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Well yeah people confuse net with cross, that happens all the time and it's annoying, but take home is a new one for me

B- is like a 6 out of 10 and a B+ is like a 7,5 out of 10 right?

What is "Take Home"? I assume your net salary or at least that's what I would call it?

+/- 25% of taxes isn't that bad, how are the other taxes/benefit you get?

Yeah that was also my reason to say that it doesn't always work like that.

People also defend companies or system that lack transparancy, things like not publishing annual reports etc

But if a CEO does something that actually destroys the company (without question) the governance structure that most companies in most countries have will put a halt to it. If the company is of size to have an actual CEO than they will have a need for a governance structure.

The sad part is that due to whatever reason it doesn't always work like that.

Heck somebody once told me that in the US you can just fire people for whatever, which is insane to me

Civilisation is a good thing yes also having access to clean and drinkable water is a good thing, but we don't need to flush our toilets with drink water, we don't need to shower with drink water, we don't need to water our plants with drink water or wash our cars with drink water.

I drink a lot of water per day and I hate it when I am in a country where I can't, but buying jugs of 8 litter water to drink isn't the worst thing either.

And since when are we obsessed about something when we talking about hypotheticals? Cause that is what this all was, heck I didn't even start about cars, that other person did ...

Tell me your secret on how to get these things out of a building, it's already freaking hard in a house where the door doesn't open every 5 minutes.

Flies or wasps are also a completely different thing. The worst/only thing that can happen with wasps is that one doesn't move away when you take a bite and stings you.

Edit: yes I know mosquito nets etc will help against flies, but that generally doesn't help in a store (depending on the type of door even impossible). Plus once they open insects like to get in with the people at the same time and even if nothing opens they tend to find a way in a lot of buildings.

Yes I know we have plenty of ways to get water from A to B, but that isn't my point.

I am just saying that this hypothetical depends on what we would be giving up. If we can still live our lives, but we have to get water from the store instead of from the tap, I would be fine with it.

Car's are a necessary evil at the moment, and we need to change that, sadly there are a lot of people in countries like the US or Canada who actively work against biking, walking and public infrastructure.

"We need to remove the bike lanes because the fire engine can't get to point C quickly enough" meanwhile in NL they just drive over the bike lanes to get to D even quicker ....

If you work in the public sector you often don't have shareholders breathing down your neck for more profit (but it can happen). And yes smaller companies can have bullshit bosses as well, especially when they are the type that either already had decently sized companies or just wants to be the next millionaire.

It's nearly impossible to keep wasps and flies out of your store.

15% corporate tax is not even that high. It probably had some other things inside the agreement about how the base for it was calculate. That is uknown to me.

Doesn't the US have a 21% flat corporate tax anyway?

Not the person who you replied to, but if you could trade all the cars in the world to go back to using rainwater to shower/flush toilets and buy drink water I think we should take that deal.

It has already been proven countless times that having walkable/bikeable cities with the adition of public transport is better for our health and the environment. Most countries don't even have drinkable water out of the tap anyway.

The only issue is that it doesn't rain enough in a lot of countries to keep up with our water usage for showering/flushing toilets, but infrastructure to move water is as old as the Roman's, so we would find a way again.