Ah yes, good old Rubber-hose cryptanalysis.

And yet, car insurance is too cheap in the U.S: https://thewaroncars.org/2024/03/19/122-car-insurance-is-too-cheap/

Cars are quite simply way too expensive, both on an individual and societal level.

Devices running Android TV can have all kinds of different apps sideloaded onto them, including alternative launchers. I suggest using one.

It’s not a safe monopoly at all, though. Most of my “question”-style queries now go directly to an LLM-based alternative, on account of how much Google search results have dropped in quality for that type of query. I only really use Google directly for stuff like finding something that I specifically know what I’m looking for, but don’t know the exact link to.

Thanks, updated. I think my mistake stems from Swedish only having one word for the concept, regardless of the direction of the transaction.

57% is the tax on “one-time gains” - bonuses and other such things.

This means that you’re probably overpaying on it, but you might also be underpaying on your income taxes (usually ~30% even if you reach the ~50%-tax bracket). Worst case scenario, you’ve lent some money interest-free to the government that you get back on your tax returns.

I don’t buy this argument - if you’re going to claim something to be the case, it should at least vaguely resemble the truth. Going by the ‘rules’ of this meme, Sweden should be right next to the U.S, or even take the U.S’ place given that the U.S ranks better on wealth equality (not income equality where Sweden ranks better).

We should absolutely tax billionaires more. We should make memes about it to spread the word. We should also make those memes at least kind of accurate.

To understand one significant downside of this - Swedes reading this meme might think that we don’t have a billionaire-taxation problem in our country. That’s actively harmful to the cause.

Wow, this is just entirely wrong. Completely and utterly wrong.

Sweden has a maximum of around 55% income tax bracket if you’re in a municipality with high income tax, but billionaires never are and as such would be taxed probably at most 50% income tax bracket.

This is of course entirely irrelevant because billionaires don’t make their money on income. Sweden has fairly low capital gains taxes - 30% on regular accounts, and a special account that taxes the whole account value by a low percentage, which shakes out in average years to even lower taxes on capital. This assumes you even keep your capital in the country, which is a big if.

There’s also no inheritance tax, no gift tax and no property tax. Sweden is actually an unusually good place to be a billionaire as far as taxation goes, and a below average place to earn a high salary as far as taxation goes.

Worst one is clearly at the bottom - imagine people thinking that you are 🤢 br*tish 🤮

Their attempt to maliciously comply is both against the spirit of the law - making it a violation in the EU regardless - and the letter of the law: the text mentions that they can’t charge for this.

Time for a nice 10% of global revenues-fine. That’ll do some good in the coffers of the EU.

Among the ways you can do layoffs, this is one of the better ones for sure. People who are kind of checked out already anyway can get a nice paycheck on their way out and start looking for something new, while people who still have something important to get out of the job get the option to stay.

Consent matters!