I'm realizing that most people don't have the stomach or mental capacity to entertain ideas and decide whether they have any salt. People who I thought were particularly intelligent have seemingly stopped thinking about anything at all and refuse to even entertain ideas that don't fit in their crafted reality.
Do you suppose it's always an event that makes us question things around us? What was yours?
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cyclops1771 ago
I was working a job at a local supermarket chain. I was in management, meaning salary, not hourly, and was doing OK, but not great. Family owned company, run by a father-son combo. There were 600+ employees. Old man suffered stroke and died unexpectedly. There had been talk of an ESOP, of many things, but those died with the old man.
IRS comes in , and because the old man hadn't spent a few mil on lawyers, they eviscerated the company as if every cereal box, piece of deli meat, etc. was "personal property" and assigned the family a $7 million tax bill. The estate outside of the stores was worth less than $1 million.
Guess what? To "Tax the Rich", 600+ people lost their jobs when the stores closed/sold in order to pay the taxes.
The government isn't there to help you, it's there to control/ruin you.