Maeve

Unfortunately, it’s pretty common reaction from a people who’s government has actively sown division amongst themselves, as well as anything/anyone foreign. It’s understandable and regrettable. I’d like to see a lot less division among regular people of the world, personally.

If you’re posting in good faith, maybe just lurk more, get a feel for the place. If you aren’t posting in good faith, that’s on you.

There’s definitely a cultural disconnect. The culture of being open in the West about salary is within the workplace, to encourage fair wages (not that it works, but it can). In case you’re asking in good faith, outside the workplace, it’s considered rude to ask, rude to offer the information if seen as braggadocios. It’s still a little rude if the salary is below livable wages, because it makes people making more uncomfortable. And maybe it should.

www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/neurosurgeon-salary (terrible website, fair warning)

How much does a Neurosurgeon make? As of June 01, 2025, the average annual salary for a Neurosurgeon in the United States is $696,301. According to Salary.com, salaries can range from a low of $367,513 to a high of $1,049,352, with most professionals earning between $524,201 and $881,101.

That means in the US, a lot of people who need surgery aren’t getting it.

😒

Anyone not plain vanilla and falling in line, apparently. Unless you’re fabulously wealthy or otherwise “useful.”

US American here and I agree.

Property damage isn’t violence, in this context.

Thanks for that. I need to reread it a couple of times and stew on it for a good while. Being from the USA, my perspective is obviously skewed from that perspective. My immediate question arises from generations behind baby boomers who never had the opportunity of home ownership (and related maintenance/tax expenses), who may be able to inherit properties, if not having to be signed over to the state for necessary elder care expenses. In this situation, the beneficiary have wealth, but have to sell the property to pay taxes, then be taxed on savings, and still unable to afford modest housing, rented or bought.

In this example, my immediate thought is in favor of doing away with sales and/or VAT, but having aggressively progressive income taxes, with income under $x being exempted, or even negative tax burden*.

*Kitten bumped device before sentence completed.

Sure, and that’s extremely important context that should be included, because

taxes are a way - and always have been - to redistribute from the poor to the rich. Sounds about right.

Comes off sounding ancap or USA style libertarian.

Exactly.

We were, but being set to expire in a decade and redundant 24 hour news cycles means they were designed to be forgotten.

Can you find and link me to the article? Ideally, they’re to fund public necessities, schools and other infrastructure, roads, etc, fire departments, sanitation, defense, anything used by the collective.

I watch those sometimes too. NGL, some are twisted tho

The government did not speak of the roundtable before its election win, the size of which has spurred calls from economists, think tanks and some MPs for Labor to consider broader reform to tackle issues such as reducing the reliance on income taxes…

The rest of the article details going the same route the USA has followed since Nixon. Do. not. open. the. door. to this. Please, for your own sakes.

Autocorrect corrected now.

The thing is, no one manipulated against their own values think they are. A quick glance at your upvotes* shows plenty agree, but among those are at odds with each other. And that’s fine, we just need to be willing to listen to other opinions, and recognize no one has a truth monopoly, and none are free of our own cognitive biases.

History may not remember my words. But it will remember how dissenters were treated.

That can be remedied with effort.

Blursed * humanity