Citation very much needed.

Eh all of that stuff you'll pick up when you move out whether or not you physically go to college. Even learning how to work within a system is something you've been doing all your life.

The idea behind a spy agency is to catch em before they do wrong. Really all alliances and agreements in international politics are matters of convenience, not moral obligation.

You have been noted. Enjoy!

My balls it is. The only place I've ever seen it as such is on slashdot, and here twice.

If it makes me feel like I should be turning in my neighbours to earn extra food stamps or favours from the local Kommissar, maybe even the use of a People's Trabant to impress the other comrades, it's brutalism to me.

Whatever about hipsters I'm certainly no fan of modern glass, concrete and steel spiderweb homogeneity. I mean you could take a building off the streets of just about any modern city and transplant it into another without anyone raising an eyebrow. Even the iconic ones are rarely that interesting, just more elaborate variations on the theme. Go back in time a little and enormous cultural variations can be found in architectural design, producing some marvellous and unique urbanscapes.

Still I suppose, at least it's not brutalism. *shudders*

No they just need to refine the algorithms, I've been working on a predictive preferences model for the last while which may or may not come to anything, mostly for fun, but it's turning out quite nicely so far. Ratings aren't much use in this day and age and reviews are almost as suspect.

That might increase the cost of some goods or services beyond the benefit provided by the removal of income tax though. Let's say you're earning 300 euros a week, and being taxed 50 of those. You're fifty euros better off, but the overall doubling or tripling of sales taxes (whatever the different in income tax versus sales tax revenues are) has likely increased your expenditure far more than that. It disproportionately targets the poor while providing huge benefits to the likes of landowners who are renting out their properties, leading to a tremendous concentration of wealth, ie a landowning aristocracy. Plus, taxing consumption retards consumption, and the economy needs consumption.

Festinare nocet, nocet et cunctatio saepe, tempore quaeque suo qui facit, ille sapit.

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and death, mothers will immolate their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

~Henry George

Primum non nocere.

Under communism, you wait for bread. Under capitalism, bread waits for you.

So, nonsense.

In absolute terms, yes, it's seen generation after generation experience an improved quality of life. That computer you're typing on and the vast information networks you're able to access are in no uncertain terms the result of capitalism. That's not to say that laissez faire capitalism is a good thing, it's not. But let's not make false equivalencies here.

This. And the temptation to get rich quick on the part of random citizens would swiftly lead to a degradation of society to an unacceptable level. Pass our proposal, we'll put you on the board for life.