Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
As my feed is populated by a lot of German threads it is worth to note that moderate depends a lot on the country you are from. Bernie Sanders would probably be considered part of the moderate left in most of Europe while he is considered to be far left in the USA.
In kaum einem anderen Land werden Vermögen so niedrig und Arbeit gleichzeitig so stark besteuert wie in Deutschland. Trotzdem sprechen sich die meisten Bürgerinnen und Bürger gegen eine Vermögenssteuer aus. Warum, erklärt Patrick Sachweh, Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Bremen, der sich auf den Wandel von...
Die reichsten 300 Menschen der Schweiz besitzen zusammen 820’975’000’000 Franken.
Der Median vom Vermögen in der Schweiz ist 186’287 Franken.
Man könnte also die reichsten 300 Menschen der Schweiz in ein Flugzeug setzen und diese Leute würden gleich viel besitzen, wie etwa 4,4 Millionen Personen mit dem Medianvermögen. Das wäre etwa die halbe Schweiz...
Edit: Nur mit diesem Vermögen könnte man die Bundesausgaben der Schweiz für etwa 10 Jahre decken.
Edit2: Wenn ich alles richtig gerechnet habe, könnte man mit dem Geld etwa 270 gWp an Solarzellen aufstellen (bei einem Preis von 3000 Franken pro kWp). Damit wäre die Energieversorgung der Schweiz vermutlich weit mehr als nur gesichert.
Kürzlich gab es wieder einmal eine Studie, dass man mit Arbeit nicht reich wird, sondern Kapital zu noch mehr Kapital führt.
Entsprechend sind das vermutlich nicht Leute, die besonders anspruchsvolle Jobs ausführen, sondern sich an der Arbeit anderer bereichern.
Steigende Preise für Konsumenten bei kaum steigenden Kosten für Unternehmen zum Beispiel.
Die Damen und Herren dürften aus meiner Sicht also noch deutlich mehr Einkommenssteuern bezahlen.
Besonders wenn man bedenkt, dass 1000 € für jemandem mit Mindestlohn riesige positive Auswirkungen haben, für jemanden, der Millionen verdient aber kaum spürbar ist.
It is. I was just using it because I thought I would support Reddit with it. But the recent changes showed what you get for that. Now I'm not using Reddit anymore.
First they come for the 3rd party Apps, then Old Reddit, then NSFW content and so on. The change just opened the box of Pandorra and showed how little spez cares about the community.
I did use the official shitty App and left because it is quite obvious that it will only get worse.
According to Sony, about 1 million people exclusively play Call of Duty on their PlayStation. If you could choose only one game (franchise) to play on your computer or console, which one would it be?
Crusader Kings 3: It will get updates for years probably, has a very active modding community and you can play in vastly different scenarios. Ranging from historical to Elder Kings, Lord of the Rings and much more.
But it would at some point get bland anyways. I wold probably start to hate it at some point.
I'm all for Switzerland sending arms or at least allowing exports of sold weapons. The problem is that Switzerland's biggest party is all like "But our Neutrality!" Funny enough they were against the law banning exports of weapons to conflict zones a few years ago. But I guess Russia pays well...
Bisher nutze ich Focus Online als Android-App, weil es damals halbwegs nahe an dem Konzept von Shortnews gekommen ist. Die Qualität ist allerdings mittlerweile unter dem, was ich als erträglich erachte....
Sehr gut! Hoffentlich wird das auch ordentlich vermarktet. Stromproduktion auf Privatdächern sollte insbesondere für ländliche Regionen (viele Eindamilienhäuser) positive Auswirkungen haben. Meistens sind es aber die Leute dort, die die Grünen skeptisch sehen.
You can store electricity pretty well either with Pumped-storage hydroelectric plants or with batteries (that recently got way cheaper and more efficient. If you start adding batteries to buildings with solar panels, the buildings can provide electricity for themselves for longer periods of times which will lower energy costs for households.
