Belgian 29 year old male, accountant, into physical fitness, outings and watching TV series/films. Enjoy pestering you about your political views and interested in economics.

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  • Depends entirely on the far right political parties. They’ve surged up towards 20% lately.

    Idk really the appeal, but no clue if it’s a temporary situation.

    Europe is dealing with an aging population, so 2nd generation immigrants are a blessing.

    Like to be honest, even if the parents aren’t that easily integrated into the work force, the real pearls are the children they bring with them.

    It takes time, effort and resources to raise kids and plenty of 2 income couples have stopped having kids. We need people for the future.






  • Never been in USA, but working at McDonald’s here in Belgium while living at your parents, with 2000 euros net from a minimum wage job… Yeah after a year you can buy the house that I showed.

    I’m sure you can work while living with your parents.

    Having the 25k euros is only step one. Afterwards you need to build up capital for passive income when you are in Indonesia.

    The cost of living is very low. the median net worth in Indonesia is 5000 euros. So with your starting capital, you’ll be ahead of the curve.

    With your English, you have some niches you can do. Like working for English speaking companies. Local or from your computer.

    most people that do this, go to Bali. But if you want cheaper areas, the place I showed is also do-able.

    Bali is popular because more people there speak English. For Americans, the Philippines is popular because English is an official language.

    My wife’s indonesian so if she wants to, we’ll go there.

    likely not, because I prefer Belgium. But I’m also not complaining about the high housing prices here in Belgium. I know why they are high. It’s because people want to live here.

    Same reason why housing is more expensive in Bali… People want to live there.



  • RSF was just an example to show that such a ranking exists. Removing conflict of interest and the ability to censor will be what’s needed in order to have real unguided public opinion.

    That’s difficult to achieve.

    The major thing to think about are things like CP, obviously that needs to be removed from existence.

    So there’s positives to control, but nobody does anything for free.

    Like here at Lemmy, I assume an instance creator of a popular instance will be able to be bought by companies or politicians.

    Like Musk just bought twitter, lots of newspaper companies are owned by oligarchs. Other sources of news are owned by governments.

    There’s always a conflict of interest.

    It’s difficult to get away from.



  • Sent you a message after clicking on your username on the post I got banned on, just to see if it reaches you.

    I know Belgium isn’t socialist, we’re rather social democratic.

    There’s also market socialism which doesn’t require public ownership, just that the workers own the company. Something like Huawei.

    But the end result. We have a median net wealth of 250k euros per adult. I’m quite happy about that.

    We have some nationalised stuff. Our commuting train company, post company, Bank and insurance, bus transport, télécommunications company. Infrabel.

    The government plays a major role in our lives but they are still liberal.

    They just tax and transfer. 45% of the GDP is tax revenue. Belgians are doing just fine.

    Owning key industries is useful, like the french with their nuclear reactors. But you as employee it’s better to have private options as well when it comes to employment.

    Like in Cuba they have 1 employer. The government. Sure, the doctors get paid the most in the country, but still they flee to other Latin American countries so that they can fund their family in a luxurious housing unit in Havana.

    This is because there’s more competition to buy the doctors their services in those other Spanish speaking countries in the Americas.

    Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike socialist economic stuff, if it’s used properly.

    I despise the censorship.




  • I ring my bell when I pass people that won’t see me on my e-bike.

    if I wanted to be a complete fucking jackass, I’d just pass them at 30 km per hour without making a sound.

    I’m sure they would love that.

    It’s the responsibility of the vehicle user to make sure that people know of them.

    Noise is extremely useful as it’s a 360 radius.

    It’s annoying, but useful.

    Unless you can come up with other solutions to make pedestrians aware of vehicles. Beyond just looking. It’s extremely easy for a pedestrian to put their foot on the road before looking sideways just because he heard nothing.