Topic: I love how the UK is shocked by the backlasb.
Anonymous A started this discussion 1 month ago#135,576
Nobody voted in favor of open borders. The elites imposed it then dumped everyone in “estates.” Certain groups can carry knives and machetes, wear masks, Pakistanis can run groomer gangs for a decade with impunity, but you’ll go to jail or be fined for speaking up.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 2 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,440,481
@1,440,462 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade)
Disposable income by country. The UK is better off than Ireland.
Letting companies pretend they are based in your country doesn't actually help anyone. The employees live in other countries, the shareholders live in other countries.
Disposable income is what regular people actually feel.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade double-posted this 1 month ago, 5 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,440,483
The whole narrative about Ireland being a tax haven is kinda dumb, because it is a tax haven, but if you account for that, it’s still a relatively wealthy western European nation. Some people (British people) want Ireland to be poor because the Irish were stereotyped as poor for centuries, but they’re not poor anymore. They’re just not.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade triple-posted this 1 month ago, 5 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,440,485
The disposable income for Ireland and the UK are so close if you actually look at the rest of the data on that same Wikipedia page you got that from you’ll notice that Ireland and the UK swap places some years. For example in 2020, Ireland had a higher disposable income than the UK.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade quintuple-posted this 1 month ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,440,487
…tbh the more I look at it this data is kinda bs because they’re saying that people in these countries have this much disposable income in USD, but if a Japanese person converted their disposable income from Yen to USD, they wouldn’t have that much money compared to an Irish person converting Euros to USD. So the data isn’t actually representing reality.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade sextuple-posted this 1 month ago, 4 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,440,488
For 2021, they’re saying Ireland has a disposable income of $33 thousand USD and Japan has $31 thousand USD. That doesn’t make any sense because the average salary in Ireland is $60,000 USD and the average salary in Japan is $30,000 USD. That’s not possible.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade septuple-posted this 1 month ago, 9 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,440,489
Unless they’re just making the assumption that since Ireland has two tax brackets and you’re taxed 20% under 44,000 euros, and 40% after that, that since 60,000 USD is about 50,000 euros, that everybody in Ireland is being taxed at 40%, but about half the people should be making less than average so the average person should be getting taxed between 20% and 40%. And even if you tax $60,000 at 40%, that still leaves more than $30,000 left over, which is more than the Japanese salary before taxation. So I don’t see how they would have similar disposable income.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade nonuple-posted this 1 month ago, 8 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,440,491
I guess it also only tells half the story. You can say people in a country with lower taxes have less disposable income, but you can also say their governments don’t really do as much for them to improve the standards of their country and their society. So I think it’s a bad metric.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade double-posted this 1 month ago, 3 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,440,497
Anyway, I guess looking at the data, Ireland is either excellent or an average Western European nation, either way it’s better off than most of the world is.
Purchasing Power is not Purchasing Power Parity in GDP Per Capita calculations, and GDP Per Capita tells you nothing about the real experiences of living in a country, especially in Ireland.