You're obviously not playing the right game.

Real-world software creation follows other rules.

I didn't say EU, but because you mentioned it...

Umm...

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/2...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/w...

That wouldn't be a good idea... You can't even argue that these were "a long time ago" or a one-off or anything like that.

People do it all the time here. The closest thing to anybody getting into any kind of trouble over that, which I can recall, was a woman who got arrested for saying "you suck" to Bill Clinton in his presence during the 90s, and the media rightfully made a pretty big deal out of it because that kind of thing is widely considered to be unconscionable here. But no charges stuck at all, unlike the cases I linked above where people not only got arrested and detained, but got fined pretty hefty sums for far less than that, one in particular just for a comment left on facebook.

Many states in Europe, including France, have official laws on their books that make it a crime to insult politicians. Though France is mild in comparison even to e.g. Sweden and Germany:

https://www.politico.eu/articl...

And that's just within the EU. There's also Turkey, Belarus, Russia, and probably many others I'm not even aware of.

Unless this gets independently reproduced, I am not believing one word of that claim.

Are you functionally illiterate?

You are hallucinating hard...

You know, the whole purpose of passing a constitutional amendment to have a federal income tax on individuals was to fund the military. That social contract you always go on about not only demands that you pay taxes, but also that you go to war when drafted by the military. It's amazing the way you get all authoritarian about some unwritten social contract that you yourself wouldn't even honor.

Not all of them spend that extravagantly. Your personal favorite, Elon Musk, doesn't even live in an expensive house, or drive exotic cars, or anything like that.

I get that you have this image of them swimming around in a money bank like Scrooge McDuck because this is just the way you picture the world, but in reality that kind of money only exists on a ledger somewhere, and there isn't enough physical or even electronic money in the world to pay for 90% of it. They just have a large ownership stake in something that has a large market price. But a market price and what somebody might actually pay for it are two very different things.

No, that's just you. You're obviously not even slightly aware of how many very rich people hate each other's guts, much like you hate mine for purely ideological reasons. Besides, all of the thought leaders who both founded and continue to define the very ideology you subscribe to were all these so called "nepo babies", yet you still look up to them anyways, but probably because you're not even aware of that.

Rather, you mentally compartmentalize people into classes, and you have an undying hate for anybody who you unilaterally decide isn't in yours. People like me tell you that this doesn't do you any favors, but you're an old boomer set in his ways. If you could truly empathize as you claim, you'd know these people you "other" deal with the same things you do. Some of these guys spend nearly every waking moment doing work, even when supposedly on vacation. Some of them are narcissists, some of them are psychopaths, but traits like these are not at all unique to any particular "class" that you like to box these guys into.

Equating the economy to the Holocaust being a really bad idea aside (I've long since learned to expect this kind of thing from you,) who are the people running this prison your mind is obviously trapped in?

Nobody is pretending anything of the sort. You've created mental barriers and barricades that don't actually exist. This is either because you're old and bitter about having never made it anywhere in life, or you're just a clinically depressed negative Nancy. More likely a combination of the two.

Either way, you've demonstrated numerous times now, and very conclusively so, that you have very little understanding of how the world works, which is likely due to having so very little experience with it. Every time I've watched you try to explain different professions, or even explained your understanding of history or even civics, you've always gotten it incredibly wrong. It's therefore no stretch to say that you yourself genuinely believe there's some kind of invisible hand controlling you and everybody else, but that too is borne of naivety.

As you've made clear, repeatedly: You'll never understand.

Nope did not happen.

I understand your knee jerk intuition about crypto currency. But very earnestly I suggest learning a bit about monetary policy. It's indispensable. And after that you may want to read about bretton woods and how banks in different countries actually can trade money to each other. The US treasury and its impact on monetary policy enables this. It's not just a methodology in the sense that bitcoin is a method for moving money. Monetary policy is how countries can perform the miracle of Keynesian economics to regenerate Growth in a downturn. That cannot ever be done ever without fiat currency and a central bank. Period. This was. Why for example Germany plunged in to pre-hitler ruin after world war 1. There was no way to climb out of turned down economy when you had no gold reserves (France took them). Germany only managed to recover when they pegged their mark to a kilo of wheat-- not a long term solution but a desperate move that mostly worked. But the economic malaise didn't end till Hitler started spending money into the economy. That was made possible by moving off the gold standard prior to Hitler.

Without monetary policy you are left with the austerity of Austrian economics which pretty much inverts the rational of monetary policy and loses all it's advantages.

If crypto ever rises to rival the dollar you can kiss the USA goodbye because it will mean the end of monetary policy and central banking. If you say good riddance, I think you may not understand how the world works

That happens more often than you think, you just rarely hear about it. And often if the company is struggling financially, the executives are hit the hardest, seeing their net worth drop by millions if not billions.

https://fortune.com/2025/07/17...

I still remember when I got laid off ten years ago, the CEO was tossed I think about 4 months later. Good guy, I met him in person a few times as he'd sometimes have lunch with us, but the company just wasn't doing well under his watch.

Anyways, we don't need your fascism to "fix" all if your perceived problems, regardless of how real (or not) they may be. As the collie fucker said earlier, they can unionize if they want, or if they're like me, they just won't work for a company like that to begin with.

Hint: Open Document formats are your friend and MS formats are the work of the devil.

You mean like you do with collies?

The overseas resource thing didn't really work out. They work well for situations where you need to quickly staff a new in-house business unit while you mature it, or when you have a short term project that's too big for your own internal resources to build from scratch, or some other acute need, but they don't work well long-term.

Eventually a lot of those guys got jobs at IT support scam companies.

Decent chance we'll see something similar with AI tools.