I met a middle-aged couple from Denmark yesterday, and I had the opportunity to ask them about their country’s perennial standing in the top five of the World Happiness Rankings.
Me: Why do you think this is the case?
The man: We pay a bit more tax than you, but we get a great deal of value for it. Your top tax rate is 37%, plus whatever state tax may apply, for example, 10% if you live in California. Our top rate is 50%, but all healthcare and education is free. In fact, we have two sons in university who are being paid by the government to stay in school and graduate.
We have almost no crime, no homelessness, and no government corruption.
The woman: And no guns. Even our police don’t have them. Our children are safe from getting gunned down.
I encourage readers to check out this tongue-in-cheek ad for plant-based meat.
There is a maxim in marketing warning against “promoting the enemy line,” this is so clever, I can see where it could be quite effective.
As we all know, the GOP will stop at nothing to win the midterms, thus making it impossible to remove the sociopathic criminal from the White House.
But did any of us see this coming?
Macabre.
I just met a woman who’s been a flight attendant for Delta Airlines since the early 1990s, who laments that her company has been ruined by corporate greed, which has trashed so many other things in our lives.
As it turns out, the CEO makes more than $20 million per year, largely based on bonuses associated with cutting costs. “Now we have tray tables that don’t work and seatbacks that don’t recline, and nobody even thinks about fixing them.”
She went on, “This shift has been particularly obvious in the case of Delta, which, when I started with them, was known for its southern charm and the feeling of welcoming its passengers. Now, that gone. It’s like it never existed.”
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