ObserverNeutral

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by ObserverNeutral 5y ago
> Will Crypto be regulated I don't think it would solve anything, you'd remove the effect, not the cause. What draws people to crypto is deflation. People love deflation, they gravitate towards crypto because deflation is hard
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by ObserverNeutral 5y ago
It's all obvious in retrospect... isn't it? Just like those HBS people who shoot down Bezos when he spoke about Amazon. Thing is: common sense is right most of the times. Most of the times BTC fad just dies out, most of the times
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by ObserverNeutral 5y ago
> Fee for speculation Well first of all everything is speculation, it goes both ways, you mentioned BP, well people use barrels of oil today because they think it won't be worth more tomorrow Coinbase takes a fee for every transacti
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by ObserverNeutral 5y ago
that's what I meant. Before taxes social hatred would brew and brew until finlly it was unleashed violently
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by ObserverNeutral 5y ago
It's either done with taxes using money as a unit of account or let the hatred build up and let the chips fall where it may.
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by ObserverNeutral 5y ago
taxes aren't just a way to raise money for federal and local governments, they are also an elegant way which society has to allocate social hatred. You need a corporate tax because people hate corporations, a wealth tax is being discus
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by ObserverNeutral 5y ago
how would this be an improvement, you just change the set of people who evade taxes. From people who pay tax experts millions to study really clever ways of doing transfer pricing and income shifting towards people who study the odds of aud
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by ObserverNeutral 5y ago
To people saying this will end the race to the bottom. It will never end, when every rate is equal then tax rate would magically stop being important and the important number will be: 1) Odds of tax audits 2) Countries with statutes of limi
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Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21%(axios.com)
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by ObserverNeutral 5y ago
Sure, but at the same time it's important to stress that while the judge is still out on Tesla , the wealth of mr. Musk is pretty real, and I mean both the mega salary which has parameters optimized for Musk to achieve as well as the p