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CrowReally replied to
wallet72 on Isn't It Kind of Crappy Towards Society to Buy a Lot (if Any) Investment Properties?

"it's interesting that every example you listed is only as valuable as the market thinks it is" Not sure if this is a tongue-in-cheek...

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WizMuncher on Are We Being Completely Ripped Off? (On Paracetamol, Kaffir Leaves, Baked Beans, Bike Accessories and Other Items)

Even if we ignore the Laos stuff, there's a lot of other white noise mixed in with it. I mean, let's look at the baked beans comment: "And...

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MrChum on Are We Being Completely Ripped Off? (On Paracetamol, Kaffir Leaves, Baked Beans, Bike Accessories and Other Items)

Though precisely because of the mining boom, that's exactly why mining supplies had that price rise added on to them [as did everything...

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WizMuncher on Are We Being Completely Ripped Off? (On Paracetamol, Kaffir Leaves, Baked Beans, Bike Accessories and Other Items)

We're sort of mixing apples and oranges here, however. Fuel isn't a type of product that changes price based on the level of development,...

CrowReally commented on Are We Being Completely Ripped Off? (On Paracetamol, Kaffir Leaves, Baked Beans, Bike Accessories and Other Items)
I didn't know a lot about Laos (and still don't), but it looks like it's one of the poorest and oppressively governed places in East Asia....

CrowReally commented on 'Safe' Businesses to Buy into
Aged care services (and to a lesser extent, disability support services *see bottom paragraph) are growing industries [look at how much of...

Apologies if you didn't understand. I limit this apology to purely what I have said, if I have to apologise for everything you don't...

I was giving up on trying to discuss the complexities of the tax system with you. So we'll never know whether what you said was actually...

Did a sneaky little "or has portrayed himself as male" get edited in to your first sentence, Donald? Getting a little *nerrrrrrrvous* about...

"For mskeggs had his effective tax rate wrong and never answered guess he couldn’t fess up, even though he drilled me for having the...

Look, I'm sure some of us are comfortable taking hot tax law tips from people who forgot about PSI and then said "look, just get 2 clients,...

Yeah, he's the one who should be on this thread, #yourwelcome

Alright, so when you said "Aw, me company would earn that money, then pay me a yearly wage, and I'd somehow get tax credits back (I...

The fact that you hadn't even heard of PSI (which has been around for twenty years) and tried to show off your clever planning in spite of...

And then you'd get a little tap on the shoulder from the ATO and a reminder that "PSI" stands for more than just pounds per square inch,...

There's some nuances to the discussion that I'm going to drop here, not so much to correct you, but I think the general reader of the...

Well, the "best value" books are to write about areas in your own profession because you have a solid knowledge on the subject base, you...

CrowReally commented on Ideas of How I Can I Make Money on The Side?
Free podcast: "Write a Non Fiction Book On the Side": https://www.writerontheside.com/podcast/ Actual e-book for free here:...

"I am intimately familiar with the situation you think you're describing (I'm not sure how many others really do). However, you're trying...

CrowReally commented on What Are You Doing with a Cooked Lobster?
Half the foodies think it's sacrilege, the other half think it's amazing: Lobster Mac 'n' Cheese.

I'm not here advocating some sort of political action to combat these problems. That would be noble of me, but I'm actually fighting a more...

The entire scenario has been created as analogous to explain the concept that when there's a power imbalance during a negotiation process,...

That made me chuckle, have an upvote for having the outright cheek to continue to add options to my example... but why make yourself walk...

No. What you've decided you're *probably* comfortable offering in a negotiation has nothing to do with the appropriateness of the offer...

Alright, now let's say there's only 3 factories in this tiny, third world town, those are the pay rates the Factory Owners have set as the...

I'm not going to go round 2 with you because you're still baking that same circular reasoning into your arguments ["In answer to whether...

The analogy was purely to demonstrate how through no fault of your own, a power imbalance can arise that will result in you not being able...

You're missing the point. Moral/ethical discussions are about where in a person's conscience they drew the line for, well, ethical...

It's exploitation to pay a worker the sum that they willingly agree to **if** there's an imbalance of power as part of the negotiation...

"Presumption of innocence" is a loaded term (it's used in discussions of whether someone's committed a crime or not). This **could** be a...