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Yes, like reading. No, we were specifically talking about inheritance taxes and preservation of intergenerational wealth. I asked for an example of your preference working. You picked Germany. I've shown you that Germany has high inheritance taxes on paper only, in practice hardly any are paid...

When will you stop trying these fucky games with me? YOU were suggesting high inheritance taxes, and gave Germany as an example. Still there is the cost of relocating, retraining, reorganizing etc, and the manpower there has no decades of experience making exactly this type of specialized...

Ask a lawyer. I've shown you numbers that as far as inheritance tax goes extremely little is paid, they probably qualify for some of the mentioned many types of waivers. Close but no cigar, less collectivism, more pure calculation in being established in making high quality niche machines and...

Sure, some of the high taxes they pay, others are there mostly to give lawyers work and make socialists happy, like the 50% inheritance tax you thought so effective. That helps, but alone is not enough, see how many of these countries in Europe stopped being so in the first place. All it takes...

Ah, so its just about appearances, not working. Because newsflash, Germany's top bracket 50% inheritance tax is notoriously dodged by those who would lose a lot on it, in similar ways to how taxes are dodged by the rich pretty much anywhere they are high...

Got a concrete example of your preference working? That's a matter of elite's culture, not any kind of laws that would have any chance of binding them, rather than being exploited by them. Functionally, they end up in oligarchy, however they got there. And everyone should have their own...

And not get much bang for their buck while at it, so they will think twice if that's the best way to spend their big bucks. If you think the elites who want to hand down their wealth to their children are bad, you aren't going to like the neo-elites wed to stupid causes who don't mind because...

Yes, and when Poland was trying to fix these problems, the partitioners only doubled down while they still could do so with little effort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_May_Constitution_Day That means they need to have some competition, internal or external, all the time. All wealth is...

Absolutely. PLC was curbing the magnate problems in its last decades, but that was "too little, too late" to suddenly be able to resist the foreign imperial expansions. Sounds like light, prototype version of classic resource curse. Ultimately the preservation of power is far more damaging...

Which is faint praise. Unnatural selection it is then. That's a lot of idiots, but still, as long as they had to contend with not having absolute power, in most places they eventually fell out of style.

As expected from the arrival of the industrial age. Perhaps they would have more credibility as victims of communism if they didn't stick with it, didn't push it on more lands, and didn't have a so much nostalgia for it afterwards. It had fanclubs small, medium or big almost everywhere, yet...

>people actually fighting In how many wars, civil wars, revolutions etc more than a small fraction of the population did "actually fight"? It's a red herring, such situations are more of an exception than a rule, for pure logistical reasons if nothing else. You think Muskov is not relevant to...

And yet they have chosen English, and the number of royalists was nowhere near significant even among the English speakers. So that's a lot of spinning to not make a good point in the end.

Better yet, 13 Colonies vs British Empire. Actually the same people, yet they threw a damn revolution to not be ruled by London, and made a whole new identity out of that. And London wasn't even that bad when compared to being ruled by Moscow. As for why Ukrainians use Russian so much, this is...

No it's not. The long term social and economic damage is still there, and it will take generations to fix - see: differences between formerly communist parts of Germany and the rest. It wasn't, and it wasn't a deal, because no one was asked if they want it, it was more of an offer they couldn't...