"Coming from a rich family" or "part of a Native American tribe" is not a wide enough distribution of people to draw conclusions. Any failures / successes could be down to the environment and may not be able to be extrapolated to the rest of society at large.
On the other hand, if you're wondering if people who after the end of highschool, are able to finish college without having to get a minimum wage job to pay rent and for college, are doing better in life after college (and what measured amount better), the data already exists and there are far more than 2000 subjects.
If only it were simple. To actually do that, someone somewhere has to approve a budget of at least 2 billion dollars, that's how much money you're talking about. They have to both find the funding and have the political stamina to withstand the backlash on that kind of spending.
* my assumptions are: $25k income (which is just barely above the poverty line), for 40 years (which isn't long enough).
It wouldn't at all show the effects of a large scale implementation. You can't measure the effects of supply constraints and rising prices with small scale tests.
I always wondered if the art galleries in my high tax country were used for money laundering.
It seems pretty obvious: Individual A buys a piece of art for, lets says $10,000. A couple of years goes by, and the individual puts it up for sale at an art gallery. Individual B's company buys the painting for $100,000 - Voila, $90,000 laundered completely legally as private sale of art isn't taxed.
All that is required is a small group of friends with companies they control. Why the art gallery - to make it seem more legit that they are facilitating the sale.
First, I think you're thinking of tax evasion, not money laundering. If company B's money is illicit, it doesn't become less illicit because it's used to buy art.
Second, it's not quite as simple as that. Company B will have to convince their auditors that this painting is indeed worth $100,000, and Mr. A might also be asked to explain how it is that a company that might otherwise owe him roughly $90,000 suddenly became so interested in this particular, and very recently much increased in value, piece of art.
Bottom line, this strategy depends on not getting audited, and there are much simpler strategies that work perfectly well under such circumstances.
Also, you can easily roll up a 1 Million dollar painting in China, bring it on an airplane, fly it to Switzerland. Try bringing 1MM in cash out and in...
In the US, individual A would owe taxes on a $90,000 capital gain. Certainly, private sales aren't subject to any mandatory, automatic reporting; but the tax is still due. This could actually be useful for money laundering -- this $90k gain is clean money, if reported correctly; so maybe buy the art with a mix of dirty and clean money, then claim only the clean money as cost basis.
Because cars, homes, watches and jewerly don't jump in price as highly as art pieces do. You can't buy some shitty car and sell it for 1 million a few years later. As for selling antique cars and Ferraris and such, those are already expensive to begin with and the margins are low.
But you can artificially inflate some BS artist's work.
These things generally aren't unique, and so it's relatively easy to establish a market price, and flag it if something suddenly sells for a lot more than that.
I know many like me, who also just prefers the application language to be in English. From decades of using English I have no idea what many terms are in my native language, native terms are much harder to google, and many applications are also poorly translated. But that doesn't mean I want everything in English, especially not date/time formats.
I can set them, all right. Somebody else then needs to read them, though...and has to take care not to assume that LANG===LC_TIME===LC_DATE. Sadly, I do not see that happening; in most cases, the apps are picking one locale setting, seemingly at random, and using it for all the other locale settings.
I build Danish self service web applications, and from my perspective I would always want to control that date formats fits the displayed language.
Why must it then be in Danish? Because we would rather optimize for Danish users who for some reason have gotten the wrong browser version / localization settings and don't know how to change it.
An English speaking user would be much better served with a dedicated English version than just the date format being correct - if they can overcome the language barrier, surely they can overcome the date format.
Not only that - judging from used car websites in Denmark around the time, quite a few people seemed to have bought Teslas with expectation that they could sell them at a higher price after the tax increase. If I remember correctly it was initially rumored that the tax increase would not have been gradual.
I have been the victim of this tactic, and yes it is terrible. But it's also completely understandable. It's an extremely easy way for a company with deep pockets to bury a smaller company.
When you understand why someone does something - you can hate that they're doing it, but you also accept it in a weird way, because they're simply using the rules of the game.
And while you hope you would do better if you ever got to be in that situation the truth is probably, that most of the people getting suid in these situations would do the exact same things if the roles were reversed.
It seems far more likely that the universe is a computer game rather than a simulation. A simulation implies that it tries to simulate everything accurately - if it's a computer game, we can expect that the creators cheated in multiple ways to keep computations way down.
Obvious ways to cheat:
- Only the things you are directly experiencing and seeing is simulated to a high degree.
- If you ever came close to discovering the true state of the universe, the game might simply erase those thoughts or twists things to make them fit again.
- People who really study physics and have access to detecting whether the universe is a simulation are all NPCs :)
But why wouldn't the callcenter approach work? That's where I see many other industries going. Cut the workers, use a callcenter instead through telepresence. Even if it's only 95% selfdriving, that's massive savings compared to having a driver in there 100% of the time.
This could be great for freight trucking where they spend majority of time on freeways, which should be easy win for self-driving, and then do the last leg with a virtual, or physical pick-up driver. Likewise for shipping.
IANAL either, but from experience everything that can be seen as shady is very dangerous if it comes to a court case. It makes you look like the bad guy, and can easily be used by a good lawyer to remove focus from what should really matter.
You want everything to be as clear as possible, and with no obvious points that can be called into doubt. Even if you end up winning, you don't want a court case that drags out for multiple years, with devastating legal costs to cover while its going on.
