To answer to your first question, we don't have such demanding 9-5 jobs. I can step out for an hour and no one will notice I'm missing, I'm invisible at work and it's the way I like it
Green party leader in the UK wants to tax all personal assets worth over £10m and £1b annually. He's got some good policies but will never win because my country is full of racists who will vote for Reform
There are people out there in decent positions to tax the rich, there just are not enough voters who want it enough
Just commenting to support and remind you upvote/downvote counts are not representative of correctness.
I'm british and although it's easy easy to believe we all walk and get thr bus, the TRUTH is 6% of our schoolchildren have fully complete end to end transport paid by the state (yes taxis) - this is usually due to negligence of the parents.
There is a real requirement for kids to be picked up by cars and removing that option will only hurt the education of the innocent child.
People on this site are very quick to binary extremism and would immediately struggle if given power of choice over others in real world scenarios.
in the uk price per kWh for electricity is over five times cost of natural gas. We all use natural gas boilers to heat water which flows through radiators to warm our rooms. Anybody who heats their house with space heaters is just throwing money away whether it's 100% efficient or not.
You see more heatpumps these days but that's another thing entirely
Yes you do have to put your bag in a special place. If you dont, and the item you scanned (which they already know much it weighs) wont add to the total weight of the scales and it won't let you scan another item or pay.
It's effectively impossible to accidentally steal something.
in the UK they weigh the baggage area and if you don't scan something it'll shout "UNEXPECTED ITEM IN THE BAGGAGE AREA" as loud as the mf beep and you get publicly shamed by all the whiter than white old people.
anyone who puts bags outside the weighing area gets looked at too, there's no real way round without going for the old pockets
Wait, you think green party isn't left leaning? They gained seats last election with their 2 million votes. who's to say they are not a mainstream political party
Obligatory face jacker reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilBb-qNrp3E