Doctors are compensated this way because our tax system punishes wage earners, so this setup was done to allow them to make more money without fixing the overall issue of fairness.
These people really need to read up on Fritz Thyssen, Jack Ma or any one of the many Russian oligarchs who’ve been defenestrated, ventilated or irradiated under Putin.
A small amount of taxes in a functioning democracy when you’re already a billionaire is a lot cheaper than a hole in your chest under a thin-skinned fascist autocrat.
None of these folks think they’ll be a line in Niemoller’s poem. They’re horribly wrong.
It’s happening with vets, it’s happening with restaurants, with contractors, utilities, with anything and everything. Anything that can be bought, will be bought, and it will be squeezed relentlessly.
The rich will not be happy until they’ve wrung every cent of value out of us, and even then they won’t stop. They can’t stop. They don’t even understand how they could stop any more than a tumour might understand why it shouldn’t grow uncontrollably/.
A handful of years ago, I read an article which concluded that unrestrained capitalism will inevitably result in an entire industry sector being controlled by roughly three companies, working as a collusive oligopoly.
This group sees election fraud everywhere because they know—they know—they would do it if they had the opportunity, so they can’t see why everyone else wouldn’t.
There’s one notice, and it’s in the System Settings app. And it’s a little red dot beside the iCloud section. That’s not really the same league as what Microsoft is doing, or Even Google’s nag to use Chrome across all their Web properties.
You’re right about the first-party apps that you can’t remove, but it’s also not the same as, eg, Edge where those apps are used constantly and your preferences are reset on every update.
On my Mac I set my browser to Firefox in 2018. It’s never reverted to Safari, not once, where Windows really wants me to use Edge and goes so far as to not just reset it periodically, but also direct start menu searches and in-app web links to an ms-edge: url instead of using the http handler.