but through businesses taking loans.

… Also called “printing money”.

The classic inflation from the economy working a little too well is not a flat tax, since both wages and prices are growing

Inflation doesn’t cause wages to grow proportionally, despite what some Harvard wankers like to pretend. Theoretical models are interesting in science, but for something like economy, they are completely useless.

Classic inflation erodes the savings of the rich, and erodes the debts of the poor.

Capital ROI is almost always greater than inflation, meaning wealth inequality increases regardless of inflation. This is before taking into account that physical assets (e.g. housing) also increase in value through inflation, meaning the owning class never loses money to inflation.

Again, theory and practice diverge pretty much entirely.

Inflation is a concept created by governments to be able to run on a perpetual deficit (necessary when you privatise everything profitable by selling it to your buddies). Making a tax on the poor is a “nice” benefit, but don’t be mistaken: if the owning class saw it as a threat to their wealth we’d be back to the gold standard already.

Why would the Dutch/Polish/Germans speak more languages?

2nd most exciting thing in the USA is randomly bashing France (#1 obviously being school shootings)

There are more varieties of accents inside London than across the entire US. You understood their point, no need to be pedantic.

Parent comment was about Germany, so no not really. The Germans (including the whole DACH area) are as much fun as the Japanese. Although when it comes to car it’s more or less free for all

I doubt these people support feudalism?

Also happened before that year in France, that first in the world claim is bs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_the_Vendée

Is a good inspiration

Are you implying 20% body fat is low?

Boubou imperialism has consequences

People joke about everything, stop with this US exceptionalism

I mean, foreign born does include our eastern European neighbours :)

How do think Claude sounds as stupid as it does?

What’s the point when those are never enforced? Enforcement of trafic law is much more important than the concrete punishment. As you said yourself, being able to pay a fine does not mean you want to receive one.

Please remove Germany from your list, they make the rest of us look bad.

That’s not white guilt, it’s just racism. Not every form of racism need you to dress up like a ghost with a pointy hat.

It’s funny you feel the need to inverse the genders in your story because you realise how ridiculous your point would be if we stuck to the original genders.

Of course these people benefited too. Why do you demography in Asia/Africa boomed over the last century?

They’re not ASCII characters you dipshit. Learn how to use a computer before going around lecturing others.

So edgy, so revolutionary, so brave. Please teach me how to be cool like you

Millennials were not voting 50 years ago.