Buy McDonald’s stock, fire the CEO and hire someone cheap.

Why do they stay in USA then. There are plenty of countries where one can earn a better net worth.

USA is an immigrant country. Non of you are natives. Do what your ancestors did. Leave.

What’s the value of your parents their house and how many siblings do you have.

You’re pretty fucked being American in that situation.

Sucks for immigrants. I’m born rich

Median net wealth per adult in Belgium is 250k euros. It’s because the housing stock is owned by families living in them. Their kids inherit that.

“Sucks for immigrants” isn’t even true. Social mobility is great here. Free education for them. But buying a house will indeed be very expensive for them. They have to pay for the current day economy. The economy that is attractive to immigrants.

Housing will always be expensive in a good economy.

Look at Singapore, it’s all owned by the country, and it’s expensive as hell.

Don’t think he drew for a living but drew for a fortune 🤣

Never been in USA, but working at McDonald’s here in Belgium while living at your parents, with 2000 euros net from a minimum wage job… Yeah after a year you can buy the house that I showed.

I’m sure you can work while living with your parents.

Having the 25k euros is only step one. Afterwards you need to build up capital for passive income when you are in Indonesia.

The cost of living is very low. the median net worth in Indonesia is 5000 euros. So with your starting capital, you’ll be ahead of the curve.

With your English, you have some niches you can do. Like working for English speaking companies. Local or from your computer.

most people that do this, go to Bali. But if you want cheaper areas, the place I showed is also do-able.

Bali is popular because more people there speak English. For Americans, the Philippines is popular because English is an official language.

My wife’s indonesian so if she wants to, we’ll go there.

likely not, because I prefer Belgium. But I’m also not complaining about the high housing prices here in Belgium. I know why they are high. It’s because people want to live here.

Same reason why housing is more expensive in Bali… People want to live there.

You can still buy a house by working at McDonald’s. All you need to do is leaving your country. Here’s a nice house in Tanjung Pinang, Bintan, Indonesia.

25000 euros.

https://www.rumah123.com/properti/tanjung-pinang/hos18668655/?price-unit-type=metersquare

They do that in the US. It hurts a lot of people leaving the US. They are the only relevant country in the world that does this.

Very bad. For example. Someone gets his income from Australia. He lives in Indonesia. Then the indonesian government will tax on the person’s worldwide income. The Australian government will tax the Australian income. The American government will tax all of the income.

Then there’s double taxation treaties to reduce the damage.

It’s nasty. USA in this instance has no right to claim that income. The person does not live in USA. The income does not come from USA.

Just an abuse of power

RSF was just an example to show that such a ranking exists. Removing conflict of interest and the ability to censor will be what’s needed in order to have real unguided public opinion.

That’s difficult to achieve.

The major thing to think about are things like CP, obviously that needs to be removed from existence.

So there’s positives to control, but nobody does anything for free.

Like here at Lemmy, I assume an instance creator of a popular instance will be able to be bought by companies or politicians.

Like Musk just bought twitter, lots of newspaper companies are owned by oligarchs. Other sources of news are owned by governments.

There’s always a conflict of interest.

It’s difficult to get away from.

With the market cap of their SOE’s, they have a broader impact on their economy. Sure, china is the most socialist relevant country in the world as of now.

Censorship can be ranked like anything else can.

https://rsf.org/en/index like they are trying to do.

Sent you a message after clicking on your username on the post I got banned on, just to see if it reaches you.

I know Belgium isn’t socialist, we’re rather social democratic.

There’s also market socialism which doesn’t require public ownership, just that the workers own the company. Something like Huawei.

But the end result. We have a median net wealth of 250k euros per adult. I’m quite happy about that.

We have some nationalised stuff. Our commuting train company, post company, Bank and insurance, bus transport, télécommunications company. Infrabel.

The government plays a major role in our lives but they are still liberal.

They just tax and transfer. 45% of the GDP is tax revenue. Belgians are doing just fine.

Owning key industries is useful, like the french with their nuclear reactors. But you as employee it’s better to have private options as well when it comes to employment.

Like in Cuba they have 1 employer. The government. Sure, the doctors get paid the most in the country, but still they flee to other Latin American countries so that they can fund their family in a luxurious housing unit in Havana.

This is because there’s more competition to buy the doctors their services in those other Spanish speaking countries in the Americas.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike socialist economic stuff, if it’s used properly.

I despise the censorship.

With the last ban, I messaged 3 people and none of them responded even though we were having quite some conversations in the thread. So I assume it doesn’t reach. Lemme try again.

@[email protected] so bruv, what were you saying? I got banned from that thread over there.

I like it quite a bit. Le chat mistral does a good job

We lack a translate button. Rednote and weibo have translate buttons. We need that.

There’s no central authority here. But if it doesn’t matter which instance you are on, then all the users on Lemmy are still just part of Lemmy.

On the graph I see other icons than Lemmy.

Are we able to see content from other social media? Or what is meant with that

Yes, we very very very strong 🥰 big Forza Bruxelles, Belgians mightiest of all Europe. Our history is countless won battles one after another. We ruled the whole world, you know?

What is not fair? I just said kind seeks kind, you don’t need people that aren’t your kind. It’s an easy way to figure out who isn’t your kind. The leak, is a great way to communicate.

As OP said, he found quite some more people that wanted to join.

When cities are built for cars, like liège. Then cars won’t have many issues there.

But liège is a shithole not worth visiting ☺️

It’s really fun watching cars struggle in Ghent. Just use a bike

Me and my buddy have the nuke thing going. Mutually assured destruction 😎