Really, are you, Herr professor?
As punishment you’d be kind enough to write down some definition, translation, differences and example where to use no and now.
I certainly don’t have that (your) level of English writing, I just found funny I could notice that one while you were teaching.
I can quite live with the quite-not-so-quiet-now-quiet cuban guy’s posts.
FWIW I’m no rebel 
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I must have missed the memo; is this thread actually about something, or does it just exist to pad the participation stats on the form?
Oh, and heads up ! Eclipse season is coming, so brace yourselves for the inevitable chaos. 
Yep. Can a thread about deleted threads be deleted, and if so, can we start a thread about deleted threads about deleted threads about …
Buffer overflow
Segmentation fault
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A post was merged into an existing topic: Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains
Ugh I really don’t want to do this. But ok. Both of these taxes need to establish current value of things in time for them to work. If calculating value doesn’t work, then these taxes don’t work.
And how do you calculate value? Liquid stocks? Just take the last transaction price before closing, right? OK but think about it, how good of a measure is it to just multiply some random price by the number of outstanding shares and conclude that this is the market cap?
Then you have illiquid stock, private stock. Things that don’t trade on a daily basis.
Then you have real estate. Something that doesn’t trade for decades. How do you calculate the value of that? You use some hedonistic blabla methods. It’s all faulty and prone to unfairness.
And then you get art, jewelry, collectibles. This is where you can make some nice write offs to balance out your gains if you’re really rich. Gaming the system becomes a profession.
To finish off, tax is a punishment. It has a chilling effect. What wealth tax is communicating is that wealth is bad. Gains tax → gains are bad. Income tax → income is bad. Don’t work extra hours, don’t save, don’t invest, then no tax for you.
I hate that I have to lay this out to a person in a FIRE forum. But life taught me as much already. Two people can be highly intelligent, argue for hours, and they will not come to an agreement.
But this is how I feel about this particular issue. I will give you the courtesy of not pretending that I don’t. I mean, I realize that it is counter-productive. Taking a deep breath and dialing down is definitely smart. I don’t know, maybe lashing out or being sarcastic is an admission of defeat?
I wonder if you had to deal with situations where you felt like your values are being attacked by legislation and then someone defends them in a polite way. It’s hard to stay calm. Because you know if you do nothing, they will come with worse ideas in the future. And if say something, it probably won’t change anything.
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For me the core of the issue is that we don’t have many here who have ACKSTHUALLY FIREd, we have many wannaFIREs, myself included. This week we (collectively) managed to lose one and alienate another, possibly two.
Let that sink in.
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You don‘t realise that i) fire was not just about saving money, there is a deep psychological side to it that you currently miss and ii) just because you think, something was better to you, doesnt mean it actually was better to you.
would you rather keep Swiss Wealth tax, or get rid of it and in return increase income tax by 25%? Remember, the first 2-3M are the most difficult. What you indicate (lets get rid of wealth tax) makes it even more difficult to even get there at the first place.
As said, we don‘t discuss absolute levels of taxation here, we only talk about means of collecting the funds (and distributing the tax burden)
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I think it’s great that all of you could express your convictions in a free-speech country.
Now you should agree to disagree.
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It doesn’t bring value tho. You know there’s people who disagree with you (you’re intelligent enough to know that while you believe in libertarian theories, it’s not the only valid model, some people put more value to empathy, shared goals, etc and hopefully you respect that).
So what do you expect, that everyone else shuts up? Or that people escalate in invective/calling the other side stupid? I don’t think you’ll convince non libertarian folks this way, and I for sure don’t think I’ll change your world view (wouldn’t want to make you feel too feminin 
). So breath and let it go.
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FWIW I personally value the debates, arguments, and different points of view.
So that’s great you could write them down and that there are some public places to share them.
And there’s value even if you won’t never ever convince one another.
For me at least, it helps understand the world I live in, a world of different human beings with different beliefs.
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Another challenge of this board is that there ia not many members that actually invest for 15+ years and have „skin in the game“ experience with crashes…
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Crazy to think the last real crash was about 18 years ago. It has really been a golden time for stock investing the last 2 decades.
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This is a nice example of how to insult without using swear words. This smug patronizing humor is very typical of you and other members of this forum. I guess I’d prefer for you to tell me to fuck off, than to disrespect me in this condescending way, thinly veiled in humor and tact.
I guess this quote is attributed to Winston Churchill:
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
I wonder if you even realize what I describe here. These phlegmatic, low energy posts may pass moderation, but to me they’re even more infuriating, because they only pretend to be friendly.
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Come on, it was an obvious reference to your earlier post about the feminization of the world…
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I created a new thread for Capital Gains Tax:
So the Cuban crisis is over? @Bojack can create a separate thread to discuss global policies on menstrual leave if it’s a concern. I don’t see any connection to the commentary on a deleted thread on Dutch taxation.
For general misogyny, including the “it’s just a joke” type, I’m sure there are other places on the internet “to be yourself”.
On a more serious note, this threat nicely summarizes the need for a general “be civil” rule, since this crap draws circles way beyond the initial topic. Well, at least it’s contained in here, but why don’t you just get over it?
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I know it was. I didn’t provide full context to what I meant by that (no, I don’t mean “women bad”, but I really don’t want to try to explain myself now, I shouldn’t have written it).
How about compensating men for the fact that they are on average bigger and have to eat more, or that they live a few years less and die earlier? You want to bridge every gap between the sexes so that everything is fair, right? Look at this bigot, he has a problem that women are menstruating!
And now you’re accusing me of misogyny, thanks a lot. Are you sure you’re not just projecting? Some misandry slipping through? Is this your way of being civil?
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Love it, makes me feel young again to see the quality of this forum approach that of what the internet used to be! (Edit: or, has become, now come to think about it, there was kind of a golden age when I first got on, around the late 90s where only fairly nerdy, smart, and totally weird people were on. That was fun and remained fun for about ~10 years, then it started going down when social media showed up, now it’s a total shitshow, in most places anyway)
There ya go, 18 years ago: Internet Commenter Business Meeting
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Happy to see at least someone enjoys this 
. But I regret getting engaged in this thread. People jumping to conclusions (including me) and I don’t think anybody gained anything, only got annoyed. Sorry for ruining your day (and mine) and I won’t be responding to this thread, or I won’t do anything productive today, lol.
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