gives more about other stakeholders, you see that often with smaller companies.
Just because the US has only 2 real options to vote for doesn't mean people can have different opinions. It isn't for nothing that in a country like The Netherlands we have like 40 parties, including centre parties.
. The US has been screwing around with a women’s rights amendment to our Constitution for over 100 years and we still can’t get that done To be fair to the US the 50 states basically act like they are different countries instead of different states.
never spend a cent you don’t have to This is a pretty common ethos in The Netherlands among other countries, but there is a rising trend in purchasing power and people (with or without a rise in purchasing power) are making more informed decisions and realise that often the mom and pop store option is cheaper in the long run. Heck we had a store (the Jumbo) which used to not have discounts, but saw less people buying from them that they changed it so now they are offering discounts again.
I see it a lot in the retro gaming community. In NL, a country the is 240 times smaller than the US, we have a lot more options to buy our games from. Heck I can find American limited releases easier in The Netherlands than in the US.
The issue is that we have more open positions than people looking for work, it is almost even based om the last ststistics so that’s good, but it means companies have to say no to people. Or the wait is pretty long
The US seems to have the opposite issue (I got downvotes a ton on Reddit when I said finding a job these days is easy). A lot of people can’t find a job, probably because all the companies that went bankrupt during Covid. In countries like NL where we saved the companies we have the opposite issue.
The Netherlands is fair from perfect, but all with all it is going pretty well I have to say..
At least in The Netherlands we have issues finding new employees in different businesses. It’s going down a bit, but we have 101 open positions for every 100 people without work. https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/dashboard-arbeidsmarkt
We have about 2% unemployed people compared to the entire Dutch population, but in some fields like healthcare, accountants, restaurants/cafe’s, etc. It is really hard to find people. It’s so bad that they are gonna make it easier to get your title for accountants.
Voting with your wallet really only works if you have options. In the EU it is generally easy to just not order from Amazon f.e. but I understand that isn't an option for everybody. And even if people make a choice it only works if a critical mass does it. That critical mass is pretty low for smaller stores.
I always find it weird that the wages for the US are so much higher even though most products are just cheaper over there. Partially because the sales tax is pretty low compared to VAT. The whole "automatic" difference in wages depending on where you live is BS. If I decide to travel 2 hours to work and my college decides to take a 15-minute drive/walk we should still have the same salary ffs. Different rant and I kinda understand why they do it, but wages will normally go up if they can't get anybody in the centre of new-york.
I kind of feel like they’re more Universal problems though at this point A lot of problems are yeah, some are reversed, like we in NL (Europe?) have an employee market while the US has an employer. (aka we have a lot of jobs to choose form and people in the US don´t). I just hope we can dig all of ourselves about the issues.
Apparantly they have also been removing bike lanes in some area’s….
Well yeah people confuse net with cross, that happens all the time and it's annoying, but take home is a new one for me