woberto Report This Comment
Date: May 24, 2026 03:13AM

This mindset bothers me the most amongst all the modern Libtard/Socialist/Commie children.
Persons that want to make money and increase their leisure time, such as the 1% and even loser schlubs like me, do whatever the rules allow.
Minimum wage is set, you don't get brownie points for paying more, until you see the value. If your job can be replaced by any untrained person off the street then you are fucked.
Tax is the same, big or small, we all take measures to reduce it.
Vote my friends, and try and understand what you are voting for.
Aussies are heading for a death tax, I have been warning all my lefty mates for the last ten years. Now they all have mortgages and kids with no jobs, they are hailing me as the next prophet (and shitting themselves). But me voting for the coalition is equally stupid so I need to rethink my life too.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: May 24, 2026 07:55AM

There's no party that represents me.

I disagree about the death tax likelihood. Just like the changes to negative gearing wouldn't happen after being so unpopular and promises not to raise it again, the death tax will be in the same position. What? Labour lied?! Fuck. Maybe it will happen after all..

Liberal/coalition are no better though. Not that they have a chance in hell these days. Totally lost their way in the past 5 years or so. Seeing the total destruction of the party that held most of the seats in 2020 was something else. The rise of Pauline, the death of the major parties.

The people are sick to death of the same shit, they're voting with their feet. The Teals, One Nation, anything but the major parties especially in Melbourne. The problem is there's still nothing worth voting for.

I probably pay more tax than most billionaires. I've never had an investment to negatively gear, so the tax minimisation strategies haven't been high on my list. I well and truly pay my fair share. By the time I'll be in a position to be doing any of that stuff, it'll all be gone. I'm just a wage slave. The only chance my wife and I have left are some parents.

It's sad, but we'll be just like everyone else relying on the death of the boomers to move forward.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: May 25, 2026 02:54PM

Odd how hoarding is considered a disorder unless it's money being hoarded.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: May 28, 2026 03:22AM

yeah/nah it's not hoarding but I take your point.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: May 28, 2026 10:50AM

Merriam-Webster and Cambridge dictionaries disagree with you, woberto.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: May 28, 2026 12:43PM

What is it you think Bezos hoards?

quasi Report This Comment
Date: May 29, 2026 10:37AM

Already stated. Try to pay attention.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: May 29, 2026 12:09PM

Do you think billionaires have piles of money lying around or sitting in a bank? These guys (and some ex-wives) have wealth lying around but that is not tangible until it is liquidated. What they have is a huge income and an equally huge appetite to spend it.
He might hoard cars though, lije Seinfeld does.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: May 30, 2026 01:11PM

Of course they don't have huge piles of money lying around, but they do have quick access to huge piles of money. I guess that's what makes it seem like it's not hoarding when in fact it's hoarding of the worst kind, hoarding something that could be used to alleviate suffering but you can't actually see the piles, just all those zeroes.