There’s probably 2-3 Paris in the US.

Same thing happens with Latin America and Spain. There’s maybe an Almería in America.

The comment you replied to originally was talking about why billionaires should support a democratic society.

If the society is not democratic, it would be authoritarian. Therefore what I explained could happen.

A billionaire cannot exist in 2 countries at the same time. It doesn’t matter if his company is multinational, he isn’t.

If you jail that billionaire, which is not hard as a state if said billionaire resides in your country, you can “convince” him to give even assets in foreign countries.

That’s why they removed his passport.

Most legislation is not done through petitions like these.

The EU is composed of tens of countries with very different cultures. And plenty of parties.

In the US there are only 2 parties. And they mostly vote in favour of whatever their party wants.

Having multiple parties means that it is very rare for a single party to have 50% of the vote. Which means they have to make agreements constantly. Which is very time consuming.

Let’s say you have parties ABCDEF. Parties A and B are big, the other small.

Party A wants to make a law. It either needs help of B, or 2 of the small parties. Parties BC are immediately opposed. So it has to convince D, E or F. D will only support it if they can pass another bill. That other bill is a deal breaker for E and F.

Now A’s only option are E and F. So if they want to have that bill passed, they’ll have to give E and F whatever they want. Which probably A doesn’t want. So even though A is a big party, it is impossible for them to pass that bill.

Yeah. It is clearly possible. I don’t know why I read it as 60th percentile instead of 60% of median

After reading my comment. You are right, it is not impossible.

However, it still is not a good indicator for minimum wage.

IMO, minimum wage should be based on expenses. That is, it should cover what you need to live a decent life.

That definition is based on other’s income. Imagine you live in a country where housing is 1€/month and food is 0.10€/month. The rest of the costs scale accordingly. Yet it is an incredibly rich country and the median income is 10000€/year. Would you say that a yearly wage of 120€/year is risk-of-poverty? It’s 0.001% of the median income, yet it can provide for 10 years of housing in 1 year of work.

Great. We used the same definition, that’s good.

Now, can you explain to me what minimum wage do you think would make it so minimum wage is safe from poverty according to that definition?

What is the definition of safe from poverty?

What I found was this:

The at-risk-of-poverty rate is the share of people with an equivalised disposable income (after social transfer) below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold, which is set at 60 % of the national median equivalised disposable income after social transfers.

From https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Glossary%3AAt-risk-of-poverty_rate

By that definition, it is not possible to have a minimum wage “safe from poverty”. Since the minimum will always be below the median.

“full attendance”

The fact that some 300 people with the best salaries and most prestigious jobs in the country can’t be presumed to all attend their job is completely incredible to me. Especially on occasions of such importance such as a presidential impeachment.

The planet does not care about taxes either.

The reason per person footprint is important because we can’t just turn off all pollution. We have to gradually reduce it.

You can’t just say to your country “by the way, we just banned fossil fuels”, that will just result in you dead and a pro-pollution guy being in charge of the country next day.

The way to reduce pollution is to get more output from the same input. That is, efficiency.

Private jets are incredibly inefficient and are used by an extremely low percentage of the population. There’s no reason to keep that 1.8% just to satisfy 0.0001% of the population.

So now not being progressive is far right. Also there’s 2 countries in the EU. Got it.

Ah yes. Anything to the right of communism is far right.

It is not only an issue due to forever growth. Birthrates are so low in some places (like Japan), that the new generations will just be crushed by the (economic) burden of the older ones.

Older people don’t contribute much to the economy, but they spend a lot. It’s just how it is. Older people are usually less healthy, and less healthy people eventually consume more resources than they can provide. This burden means that the younger generations will demand change to the government, and that will make retirement either worse or harder to achieve. Which will lead to the old days of working until you drop dead. Or distopian-like situations where old people willingly die to not be a burden, or even worse, they are killed by the government.

And as you say, immigration just fixes the short-term effects. That future is inevitable with birthrates so low. Inmigrants usually adopt to the birthrate of the country very fast.

Anti British empire people:

The Brits are horrible! Look how they divided the world in countries with straight line borders without care about the local population’s culture!

Also anti British empire people:

The Brits are horrible! They made 2 separated countries due to their culture being different!

You can’t blame the British on this. Countries are supposed to be groups of people that are geographically connected and have similar cultures. Religion is a big part of culture.

Of course leaving I think leaving Kashmir to decide their own fate was a mistake. In retrospect, they probably should have divided them in 2 and give part to Pakistan and part to india. Or alternatively force them to become a separate state with a constitution that doesn’t rule out the idea of separating in 2, and each part could decide independence or join their culturally-similar country.

That’s not what happened in the entirety of Spain. I’m from one of the least affected areas (basque country) where the blackout only lasted ~2h. My cellphone had 4g connection the entire time.