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So you're saying every company should be owned by a single person? If two people want to start a company, it should only belong to one person? That doesnt sound right to me...
Cars. They are everywhere and are like cigarettes. Addictive, bad for our environment and bad for ourselves.
And we even try to keep using them as long as possible by switching to an electric version, just like cigarettes. "But it's electric, it can't be that bad!"
Humanity is not running to its doom, it's taking a car.
Name one car-addicted person. Like, someone who has withdrawal symptoms.
As a person that hates cars, I still have to disagree. For transportation of goods (like building materials) and in remote areas, they are sometimes the only efficient form of transport.
Obviously: fuck cars.
Imperfect political and economic systems like our current version of capitalism and democracy. (Both could be better, or even replaced by something different which is better.)
Violence.
Judging without critical and unbiased thinking.
Thats impossoble because a perfect systen depends on one's morals which differ from person to person. Whats a perfect system to you may be a bad system to me.
A perfect system would be able to deal with this. Of course, that's a purely ideological goal which probably wouldn't be reached in practise. But I think we could gain a lot on the road there.
For-profit medical care.
A lot of these are things that we can improve
Here's one we can't: giraffes π¦
an old meme:
Man I think the unbelievable part stays in the fact that that horse fucking flyies ...
Pegasus != Unicorn
Food banks
Inflation
I like my balloons flat too.
Tax exemption for religious organisations.
Could be worse, I guess. I live in a "secular" democracy that essentially collects members fees for the Catholic and Lutheran churches (and only those two!) via the federal income tax.
In Germany, state-recognized churches collect taxes from their members in order to finance their activities as well as wages. Everyone who is a member of an officially recognized religious group automatically gets a percentage of their monthly wage taken from their paycheck. Usually, this amounts to around 9% of income tax β with the exception of Bavaria and Baden-WΓΌrttemberg, where the church tax amounts to 8%.
For native Germans, church tax is often automatically collected. Many Germans are baptized at a young age and thereby become members of a particular church, which means they pay taxes to that church when they begin to earn income as an adult.
If youβre a foreigner moving to Germany, you can declare your affiliation to a church when you register at your local citizenβs office.
9%? That's absurd. Is there a way to remove yourself from this?
Just want to clarify: It is 9% of the income tax, not 9% of the income. Still too high, but not as absurd as some people may think after reading this incorrectly. I know some people who thought that it is 9% of the income although they were paying church tax for years...
Is there a way to remove yourself from this?
Sure: There is a third box "no confession" next to "Catholic" and "Protestant" on the form. You can check that and those 9% remain with the state instead.
German secularism has a few more peculiarities. Many charitable organizations e.g. running hospitals or institutions caring for the homeless, elderly, and disabled are in fact religious (Diakonie, Johanniter, Caritas, Stadtmission, ...). This has some unfortunate effects: They often hire people of Christian faith only, meaning atheists or adherents of other religions are mostly excluded at these organizations. There have also been cases of a doctor at a Christian-run hospital denying the abortion because of their faith -- despite abortion being legal here. However, much of the money these organizations receive is in fact public money, supposedly spent on serving the public. Another wrinkle is that Religious Law is used when it comes to e.g. prosecuting rape cases involving priests etc. Somehow, this separate system of law that doesn't really seem to work particularly well is accepted by the German state.
Fake chocolate flavors.
I have never heard of that. Is this something like Mockolate in that one Friends episode?
Billionaires
The interstate highway we have on Oahu. It doesnβt even extend to other counties.
I think we should build a huge highway bridge to Hawaii