/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>13482437
It's noteworthy that it was until extremely recently most European countries had lower corporate taxes than the U.S. did and simply had close to or relatively higher taxes on normal earners

https://taxfoundation.org/corporate-income-tax-rates-around-world-2014/

It speaks volumes that the countries that have some of the lowest birthrates, have some of the healthiest populations (owing exclusively to personal choices like diet and exercise culture) get free drugs largely developed by American firms (60% of all novel medications who-knows how many treatments annually), have unsustainably small militaries entirely relying on U.S. global hegemony, still must be saddled with rapacious taxes to pay for the services they barely make use of. You're attributing to government which could easily be explained by the conscientious behavior of the common people.

>>13482579
(Improved was actually my first choice of words but I ran over the character limit)

I watched Starship Troopers, I can accept that force is as legitimate an authority as any-if less than completely ethical-but I also think thanks to modern technology we could have a more voluntaristic system that could result in more transparency and could maximize utility. Public school is an easy one, but there's a lot that could be done to make sure that people are paying more for what they personally use and less for what they're not. Through the vishnu in the blockchain all things could be possible sir.

>>13482809
>If I were to run around the streets and steal $120 from 250,000 people that would be sort of a big deal and enough to put me in jail many times over.

Maybe if you tell the cops that you gave your unfortunate victims $29,870 and, along with a small committee of a handful of others, personally spearheaded the initiatives and calculated risks that made this money possible to be earned in the first place the government's men-at-arms would let you off with a warning

What are some ways we can profit from Clown World now that it has been confirmed with recent events?