klaudius

In countries where people die from famine there are not a lot of rich people. High concentration of rich people is found in societies where people are not starving.

So you are right in saying that in a world of starvation rich people should be an aberration. That is to be expected.

EU used to produce its own energy, but environmentalists funded by Russia managed to reduce EU production and increase dependence on Russia. Hopefully those regulations can be reversed and EU can block Russia completely.

Same here. DDG is also superior if you are searching for controversial information which Google bans.

What is the name of that board?

"human resources"

I suggest you read the book "Virus Mania" for a more skeptical look on epidemics, masks and vaccines.

It's also ignoring other species.

There are cases where governments implemented protectionism and support for industry, but it failed. You have the case of computer industry in Brazil.

It's not as simple as saying that government support is the key since there are many cases where it didn't work.

    Big Tech should be locating large employment centers in strategic locations around the country. And by strategic I don’t mean where the talent, resources, or customers are located but rather where influential Congresspeople, Senators, and Governors are located.

I thought this was one of the problems of a Soviet style command economy. They would locate production not where it was more efficient and made economic sense, but where it was politically more beneficial.

If these companies start doing this they could lose to more efficient competition. Hope they aren't that stupid.

Now that they have market power and monopoly position in certain areas they lobby for regulation to make it difficult for startups to disrupt them. They used no sales tax and lower wages when they were starting up, but now want to prevent the same advantages for startups.

They are paying Australia's GST. The tax you are referring to is income tax. They are exporting a product to another country and paying income tax in the country where they are producing the product.

Companies have to pay value added tax in the country they are selling their goods and services in, but their income tax is paid in the country where they are based.

I was at one of their scam seminars. There was some sociopath lying for an hour straight and trying to get people to purchase some package for mining Onecoin. It was ridiculous. I was invited by a (former) friend who tried to recruit me and make some money exploiting me.

There are already studies on effects of UBI:

  https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2016/11/30/long-term-effects-of-short-term-free-cash-guaranteed-minimum-income-experiments/