Justin

You’re mixing two different kinds of inequality here, The top graph is wealth (aka savings), while the bottom one is income. Wealth is the much harder one to crack, and Sweden actually has much higher wealth inequality than all of the other countries being compared.

It’s worth noting that one of the main reasons that Sweden has relatively equal income before tax is because of the way the tax system works. Because social security contributions cap out at ~$70k/year, similar to the US, but there is no similar cut off for social security payroll taxes, employers generally pay their employees in dividends and private pensions instead of income, above that $70k level. Taxes are generally flat in Sweden, though.

- a swede

is the modern one right? Why are there two bars per quintile? Isn’t the top 10% above 90% of the populations wealth?

Who is Sandy Loam?

Quality of life and purchasing power matters a lot for deciding where to live, it’s why a lot of people have moved to cities historically.

I do think that a lot of critics of European wages don’t really know all the factors that play into that, though. It’s not all about salary.

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Yeah, though to be fair, I think you pay a lot less taxes on those $14/hr in Sweden than you would in the us (like 18% effective tax rate, including payroll), and you get health insurance, pension, and vacation.

The far-right is surging in countries like Germany and Sweden too, where they use PR, not FPTP.

I was making minimum wage as a runner after high school here in Stockholm. Minimum wage in the restaurant industry in Sweden is currently $14/hour.

What server these days is taking home $3500/month? (i.e. $21+/hour)

Lucky for me Tencent Riot games already banned all Linux users like me months ago.

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Yeah, she definitely has some thought-provoking explanations on how cities work.

I would say gentrifying 1 building is ok, and is something you can do every 5 years or so to help boost the economy and modernize the building stock. But it becomes a problem when an entire block or an entire neighborhood becomes gentrified all at once. It’ll lead to a slum in the long run.

Good neighborhoods should have a mix of older and newer buildings.

From Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities

4x64gb udimms would cost over $1000.

Old Epyc boards are super cheap on eBay. 8 channels of ddr4 and 80-100 lanes of pcie for nvme on an ATX mobo. You pay for the idle power consumption, but it’s pretty cheap overall.

I doubt this person actually had a computer than could run the 405b model. You need over 200gb of ram, let alone having enough vram to run it with gpu acceleration.

Gotta love the 6 lane highway bulldozed through the middle of a medieval city, and the TWO ring roads. And the conservatives have cancelled the last two rail projects for Stockholm.

Yeah, it recently opened like a year or two ago in Täby. I’ve never been to dollar store, but Ica is basically just a normal supermarket, so I can see how Costco distinguishes itself in that market.

Täby isn’t really a nice place to visit if you don’t have a car, though. The bike paths are shit, and I’ve had dickheads in American trucks rev their engines at me when I bike through there. I’d be better of going to Martin och Servera than Costco if I wanted to buy in bulk.

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