You checked where?

And no, you are still wrong, because the taxes were still there, just slightly indirect. The states paid their soldiers and other employees in the coins the state produced and the peasants had to sell food and services to these soldiers with these coins, which is in effect a form of taxation.

If you want to actually educate yourself about money I recommend you read “Debt, the first 5000 years” by David Graeber.

Even then the gold was used to mint coins with a nominal value set by the state and it had to be used to pay taxes.

The gold content/value of these coins also often did not correspond to the nominal value, especially over time.

Not everything is nonsense, just because you lack the knowledge to understand it 😅

Maybe if the German elites were willing to help, but they are busy stuffing their pockets and gloating about their investments into Rheinmetall and other war profiteers having multiplied recently. The problem goes much deeper than comparing conscripts between Finland and Germany.

This is the funniest statement I have read this month 😅

There is no such thing as money without the state, because it becomes money only because you have to pay taxes in it, otherwise it is at most a debt voucher or some form of speculative asset.

And aside from that, what do you think “sovereignty” refers to?

IANAL, but apparently only for transfers exceeding 1000€.

Given the memory optimization mentioned in the text, it looks a bit like there will be a 8GB ram version of the Steam Frame. Makes sense really, as it will make it significantly cheaper and for people mostly using it to stream from their main PC it shouldn’t matter much.

Fire protection basically. There doesn’t seem to be a lack of space and the battery containers seem to be placed in a way that they can be left to burn out individually without destroying the rest.

Did you actually read the original post? That is not at all what they said.

For example implying immigrants are the reason why social security budgets are tight or you can’t get an appointment with your GP is rediculous. The exact opposite is the case. Immigrants are mostly healthy adults that (after a while at least) pay more into social security then they will likely ever get out of it and definitly don’t clog up GP’s offices (on the contrary, they form a big part of the staff, nurses etc.). Old Germans on the other hand…

And the rest is similar BS that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Do you actually know what you are talking about? Because apparently not 🤦

Ugh, where do you even get these talking points? They are all complete bullshit 🤦 Like I don’t even know where to start because they all completely mix up facts and imply completely wrong causations.

Is this what Elon’s propaganda outlet tells Americans about Germany these days?

The issues mentioned apply to other messengers as well.

Other commercial messengers that target the general public, yes. But specialized communication apps for governments exist that for example have security clearance baked in at protocol level.

Commercial scuba diving is difficult to get into but it doesn’t take many years, and for sure nowhere near as long as becoming a doctor takes.

But I get the feeling you are just trying to argue for the sake of arguing and this has long moved past the original point.

Look, you don’t need to explain the details to me, as I am a scuba diver myself and have seriously considered getting into commercial diving 10-15 years ago. Hence me knowing some people that actually do this.

As I said, it is difficult to get into it and there is a lot of certificates you need to do, but at the end of the day it isn’t super difficult to do and the job itself is mainly relatively well paid because there is a certain risk involved and you spend a lot of time away from home often even cramped into small submersible habitats.

A doctor is a very bad example indeed, because most doctors have fixed jobs they can’t easily leave for longer time periods.

I thought this is farewell? Can’t have someone else get in the last comment? 🤡

You’re the one who thought that underwater workers were little better than common laborers.

Please don’t put words in my mouth which I never said nor implied.

Sadly this discussion was not very fruitful as you just ignored all the facts and misinterpreted a historical source to fit to your faulty analysis of what is actually happening. But I am not surprised as that is the usual state of things when you try to argue with facts and not vibes and make-believe with strangers on the internet 🤷

I didn’t say that it is an unskilled job. But once you have the necessary certifications (which don’t take years, although you can get additional certifications over the years while doing the job), it is a risky but not especially complex job. The payment is according: good for a job like that, but not crazy level money.

And anyways, the point was that “regular workers” jobs still exists that allow you to only work a few months a year, but they have become more rare and hard to get, partially because of bureaucratic red tape.

Its funny how you try to keep arguing when your point was entirely based on vibes and substantiated by nothing but make believe on your side (and a failure to understand basic economics and inflation).