If you build more Nuclear Power Plants, it is big corporations that profit and not the regular people. I prefer to help regular people.
That's true for batteries that have to be lightweight. There are salt water batteries that do not require any (or a lot) rare earth materials. They are about twice as heavy if I remember correctly, but for a house that doesn't matter a lot. And the good thing is that the more batteries are used in houses, the better and more efficient they get.
The biggest problem with Nuclear Power Plants is their price and the fact that they are centralized. While they might produce a good amount of baseline electricity, their energy is more expensive than solar and wind.
Obviously solar and wind also have disadvantages like fluctuating production but that could be solved by building battery storage. In another comment line I commented about Aqueous Hybrid Ion Batteries that could be used that way, they are heaavier than other battery types but environmentally friendly and could therefore easily be used in buildings.
The main advantage of solar combined with batteries is that it will help regular people instead of a huge company. A decentralized energy production would also help in wars or with natural catastrophies.
Solar panels are living quite long lifes. The people installing those panels are, at least in my country, mostly in small companies. You are right anout the production though but there will probably grow more and more manufacturer's as they don't need Billions like the Energy Companies that build Nuclear Power Plants.
That is definitely not true for Sweden nor for most countries in Europe. Especially as coal plants are a massive waste of money.
We are at a point were renewables get built more and more.
Even Germany wouldn't have had to build Coal and Gas Plants, but the CDU that was in power for about 20 years was fighting against renewables all the time (eg basically banning wind turbines in Bavaria).
Hopefully lab grown meat will become a thing soon. Then we could reduce traditional meat production and therefore use the farmland more efficiently for plants and biodiversity. I would love for all those subsidies to go into biodiversity instead of meat production in the future.
OC Fediverse won't replace Reddit as long as Lemmy is the main platform being promoted
Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
Vermögenssteuer: "Viele finden die Konzentration von Vermögen legitim" (archive.is) German
In kaum einem anderen Land werden Vermögen so niedrig und Arbeit gleichzeitig so stark besteuert wie in Deutschland. Trotzdem sprechen sich die meisten Bürgerinnen und Bürger gegen eine Vermögenssteuer aus. Warum, erklärt Patrick Sachweh, Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Bremen, der sich auf den Wandel von...
6365 Millionäre zahlen zehn Prozent der Einkommensteuer (www.sueddeutsche.de) German
Ordinary redditors are feeling the pain as well. (teddit.adminforge.de)
The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,...
If you could only play one game exclusively, which one would it be? (www.theverge.com)
According to Sony, about 1 million people exclusively play Call of Duty on their PlayStation. If you could choose only one game (franchise) to play on your computer or console, which one would it be?
Switzerland joins EU in expanding sanctions against Russia (kyivindependent.com)
Switzerland is expanding its sanctions against Russia in line with the EU’s 11th package of sanctions, the Swiss government announced on June 28....
Global Wealth Report - Reiche werden reicher: Lohnt sich Arbeiten überhaupt noch? (www.srf.ch) German
Richi Lüt werded richer und Arbet wird immer weniger rentabel....
Mindestlohn: Da hätten sie auch gleich abrunden können (www.zeit.de) German
https://archive.ph/GfaZB
Welche Nachrichtenportale nutzt ihr für den täglichen Überblick? German
Bisher nutze ich Focus Online als Android-App, weil es damals halbwegs nahe an dem Konzept von Shortnews gekommen ist. Die Qualität ist allerdings mittlerweile unter dem, was ich als erträglich erachte....
Losses of the Russian military to 26.6.2023 (lemmy.world)
ALT-Text: The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 25.06.23 were approximately:...
Habeck will private Solarstromerzeugung offenbar stärker fördern (www.faz.net) German
Sweden adopts new fossil-free target, making way for nuclear (www.power-technology.com)
What should happen to swiss farmland in the future? (www.srf.ch)
Should it stay the same or deliver more for meat production? Or should it have more space for biodiversity and grain?