Yeah I guess there would have to be some kind of bracket system like… the more people who are registered supporters of your party the higher level of campaign funding you unlock? And it starts at zero

That’s an interesting idea. I’ve found personally that every time I’ve worked for a publically traded company I’ve hated it because everything is just about increasing share price no matter what. OTOH I think investment is very useful for progress though… I’m not sure how investment would work without ownership

Ban political donations, all political parties get the same, small campaign budget and allotment of advertising space/airtime funded by the government instead

Forced retirement of politicians at whatever the national retirement age currently is

You missed a very important one, fix the main reason billionaires don’t pay any tax:

Using your unrealised gains (e.g. shares) as collatoral to take out loans should be considered realising those gains and thus subject to capital gains tax

As a person in Europe currently using it, I am very confused by this comment

Paywall :(

This is why we can’t have nice things

Nice idea but how do you propose they pay for the billions of dollars it costs to train and then run said model?

Even if that were happening (which isn’t what the article is saying), while it would really suck for all those people, it still doesn’t have anything to do with workers rights

Which workers rights are being infringed here exactly?

I dunno what you’re doing wrong but I bought an apartment in Germany a couple years ago and that wasn’t my experience at all. I saw plenty of nice places big enough for a family of three for 250-300k. We had a little bit more than 50k in savings and were able to buy something much bigger than we need with a large garden (we spent 440k), but could easily have gotten something big enough with 50k savings. We’re in a medium/large city but just not right in the middle, more towards the outskirts. Still only 15 mins bike ride to the centre though!

Yep that’s generally how housing prices work in Germany, since rent is heavily controlled and fixed interest rate loans are readily available, the value of a property adjusts depending on the current “cost” of a loan

Misleading post title: altered the original to remove the word “recent”

It’s amazing how much people will upvote something without reading it if the title confirms their biases

Even just calling it a “new study” is already a lie

The studies are from 2018 and 2020, “new study” in the post title is a complete lie

Yeah that’s never gonna happen, unless the EU forces them by law.

One of the many reasons I’m so so happy to be back with an Android phone after having to use an iPhone for work for a few years

Hello pot, meet kettle

It would be nice to spend one day on Lemmy without seeing a half dozen posts telling me to switch to Firefox nor 100 comments on every post that’s even vaguely browser-adjacent about how ever since they switched to Firefox their life has been nothing but joy and rainbows