I forgot, all media and eye witnessing the problem is not enough for a keyboard warrior.
Nowhere near as cold as the great lakes. Different culture. Major cities have larger homeless populations than smaller cities for a number of other reasons, which yes, include ease of obtaining benefits.
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You don’t see nearly as many homeless people in areas where it freezes in the winter and the few you do see are seasonal. I guess they are migratory. Is it like the modern version of hunter gatherers where they pack up and move around according to seasons?
Please tell us more how many rose tinted goggles you wear daily
Remember, Brewa works from home, so he probably hasn’t left his house since the 80’s.
Not migratory, no. They come here and stay here because the weather is mild and they’re tolerated.
We also don’t like dumping our problems on other states like places like Florida do.
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That is a false statement if I ever read one. The masses relocate to Florida for the weather, COLA, and taxes. Miami and the Keys have some of the highest earners in the country.
You can’t even keep track of what we’re talking about. Ignore list, meet sniffz.
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Nfffff the jealousy is real.
Imagine having to burn gas each day to go to a sterile office when you could be lounging in your own yard for an extra hour or two.
Go enjoy your corporate sanctioned break area and only slightly overpriced snacks.
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He’s talking about the influx of illegal immigrants being taken from Florida and dropped off at Kamala Harris’ house because she’s a do nothing VP.
It’s standard Demoncratic, Brewa speak for shifting goalposts.
What a sad panda, unable to keep the discussion on point. You throw false statements with an ideology leaning one way. You are unable to have a discussion where facts are brought in.
Only his opinions are labeled as facts
Anything else that shreds his theories is fake to him apparently
Value is relative to demand. When corporate workplaces are in cities and require everyone to live nearby, the demand for housing goes up. Demand up = costs up depending on supply.
There are also all the people who provide services like food, ride/transport, coffee, laundry, shopping, janitorial services, etc. They likely need inexpensive places to live too, but those are also in low supply so costs go up. That forces them to commute too = even more traffic.
The banks and investors who own the real estate don’t want to see demand for city housing, office space, huge buildings, etc. go down because then the value of said real estate drops. When nobody wants to live in a city anymore because they are no more job/quality of life is poor, the real estate becomes super cheap and the investors lose money.
See Detroit.
The banks are terrified at the idea that workplaces won’t need to be concentrated in one place and that demand will drop.
Small towns love it and are happy to have remote workers. It brings UP the value when active folks with income are buying homes, doing house projects, paying taxes that support roads/schools/hospitals, utilizing restaurants and entertainment, etc.
What what happens with any major BRAC move, when the employer leaves, the towns drop in value. Where they move to goes up in value and expands to meet the desires of that work force.
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If there’s one thing the French can do, its riot.
Its not like they’re without their problems, the fact they riot over anything and the fact their unions have a firm grip on the their government’s private parts probably has a lot to do with their high unemployement rates. Kinda hard to work if business owners would rather do business anywhere else.
Customer service over there is also abysmal, when you can get served at all.
People need to realize employer/employees relationship needs to be a balancing act cause whenever either side gets the upper hand things are worse for everyone.
on the other hand, people can afford to live and eat. french people aren’t filing bankruptcy because they had the audacity to get sick or injured. so it’s not all bad.
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Yeah they just pay at least 25% of their salary in income tax +20% TVA on everything they buy.
Nothing’s free folks.
As somebody who works with our European branches every day, the perks of European workers are crazy good.
Like the mandatory vacations. If they hit capped vacation time, they MUST take vacation. Meanwhile I’m perpetually sitting at capped PTO because our schedule is so busy I can’t find time to take time off.
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And as someone with family in Brittany all i’m saying is that it comes at a cost.
People don’t seem to realize, at least for middle class people, the main difference between places like France and Canada and the US is how much the governments holds your hand and spend your own money for you.
Yes being poor in the US is worse but that’s not really relevant when you discuss job conditions of software devs for example.
Individually. Your value is relative to demand. When a corporate workplace or industry is established near cities or ports, the value becomes that workplace or industry because of its demand for workers. Workers generate income. Income generates taxes.
Overall the cost of living goes up, but the wages also go up along with it. It’s until government starts subsidizing certain aspects than businesses aren’t pressured into filling that gap.
The banks and investors don’t want their real estate not being used. An empty building generates them nothing. But this notion that RTO was created by banks and investors to keep people in buildings is ridiculous.
And that’s a BAD thing. For everyone.
No they don’t. Businesses bring up property values. Industry. Corporate offices. Real estate is the driving factor of wealth anywhere in the country. It’s so bizarre to think small towns somehow get bigger because a few WFH people move in on the outskirts compared to if they allowed Amazon to build a Distribution center, or let a microchip manufacturer build a plant.
That’s such a ridiculous notion.
The town drops in value because the business leaves, so why on earth do you think the value goes up in a few WFH people move in?
You talk like we’re not paying a large chunk of our income in taxes in the U.S. We do.
Because it’s not just income tax, we also pay for today’s retirees with our social security & medicare taxes.
I have to pay additional pre-tax money for my flex savings account because we don’t have universal health care. That’s basically another tax.
And while we don’t have a 20% VAT, we definitely have sales taxes in most of the country (except the states that bilk the other states for federal subsidies instead).
The tax burden is also massively uneven, in the U.S. You get massive cash back if you’re in debt, but only if it’s the right kind of debt. We’re a socially selective society where some people (like people with mortgage debt) are getting tax welfare at the expense of everybody else.
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