🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@alexandria All 2fa already has provisio s for this. You simply backup securiely the shared secret you use when creating your 2fa. You can store thrm in a password manager and if you loose your 2fa you can thrn just restore it from the backup shared secrets.

@pmonks i never said the wealthy "predominately" generate wealth. Yes they are wealth generators, everyone else can be too.

You really are trying hard to ram that square peg in a round hole so you can use your talking points... but again i said nothing of the sort.

Yea that definition you just provide has absolutely no relationshop to what i said. Never said it trickles down, never claimed it benefits everyone to give them cuts or breaks either.

@pmonks

I wrote the toot, nothing in what you quoted implies there is any trickle down effect or even, as you imply, that they are the only ones generating wealth

@pmonks No i didnt... nothing in the quote i made implies trickle down, nothing.

I also never said the wealthy were the engine or the only ones generating wealth, nor did i even say they generate the majority of wealth.

My god man read what i said not what you want to hear.

@pmonks @opendna

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@pmonks No not even remotely related. At no point did i suggest rich people having money or keeping their money was needed to ensure the poorer and middle class people would benefit.

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@pmonks Nope no one said anything about trickle down.

@pmonks @opendna @QasimRashid

Saying it isnt abusive also doesnt make it so. Clearly this is my interpritstikn.

@pmonks @opendna @QasimRashid

I literally used the official govt tax burden calculator in both cases... no the nunbers are accurate.

@jaysonmassey then dont thats fine. No need for you to get antagonistic. Just walk away if you dont want to talk.

@mc lol i wont touch php witha 10 foot pool. All due respect to php devs though.

@trinsec Me and a few people have been mulling over the idea

@sergeant probably true

If i write a replacement to mastodon from scratch what language should i pick that woukd make it kost likely that you woukd contribute to the project?

@zyk@mastodon.nz not for nothing but there is an issue around owning your own data. If your user admin suspends you you cant migrate to new servers or move your account. Considering how aggressive many instance admins are about susoending this is a pretty legitimate point.

@hanchmanj @pmonks

No she was offered a normal job at normal pay. **She** asked her employer to pay her under table so she could keep her tax money as extra. The employer helped her out. The employer gained nothing so they didnt exploit anything.

That said you are pretending like everyone in the middle class is an a w2 worker and not a 1099 worker. 1099 workers can just skip paying taxes and has little to do with who is paying them.

She asked to miss out on protections, and since the employer doesnt need to provide any sort of health insurance the employer wasnt saving anything.

@hanchmanj @pmonks

No thats just completely disconnected from reality. My mom worked under the table her whole life.. She was documented and asked her employer to pay her under the tabke so she could make more...

And yes there is a motivation to show income for loans, but most people working under the table cant get loans anyway.

@hanchmanj @pmonks

Yea thats just plain wrong.

@opendna @pmonks @QasimRashid

A person making 489 euros in the netherlands will pay about 233 euros in taxes, or the very abusive tax rate of about 48%

On 45k euros income the dutch will pay about 13k or 29%

Similarly in the usa 489 equivelant in euros of income would cost you 35.5% effective rate and 41.5% marginal rate.

So no this is incorrect, at 489K while the taxes are a nice chink less in the US it is also quite a bit higher than the 45K levdl as you suggest also.