Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big

Post by ExoticPearTree » Sat, Aug 09, 2025, 5:50 PM UTC

exe34 wrote: post #536

ExoticPearTree wrote: post #531

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Wow. Can't wait for you to win the lottery and pay the government 80% of what you won in taxes and be happy about it. Do you even know anyone poor? As in living off on less than $2-$5 a day? Or whatever the definition of poor is in your country? And if so, can you share here with the group why they're poor and continue being poor?

A quarter of children under 4 in the UK face hunger. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xeyx7x75eo And corporate profits have never been higher. Number of billionaires has never been higher.

Post by ExoticPearTree » Sat, Aug 09, 2025, 6:58 PM UTC

exe34 wrote: post #542

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> That's only true in rich people fantasies. I am not rich my any means. In today's definition of classes I guess I'm somewhere middle class with a chance of making it to upper middle class by the time I reach retirement age. But, I grew up very poor (shoes with holes in them going to school type of poor) and that motivated me to do more, learn more and hopefully achieve more than my predecessors. And for this reason…

Let me guess, you did it all by yourself - you worked nights to pay for your school when you were seven. You grew your own wheat and baked your own bread.

Post by exe34 » Sat, Aug 09, 2025, 9:30 PM UTC

ExoticPearTree wrote: post #543

exe34 wrote: post #542

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Let me guess, you did it all by yourself - you worked nights to pay for your school when you were seven. You grew your own wheat and baked your own bread.

I still grow my own wheat and bake my own bread. Farm my own vegetables, raise chicken... the works. No, I took every opportunity to learn new skills and advance in life. You can mock me all you want, it is not going to change my opinion that you be poor if you chose to be poor.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 09, 2025, 10:09 PM UTC

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> Nobody’s that jejune. Edit out swipes like this from comments on HN please, no matter what you're referring to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don't think there's a way for me to edit old posts, but I swear and/or affirm I will not feed the trolls moving forward.

Post by gnabgib » Sat, Aug 09, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

tomhow wrote: post #548

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I don't think there's a way for me to edit old posts, but I swear and/or affirm I will not feed the trolls moving forward.

I think this is also a swipe isn't it?