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qyron

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European guy, weird by default.

You dislike what I say, great. Makes the world a more interesting of a place. But try to disagree with me beyond a downvote. Argue your point. Let's see if we can reach a consensus between our positions.

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • No prices? Things are getting worse.

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • I'm aware of that qwirk in your system. No such thing here. And I have a mortgage to pay.

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • No amount of cashback is enough to convince me to sign up to one.

    Well... maybe 100%.

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • And I keep thinking my country's tax system is weird.

    No way! That is ridiculous. That is essentially equating to create tax havens inside your own country. What is stopping people from high taxation states to just go for a shopping spree on a non-taxation one? Or even a city or town? Nothing. It makes no sense.

    My country has a mainland and two autonomous regions. All taxation is designed centrally. VAT, special taxes, income, private and corporate, vehicles, land, house, etc, everything is established centrally. The autonomous regions do have the freedom to fine tune the end % of tax but really nothing else. They can't exempt a tax, just because.

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • Why would that be?

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • I think that builds into the credit card trap.

    You should not need to guess-timate how much you're going to spend, that is the issue.

    If you want to pay in cash, that's it. Pick up the items, add it in your head, that's it. Witholding how much you are really going to spend by not applying all charges holds you hostage.

    Yes, you can just put it to your card and pay it later but why?

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • I've seen a tag change price but that price would only take effect the next day, as the store would be having a promotion on peaches. I simply asked for a clarification and the tag was rolled back.

    On the day price changes are only done to clear perishables that otherwise will end in the trash, like fresh pastries or bread. And such changes can only take effect near to the closing hours of the store. Price variations throughout the day is a crime and stores have been heavily fined for it.

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • Take the hat off. Weirder theories exist.

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • Meanwhile, electronic price tags have been introduced in the market.

    It's these small e-ink devices that are tethered to a central input station in the backroom, where a person inputs prices.

    I've seen tags change in front of my eyes, updating price, adding promotional info or changing the product available on shelf.

    Inventory movements are not an excuse, I'd say. Regardless the end sale price, if a product is not sold, it is just inventory, which value is fixed for the company.

    Lidl moves tons of non perishable inventory from central wharehouses to stores, daily, and they could not care what the end price was at the store. A given item may cost an X amount in a given season, disappear for a couple of months, then return to the shelves with a different price. The inventory value does not oscilate.

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • Tip is of no concern here. It's a gratuity that may be given, outside the check, to the server.

    The tax rates have to be declared on the product label. VAT is 23%, 13% or 6%, depending on the nature of the product. Basic food items and basic necessities, like baby diapers, are 6%. 13% is usually reserved fro restaurants and everything else goes into the higher rate.

    Fuels, tobacco and so called luxury items have other taxes added to it, which are declared in the receipt.

    It isn't an opaque practice.

  • Does the average american, when naming a price of any given item, takes into account taxes or disregards it?

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  • That is so bizarre.

  • Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?

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  • Because they can.

    I can't read a single word of german but I'm glad to randomly stumble on a german post.

    Makes the fediverse more pluralist.

  • Why do we love stories so?

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  • Stories carry ideas and ideas is what moves humans.

    We are not satisfied with what is. As a species, our survival at some point depended on changing the world around us, not just enduring it.

    Be it an uplifting story or a cautionary tale, the ideas inside carry meaning and individuals will build a part of their worldview around it.

  • Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

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  • Have you considered applying for a sales representative at the company? The best pitch comes from the person that knows the product, inside out.

    There is the cultural difference I can't get past: yes, cooking may very well be a chore but I would more quickly change my entire diet than resort to substituion mixes.

    Nothing replaces the contact with real food items. The smells, the textures, the colours, the flavours. The pleasure that comes from it.

    I can be very pragmatic and utilitarian towards what I eat, borderline spartan, but a mix is not food and not even very sick I will consider it as such. It's fuel, sustenance, not food. I could live off it but, again, I would hate every moment of it.

    I sincerely admire your apparent indiference towards relying on that mix. I would rely on it to keep me alive, in a serious emergency, sure. But as a means to get to an end, not the end itself.

  • Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

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  • I'm glad to know you lived a fullfilling life at the time and it is obvious after your reply it wasn't about you or those like you I was thinking about.

    Although I still lack the capacity to view Soilent as a good name for a brand...

    Besides some cultural differences, I respect your view. It made your life easier (still does, if I'm understanding correctly), you don't seem a person who enjoys cooking that much (fair enough) and it freed time for things you had higher in your list of priorities.

    I can't do that. If need be, I would, but I'd hate every single moment of it.

  • Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials

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  • I still licked lead pain in the craddle, ate too many food preservatives and artificial colorants, ate too much red meat, too much fat, got micro plastics poisoning...

    And all I have to tell is bad breath, flatulence that could strip paint off the walls and a stupid sense of humour.

  • Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

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  • Bourdain was a genius. Controversial but they all tend to be as such.

    I agree with you. But please take a moment to consider this as well: people need time to eat. And by extension, to live. Something we are colectively slowly being drained of, through "work ethics", "fashion trends", "healthy life styles", etc.

    We need to live. To eat. To sleep. To be together. To get angry with each other and make amends afterwards. And we are being robbed of our humanity by not having it.

  • Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

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  • Some company actually markets a product under the name "Soylent"?

    Scary.

    When individuals reach, in my opinion, that point they are starving for more than food.

    Food is the first basic impulse we get satisfied and it is intermixed with confort, closeness and bonding. Later it will upgrade into a communal moment and the sharing of time and exchange of experiences.

    Again, in my view, to see eating as a chore says how lonely and dehumanized a person is. How little self worth they have.

    Which is sad.

  • Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

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  • My two takes on this:

    1. food is fuel

    I can and do subsist on a basic and bland diet if necessary. Food is a way to preserve my existence, so I have to eat. And when hungry I will eat anything for the sole sake of keep myself functioning. Some exceptions do apply.

    1. we're biologically hardwired to seek pleasure from our food

    That is why sugary food and more simply fruits and berries appeal so much to us: it's sweet, it tastes good, it's nice.

    We actively seek enjoyement in eating. When this no longer happens, worry yourself. Even old people enjoy eating.