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Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by sapphire42 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:34PM (#42054034)
You call a tax fraud investigation "needlessly harassing the business of sovereign individuals?"

You're right, the U.S. is very business and industry friendly, which explains why the American people have been getting poorer and poorer while corporations and their shareholders get richer and richer.

Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by overstay8930 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @03:59PM (#42055107)
The Average American is getting richer and richer, especially compared to European wage stagnation. I don’t think non-Americans understand how rich middle class americans are.
Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by lomase on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @04:15PM (#42055233)
Only 50% of Americans have Passports. 80% in Europe.

We understand it, because we travel there on vacations.

My last time in America I went to San Francisco, I have not seen a worst place to live in my life, and I have been in Africa.

Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by lacy_tinpot on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @05:14PM (#42055659)
And other places don’t understand the sheer amount of wealth and freedom other people have. "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap" and San Francisco spends billions to look that cheap btw.

Especially Europe. Europeans don’t even seem to understand how large America is, which is why so few have passports.

Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by lomase on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:46AM (#42061410)
America, the land of the free... the place where I could not even walk at night because the streets were full of homless people.
Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by lacy_tinpot on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:06PM (#42079158)
Just carry a gun.

Self-defense is an absolute right unlike other places.

Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by lomase on Friday November 08, 2024 @12:03PM (#42088404)
Carrying weapons for self defense was a think people had to do around here in the Middle ages.
Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by lacy_tinpot on Saturday November 09, 2024 @05:09PM (#42097210)
And in a free societies the people themselves are the enforcers and protectors. That's why we even have a jury system in place.

In America the people are responsible, not the government or their enlightened bureaucrats.

Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by lacy_tinpot on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @03:03PM (#42054703)
Who do you think the corporations are? Who do you think the small businesses are? Usurping the free enterprise of the American people and selling it as "freedom" is a sly tactic. Those industries, those corporation, those businesses ARE the American people.

The government can never ever actually represent the people. It cannot act in the best interest of the people.

You know why?

Because it's made of people, and those people can only act in the best interest of themselves. They will never ever act in the best interest of other people, because people physically cannot.

So why are Americans getting "poorer"

Well they're not. This is absolutely false. The American people are getting richer. The American people have a widening wealth gap, but that is far from increasing poverty.

That increasing wealth gap is due to restrictions imposed by enlightened bureaucrats on people getting wealthy, in collusion with the old money old industry extremely wealthy incumbents.

In other words the State apparatus is hijacked by the incumbents that assume their survival is the survival the American people, hence they are "public". That state apparatus will never ever attempt to dismantle the very thing that feeds it.

That's why it hates newcomers and that's why the state apparatus must go.

Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by immibis on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @05:05PM (#42055594)
Take a walk around San Francisco and then say poverty isn't a problem.
Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by mianos on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @03:20PM (#42054819)
Americans have been getting richer and richer according to most recent studies. At the same time, other socialist countries are getting, on average, poorer. I think you may be confusing social inequality with overall wealth.