Maybe you missed the part where he defines takers. Here's the part :
>Then there are people who come along with a sword, or a gun, or taxes, or crony capitalism, or Communism, or what have you. There’s all these different methods to steal.
I know its frowned upon to ask why you are being downvoted, but honestly I would like some feedback on why the comment is being downvoted.
The commenter I was replying to, it seemed to me had missed the part and so was forming an opinion on what they think a "taker" is. In the article, you will find that he defines takers the very next paragraph after he uses the word takers. In the Joe Rogan podcast, infact he elaborates on this.
There is no beauty in it, you need to understand power play and how it manifests in real life.
The official is taking bribe, because you have a need for some thing to be done and he wields power over you. If you do such nonsense, your work simply won't be done, and the official will simply create additional hurdles.
Yes, the Zero Rupee Note does not achieve anything at all. For e.g. if a traffic cop stops you, the first thing he does is that he takes your driver license. Good luck getting it back with your fancy Zero Rupee note.
Yeah, I’m aware. I wouldn’t really care if the watch itself died, but leaking oil would be a bit annoying and making things that should fall apart last longer is often a fun challenge.
The o-ring is pretty flimsy (you can see it in a few pictures), but some have done this mod and have worn their F-91Ws without any leakage for 5+ years, so I expect it to be "good enough."
I'm well aware of that - Hindu here :), by birth anyway, and have read a lot of books about Hindu philosophies (note the double plural).
>and varies by region,
Not quite correct, only partially. I'm not an expert on the intricacies of it, but it is somewhat generally known to people that the are many branches / sects / whatever you want to call them, and they vary (or varied, originally, at least), by the main god / founding guru / philosophy for that sect or branch, not by region (although that may have even coincided in some cases, others were/are nationwide). Over time that variation may have morphed into being somewhat along regional lines, but even now, it is not fully so. You can find plenty of people of different branches of Hinduism, in the same town or city (even somewhat in villages, is my guess, though less so there). Just look at the print or online matrimonial ads, for example, of any leading Indian newspaper, and see how many ads there are for prospective brides and grooms from different Hindu sects, but from the same state or even city.
>that any blanket statement you make about it has a very high chance of being incorrect!
See above points. And anyway it was not meant as a blanket statement. We are talking about human affairs here, not algorithms, so a certain degree of looseness is generally acceptable and understood. In this context, we don't need to add (math) existential or universal quantifiers (like "there exists ..." or "for all ...") to every statement we make.
Which seems a pretty blanket statement to me. There are other beliefs which many hindus believe are a core part of Hinduism for e.g. vegetarianism. I am not trying to create a strawman here. You will be surprised, how many regions (yes regions, not branches / sects as you put) have fish/meat as a part of their tradition.
Seems like you missed my last paragraph about human affairs vs. algorithms above.
>There are other beliefs which many hindus believe are a core part of Hinduism for e.g. vegetarianism.
Not at all likely - that Hindus believe that. Foreigners, may be. Hindus all know that there are plenty of vegetarians as well as non-vegetarians among Hindus. In fact meat-eating (including sacrifices of meat) is even mentioned in ancient scriptures like the Vedas. And it has been a practice from then down to modern times.
>You will be surprised, how many regions (yes regions, not branches / sects as you put) have fish/meat as a part of their tradition.
No, I wouldn't be surprised at all. Wrong assumption on your part. I know it very well. I am from and live in India. It's more like the other way around, and it is not even by region, in this case. It is only some percentage who are vegetarian on the grounds of religion. Plenty of Hindus eat meat/fish, in many states of India.
You may not be trying to create a strawman, but you are making unwarranted assumptions.
This form of reasoning is very common but very confused IMO. Logically thinking, everyone would want to keep more money. I don't know why a rational thinking entity would try to make decisions that would increase costs. Everyone optimizes. Optimization is the basis of any free economy.
I am not sure if you have handled this or even if it is possible to handle the fact that the "basic" component of the salary is not a fixed percentage of the CTC. So two people with same CTC can have different "basic". This basic component also determines the max exemptions you can claim for e.g. under HRA. Also, employers themselves try to structure the basic and the HRA components to reduce the tax burden of their employees by modifying the basic. Exemptions under HRA have to be declared by the employer.
Sorry, dont want to sound too negative, but the tax calculator is so simple it doesn't handle even the most basic stuff. I am guessing you have never paid tax at the income tax website. I would suggest you to go the income tax website and see the inputs that the calculator takes.
I did look at that and many other tax calculators, and some are so complex that people don't know what to put in. It's intimidating.
I built this for my needs. If you want it to handle HRA, or LTA, or income 1 crore and above, etc, that's an entirely reasonable point of view, and I'd welcome a pull request if you have the time.
But am I correct in my assumption that you have never paid taxes yet? :) Any one who has ever been on a payroll will know that the basic component is dynamic. Also I don't know anyone who does not claim any exemptions!
Ha ha, no I've paid a variety of taxes: income, professional, capital gains... I've been an employee and now a startup founder. I also help others with taxes.
The script does have a field for EMPLOYEE_TAX_DEDUCTION. It defaults to 1.6 lac, assuming 1.5 lac for 80C and 10K for the rest (like medical insurance under 80D or whatever). But you can change it to whatever number you want to include other exemptions like HRA and LTA.
I think some things like PF and HRA are calculated based on basic income, but I was able to approximate the calculation without bringing basic income into account. Salary for the purpose of PF is limited to 15K anyway.
Not sure if it's present in OS X, but I know at least iOS has impedance memory, so it'll recognize specific headphones and set the volume to what it was last at when they were plugged in. It's a really nice feature.
I have not tried that, though I will experiment. It seems to be an issue with the latest OSX version (Mojave), as I cannot recall it happening on the last OSX major version (High Sierra?). I do not have new headphones across this version switch.
As a workaround, I have to go to the audio app and explicitly pause, which I frequently forget to do if the audio is muted. My desk mates have heard way more samples of my library than they'd like, I'm sure.
