Your argument is wrong for obvious reasons. Of course you have to invest loads of resources into a single cow before you can eat it ... I mean that's not hard to grasp.
Furthermore it is completely pointless to compare economics of ancient cultures with a modern industrialized civilization.
... we are all just single, elementary experiments within a gigantic, global monte carlo simulation :)
All you can hope for is that your random configuration plays well - b/c you will never know for sure - it's the supervising virtual and hypthetical power evaluating your performance after termination as a statistic.
Then again - don't strive for material satisfaction and you will be a billionaire immediately - and your currency is happiness.
> “Oh my God, can you grab him?” I shouted at the woman at the door, as my 3-month-old puppy darted out into the cold and I tried to stop my 6-year-old twins from following suit. She obliged, and I was able to get a proper look at her. It was in the 30s outside, unseasonably cold for Florida, and the young woman holding my squiggling puppy was wearing nothing but a light spring sweater, shivering and looking miserable. I invited her in. ... "
I fell asleep by the end of that paragraph - gimme the fac's, dude ...
The amount of taxes being collected throughout the year are by design higher than what you actually owe to the government. That's the same in most countries.
Of course you can get your overpaid taxes back by means of the tax return - but a lot of people don't have the money or time or knowledge to do that.
The overpaid money is to the government if requested back, an interest-free loan - if not requested back, a gift.
If the government would now tell the IRS to fill out the form for you - then there would be significantly less income - due to more accurate taxation.
Well, with regards to what "Westeners" nowadays consider civilized - Singapore is lagging behind SF I'd care to argue. Just consider gay rights and expressing affection in public - so in that respect there is rather an anti-correlation between cleanliness of public facilities and cultural development.
Of course, but intelligent people react to new qualities - and this case is super-weird and gets even more tasteless when you see the cops on the clip and how the act. It just doesn't make sense.
It's absolutely ridiculous. And I don't get why this isn't upvoted more. There have been several much less serious cases been recently on the front page.
I guess HN voting is simply tilted all the way. (Note to myself: Need more fake accounts)
Because the superficial rule set of your surrounding social group dictates so?
If you don't harm other people and every now and then make someone happy or smile - then you did not, do not and will not fail!
Guys like Donald Trump are failures [1] - you most likely are not.
Do something to reshift perspectives if you're stuck in one that makes you feel so bad about your life that you even associate this with the subject at hand. Travelling, reading, moving, meditating, ...
So? What country are you referring to? In Germany f.x. they do carry pepper spray and tasers and a gun and in most other countries as well. What's your point?
Furthermore it is completely pointless to compare economics of ancient cultures with a modern industrialized civilization.