Buy McDonald’s stock, fire the CEO and hire someone cheap.

You can still buy a house by working at McDonald’s. All you need to do is leaving your country. Here’s a nice house in Tanjung Pinang, Bintan, Indonesia.

25000 euros.

https://www.rumah123.com/properti/tanjung-pinang/hos18668655/?price-unit-type=metersquare

They do that in the US. It hurts a lot of people leaving the US. They are the only relevant country in the world that does this.

Very bad. For example. Someone gets his income from Australia. He lives in Indonesia. Then the indonesian government will tax on the person’s worldwide income. The Australian government will tax the Australian income. The American government will tax all of the income.

Then there’s double taxation treaties to reduce the damage.

It’s nasty. USA in this instance has no right to claim that income. The person does not live in USA. The income does not come from USA.

Just an abuse of power

Parlez anglais où ta gueule 😡😡😡😡😡

Oui oui je parle beaucoup de Français mon amour 🥰

Macron sur le canapé est très chaud 😳

Ton langue est pour la poubelle 🤨

Oui oui, beaucoup de Français

Disclaimer: I do not take any responsibility for whatever random stuff I say in french

Liège… Oh no. No no no… What have you done liège? Why did you? I showed my wife all of the beautiful cities in Flanders. Then I said. Hey, let’s go to wallonia.

Liège… Why? What is the reason? Why must you suck out the souls of any resident? Dystopia. The most beautiful part is the river. Because that’s the only part where cars cannot go.

Why, liège?

RSF was just an example to show that such a ranking exists. Removing conflict of interest and the ability to censor will be what’s needed in order to have real unguided public opinion.

That’s difficult to achieve.

The major thing to think about are things like CP, obviously that needs to be removed from existence.

So there’s positives to control, but nobody does anything for free.

Like here at Lemmy, I assume an instance creator of a popular instance will be able to be bought by companies or politicians.

Like Musk just bought twitter, lots of newspaper companies are owned by oligarchs. Other sources of news are owned by governments.

There’s always a conflict of interest.

It’s difficult to get away from.

With the market cap of their SOE’s, they have a broader impact on their economy. Sure, china is the most socialist relevant country in the world as of now.

Censorship can be ranked like anything else can.

https://rsf.org/en/index like they are trying to do.

Sent you a message after clicking on your username on the post I got banned on, just to see if it reaches you.

I know Belgium isn’t socialist, we’re rather social democratic.

There’s also market socialism which doesn’t require public ownership, just that the workers own the company. Something like Huawei.

But the end result. We have a median net wealth of 250k euros per adult. I’m quite happy about that.

We have some nationalised stuff. Our commuting train company, post company, Bank and insurance, bus transport, télécommunications company. Infrabel.

The government plays a major role in our lives but they are still liberal.

They just tax and transfer. 45% of the GDP is tax revenue. Belgians are doing just fine.

Owning key industries is useful, like the french with their nuclear reactors. But you as employee it’s better to have private options as well when it comes to employment.

Like in Cuba they have 1 employer. The government. Sure, the doctors get paid the most in the country, but still they flee to other Latin American countries so that they can fund their family in a luxurious housing unit in Havana.

This is because there’s more competition to buy the doctors their services in those other Spanish speaking countries in the Americas.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike socialist economic stuff, if it’s used properly.

I despise the censorship.

With the last ban, I messaged 3 people and none of them responded even though we were having quite some conversations in the thread. So I assume it doesn’t reach. Lemme try again.

@[email protected] so bruv, what were you saying? I got banned from that thread over there.

How? How are you going to teach someone to be an engineer when the person can barely read?

They all have access to education. My wife can go follow a master in European and international law in the university of Antwerp right now if she wishes to do it. It’s in English.

She can follow baking classes. Pretty much anything. Since she arrived here with a bachelor’s degree already.

The older generation that came here without formal education. They didn’t speak English. All the effort invested in them was just to teach them Dutch. There’s training at vdab for jobs that are easy to get. But these jobs don’t pay that much.

Our economy is based on human capital. We are quite competitive on this. So to compete with natives for jobs, you need to be educated from a young age.

That’s just a reality. The best paying jobs that immigrants that can’t speak the language would get would be construction.

Yes, we very very very strong 🥰 big Forza Bruxelles, Belgians mightiest of all Europe. Our history is countless won battles one after another. We ruled the whole world, you know?

That actually makes me like her. Being critical of your own views.

Nothing more that I despise than people who choose a side of an argument just because it’s “their side”. Have a back bone. It’s okay to switch sides on certain subjects. Being an extremist is being a moron.

