Their property sector bubble popped in 2020: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
They haven't recovered and have been going full Baghdad Bob with their GDP numbers in an attempt to hide the problem: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlanticcouncil.or...
No ERP system is on-prem? Well what's all this open source code on GitHub I could easily use on-prem then:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fadempiere%2Fa...
Not survivor bias, employment in the sector has consistently been growing year of year: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffred.stlouisfed.org%2Fse...
LOL. Typical Slashdot bullshit.
Remember 15 years ago when everyone on Slashdot was paranoid that we were all going to lose our jobs to Indian outsourcing? Pepperidge Farm remembers -- and, oh look, we're still here!
History doesn't repeat itself, but it surely does rhyme
Are you being sarcastic, or are you high?
Maybe, but, more importantly, stablecoins are the only part of the crypto world that isn't a giant tulipmania bubble. Imagine you develop a payment card with an ARM chip in it, or a phone app or whatever, that lets you transfer bitcoins to a merchant at a cash register. Cool tech, but useless, because what merchant in their right mind wants to take payment in fake money?
Now imagine the same thing, but it's a stablecoin backed by $1 deposited in an escrow fund for every $1 token issued, and imagine the transaction fee is 0.1%, versus the 3%+ merchants currently have to pay in card processing fees.
Now your tech has just put Visa and Mastercard out of business.
Yeah, Roth or traditional IRA funds work. That's what I did
No, see, the money doesn't have to be in their bank; it can also be in their brokerage arm. So, if you have $100k, just move some stocks or mutual funds over from another brokerage to U.S. Bancorp Investments, and you get the 4% with no opportunity cost.
It really is a spectacular card for people who have that level of assets.
That doesn't sound like a healthy relationship. I would suggest you consider either finding a way to either make it healthy or ending it. Counseling can help.
It's not that different in the US from what you say Europe is like. If you're not doing anything "interesting", like making weird investments or running your own business, you basically just plug your W-2 and any 1099s you have into tax software you purchase and it fills in everything for you.
And, I expect that if you ever do "interesting" things in Europe, like running a business, being a landlord, or fronting money for someone's restaurant in exchange for equity, you will find that calculating your taxes has suddenly become much more involved.
Btw I am developing open-source tax software because it's dominated by proprietary products made by somewhat evil companies right now. Unfortunately, I only have bandwidth to make a completely non-user-friendly command-line version of it right now, and I also only have bandwidth to add support for the forms I currently personally need.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Flinuxrocks1...
The fact that you found a 1-page form asking you where you live and what country's citizenship you hold to be completely incomprehensible probably says more about your country's education system than about the IRS.
Why do that? Presidential alerts have literally never been used. If they ever are, it will probably be because of something very serious. It's probably a very bad idea to mess with them.
With less than 1% taking it, I wouldn't consider it that much of a viable option.
How many people take it has nothing to do with whether it is "viable" for you to take it. SAG-AFTRA fair share fee payers were allowed to work non-union productions during the strike and thus had a much better time of things than union members who could not do that.
Even if you're not "required" to strike, unlike them, if a strike does happen and you can't work, you're not going to be paid by the union for not working
My best research indicates you do get strike pay if you're a fair share fee payer, although I'd like better than a district court decision from 1982:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com...
And the union technically has no obligations to them either, despite them having to pay the fees.
The union has an obligation to negotiate contracts which cover all fee payers.
You might not be required to strike when they do, but given the violence that unions in the USA are willing to do during strikes to people, union or not, who still go to work, plus what's it like when a huge portion of the other workers are gone...
The vast majority of strikes are entirely nonviolent, even in the US.
If you're paying 90-100% of the dues to the union already, why NOT be a member? Even if you're not "required" to strike, unlike them, if a strike does happen and you can't work, you're not going to be paid by the union for not working, you don't get a vote in whether to strike or not, etc... At that point, you might as well be part of the union. The difference is a lot like me being allowed to drop "under god" in the pledge of allegiance.
"Can't work?" I imagine your employer will be very happy to have you continue working while many of your coworkers are standing outside with picket signs like petulant children.
Do you happen to have a citation on this? That being a "fair share fee payer" and thus working union positions is even an option?
Citations:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sagaftra.org%2Ffinan...
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