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@phnt @Phobos this is 100% not bait and if i had to guess i'd think at least in central europe it's the majority opinion

@cjd @SpectralActivity in germany they switched from a funds based pension to one were they just make the young pay for it, i calculated that if they had put 10% of pension dues into a fund, by now all pay outs could be made just from the money that that fund makes. so yeah, save money, especially if you're a nation state with a pension system.

@feld @SlicerDicer @jeremiah modern models can absolutely read between the lines. these are not 1950s style beep boop robots who say "DOES NOT COMPUTE".

@phnt habibi, keep your passport up to date.

don't drink and post <-- advice for me, got snookered into a politics thread

@ElDeadKennedy @SpectralActivity @cjd @WandererUber show hands habibi

@cjd @SpectralActivity it's not at all the same. calling people who fly around half the world out of their own volition to take jobs where they are paid 10 times as much as they are at home 'slaves' is not a sensible thing.

@ElDeadKennedy @SpectralActivity @cjd @WandererUber chop your hands (posted cringe)

enttäuscht!

@WandererUber @SpectralActivity @cjd we had visitors from germany and we told them that if you steal something here, you're immediately deported. they thought this was an unthinkable evil.

@WandererUber @SpectralActivity @cjd in the western systems, yes. if there's no social net, no way to citizenship and the employer is responsible for the immigrant worker, there's no issue.

@cjd @SpectralActivity norway is unique though that they are half-socialist, got a sudden windfall and didn't spend it but invested it. so they are indeed doing something very good there.

@mono rapper names are so weird these days

@cjd @SpectralActivity the slave labor thing. i guess you just mean 'cheap labor', but immigrant labor isn't cheap in europe as they all immediately have rights to a state-sponsored apartment, food, spending money...

@cjd @SpectralActivity zero western countries do this, if they did they wouldn't have these issues.

@besserwisser it's basically "live here for five years", getting a citizenship for that is not common.

@m many countries don't allow any immigration at all. it's just very different, but "live like a normal person in the country for five years" is not hard.

@awl @prettygood yeah at least it often gets to 100F in summer. and they haven't invented AC over there yet.

@jeru @prettygood rude and uncalled for

@awl @prettygood gulf