The part of the source you’re quoting is about 2nd generation, not first generation.

We do set a high level of segregation based on school performance. But they all have education.

I’d take this with a grain of salt. We have labour, technical and general. They each have their pros and cons. I don’t really like the way they choose who to put where. They put me in technical, after a few years I chose to go to general.

Kinda a mistake, technical had better teaching than general. Perhaps just the school, but with technical it felt like the education was just of a higher quality. While it’s ranked lower than general based on people stereotyping it.

We definitely need to get away from that kind of thing. Streamline it. All kids in the same segment and let them choose themselves what they want at age 14 instead of being chosen for at age 12.

My source says that second generation immigrants outperform native population. Simply because they have to catch up on the ladder. They see how their parents struggle. How their family struggle. They want to make the best of it.

So then they simply put in more effort. Perhaps will develope a bit of an unhealthy relationship with money but whatever.

Difficult.

https://www.nbb.be/nl/artikels/de-economische-impact-van-immigratie-belgie-0

The difference between first generation immigrants and locals/2nd generation is staggering.

The problem usually is lack of education within their home countries. That’s the difference between EU migrants and non EU migrants. I suppose.

Someone that went to school until age 14 won’t have it as easy to integrate. Mostly they’ll get minimum wage jobs. Which don’t pay taxes.

That’s why they do bad on statistics I guess.

But nowadays, places around the world have been booming education wise. Now it’s pure brain drain to get young abled people to come here.

The statistics are more based on older generations, which globally, were less educated.

These people can’t legally enter the country as far as I’m aware. So yeah, they become homeless.

Giving money to economic refugees that aren’t self sufficient is just… at best, turning them into baby factories for next generation worker bees.

My country has an aging population, perhaps it’s beneficial? Not sure.

Actually it’s easy to see if it’s beneficial. Look at social refugees. Their kids get higher education.

There’s enough war in the world though. We don’t need economic refugees on top of the social refugees.

But then again, need to question how easy those economic refugees are to integrate.

They aren’t traumatised by war, so it should be easier.

A lot of angles to look from

The 31,5k USD was because of emergency services lol. What do you think emergency services are? Goes to hospital. By law cannot be refused treatment. It’s expensive.

Being housed prevents needing those medical services that cannot be refused. Hence it’s cheaper to house someone.

The cheapest option is to let them die.

Social housing isn’t about getting people to be self sufficient. It’s just about giving them a comfortable life.

The return on investment comes from their children. Not the parents.

if you want to show a source that it’s good for the economy. Then show one where the person’s taxes outweigh their social transfers.

Which is difficult to do for older people. They need investments, then they do low paying jobs. The difference between their low paying jobs and doing nothing is basically the same amount of income.

So they don’t have much motivation. Their income during their work life is low, then they get a pension. Net loss for government.

Their kids however. They went to school at a young age, get higher education. They get a well paying job. Very profitable.

We have social housing here in Belgium, you get it after waiting 2 years. Which means… only the chronic low income people get it. They usually die in it. Cheap rent.

Here you don’t become homeless easily. You have unemployment benefits. You don’t get medical bankruptcy. You get living wage. Blablabla

Temporary income shocks are completely taken by social security. These people don’t get social housing because they can just continue paying their mortgage or rent.

So you already need to take these people out of your studies. Because yeah, giving housing to short term homeless people will be very beneficial. They just are in-between jobs.

Now, the ones that have social housing, there’s something wrong there. They aren’t self sufficient because of chronic reasons. These people will worsen the results of your studies.

It’s like looking at immigration studies and including the EU immigrants with the non EU immigrants. While one part obviously scores better than the other.

Still takes years to learn the language with those classes and these classes are social transfers to the immigrants, but a good investment with return.

The requirement is neither of those things. The requirement is self sufficiency.

If you’re rich enough, then I don’t care if you don’t learn the language and that you don’t work.

You’re spending into our economy with likely passive income coming from your global investments.

Or you have family members that take care of your cost of living. All fine.

If you want to have a job, then as I priorly stated. Either in Dutch or English.

Both would work. If the infrastructure is in English, then the ability to make immigrants self sufficient becomes a lot easier. Good for our economy.

If we don’t want to do these investments, then the immigrant needs to learn Dutch.

Those are the only options.

My wife speaks English at her job. Did 2 Dutch classes. Most of the people in flanders speak English so communication goes well.

Ego of natives to be spoken to by their preferred language is economically irrelevant so I ignore that.