DavidDoesLemmy
@DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia was once the gold standard for gun safety. Experts say it’s losing control 9 hours ago:
How do the animals even hold the guns, let alone aim and fire them? Why do animals need guns at all?
- Comment on Retirees ‘deserve’ super tax breaks, treasurer says, as government considers how to give younger Australians ‘fair go’ 2 days ago:
For the most part, super is insurance for the government. Force people to save some of their earnings for retirement so they don’t need government support in retirement. It’s more politically tenable than raising tax rates 10% and saying that money will fund retirees.
They should have always had limits on the tax concessions though.
- Comment on Many primary school kids will never have a male teacher, and experts say that's a problem 3 days ago:
It depends what the quota is. It could be a minimum percent. It could be a percent of people interviewed for the job.
- Comment on ‘Punitive’ new guidelines limit what ABC staff can say on social media and in private messages, union says 5 days ago:
Social media I can sort of understand, but private messages? F off
- Comment on Productivity summit ends with treasurer signalling tax reforms 6 days ago:
Does it say it won’t be applied to ICE vehicles too?
- Comment on Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income 6 days ago:
This is unfair for people who have already saved/invested. They paid the higher income tax rates initially and they would pay higher tax rates on their retirement nest eggs.
This government can’t even sell the idea that we should talk to indigenous people about indigenous issues. So I have little faith they’ll get through significant tax changes.
- Comment on Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income 6 days ago:
That incentivises people to spend everything they earn.
- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 1 week ago:
This is bad policy for everyone except the high income earners. You can bet that $3300 per year won’t be adjusted for inflation and we’ll just end up paying more tax.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel 1 week ago:
If Bibi doesn’t like you, you must be doing something right.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
Thanks
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
I ask this as a non-hoon. I hate reckless driving and have never got a speeding ticket in 25 years of driving.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
Do you have a source for that? I don’t mean dependent like the government would collapse without it, but that they have included it in their budget expectations and would very much like to keep it.
- Comment on If regulated properly, ebikes could one day replace cars for millions of Australians 1 week ago:
As a daily bike commuter in Melbourne, these concerns exist, but they’re really not as bad as you make them seem. Most days in the year it’s very enjoyable to ride to work.
- Comment on Can crocodiles and canoeists coexist at Australia’s 2032 Olympic Games? 1 week ago:
It might mean a lot of world record times with the extra incentive!
- Comment on Films and video games have age classifications. Should books? 1 week ago:
Books need informative ratings that aren’t enforced. You should be able to tell what sort of book you’re about to read to your kid, before you get to the detailed sex scene.
- Comment on From wild to workable, 23 big ideas for boosting Australia's productivity 1 week ago:
Good on them for trying, but some of these are awful ideas. It’s like every expert just used it as an excuse to publicise their own issue, even if it wasn’t relevant to productivity.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
It is funny when revenue raising and incentivising behaviour get mixed. Like when governments become dependent on speeding fine revenue.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
This would incentivise cycling and public transport
- Comment on Have men really stopped reading? We take a deeper dive into the data 1 week ago:
Damn Americans
- Comment on The ultra-wealthy have exploited Australia’s tax system for too long. It’s time to ensure everyone pays their fair share 1 week ago:
I’m all for changing the tax system to be more fair, but that figure about people earning over 1 million a year and paying no tax is misleading. Their taxable income would be zero to pay no tax. They would do this by losing all the money in investments or giving it all to charity. So they didn’t net anything, so they don’t pay tax. That is fair. We tax net income and net profits.
- Comment on Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point 1 week ago:
It’s similar to how music went from people buying albums to listening on iPods and phones. You can’t fight the tide, and if you’re not in their proposing solutions, you’ll have to live with someone else’s solution. Streaming (in its current form) isn’t great for artists, but the industry dragged it’s heals for so long they were left with no other choice.
- Comment on Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point 1 week ago:
I think it’s not controversial to say content creators need to get paid for the content they create. But I think we need to find a way to do that while adapting to this new era of AI.
- Comment on Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point 1 week ago:
They’re not making an llm. He’s commenting on fair use and copyright laws. Copyright has been broken for a long time. AI just highlights it. It needs to be reimagined.
- Comment on Tracey Spicer: Watering down Australia’s AI copyright laws would sacrifice writers’ livelihoods to ‘brogrammers’ 2 weeks ago:
I think she has a good point, but this is a poorly written piece. She dilutes the issue of scraping content without paying for it, with the quality of ChatGPT’s output. And she doesn’t seem to know what a “brogrammer” is. It’s not just anyone who works in silicon valley. It’s a jock who would have previously gone into finance, but now chooses tech because it’s the hot thing. Who does she think is a brogrammer? Sama? Ilya? GB? Karpathy?
- Comment on Higher interest rates smashed landlord profits, but negative gearing means few sold up 2 weeks ago:
It’s weird to say that because of negative gearing, property investors can’t lose. Negative gearing is literally losing. You can only negative gear when you’re making a loss.
- Comment on Victorians could soon have the right to work from home two days a week under Australian-first laws 3 weeks ago:
As a full time WFH employee, I don’t know about this. I think it makes sense for some jobs, but having it as legislation seems weird. Some people like working in the office and want to work at a company with an in office culture.
- Comment on The biggest voices need to admit Australia is a low-taxing nation before joining the economic reform conversation 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I understand. My comment was about marginal tax rate. It is true that marginal tax rate can go up to 58%
- Comment on The biggest voices need to admit Australia is a low-taxing nation before joining the economic reform conversation 4 weeks ago:
You’re confusing effective tax rate with marginal tax rate.
- Comment on The biggest voices need to admit Australia is a low-taxing nation before joining the economic reform conversation 4 weeks ago:
Marginal tax rate is the tax rate you pay on each additional dollar earnt. The fact that the Australian government hides some of the taxes doesn’t mean you don’t pay them or that they’re not part of the marginal tax rate.
- Comment on The biggest voices need to admit Australia is a low-taxing nation before joining the economic reform conversation 4 weeks ago:
Oh sorry. Compared to USA at least. The top tax bracket starts much lower in Australia