In Russia:
Income tax: 15%
Medicine: 5.1%, actual quality is lousy, because it’s chronically underfunded and corrupted for 30 years, people who can afford often pay out of pocket.
Pension tax: 22%, officialy “frozen” money by government to be literally taken away from people, they aren’t even serving to fulfill one’s pension paper, i.e. this is just real part of income tax.
These are the bigger ones, that all in reality act as true Income Tax.
Education in Russia is another myth, its quality is declining and was declining steadily.
There are other taxes in Russia on business as well. China would outcompete it without even trying.
Your friends are far from average then, I have seen average children in Russia, as I was born in it. These are illusions.
Also inflation, even if calculated through official estimates is much worse in Russia and if we compare “real” inflation in Russia and Germany, the Russian will be still times higher, this is for decades.
Yes, these are likely not average, bank employee can be a really good position. Business owners are a small percentage of population. Software companies have some unique benefits in developing economies, especially in post-USSR countries.
VAT is slightly higher in Russia both, standard is 20% and reduced is 10%.
It becomes better for people earning more, but for comparison this will be top 1% in a literal sense, actually AFAIK less than 0.5% get income higher than 4-5k euro per month, it’s officially published government stats.
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Artificial intelligence is not an art form. Most of their material consists of copyrighted art from stock photography markets. I have been involved in stock photography for many years. This is one of the reasons some stock agencies strictly avoid AI generated images and videos.
I never post anything here but today I saw this video and it made me reflect, the rapid dynamics of city life, the misguided technological advancement, and the destruction of natural ecosystems are increasingly the common denominator of modern life, people live stressed, always accelerated, and processing a huge number of meaningless information that at the end of the day does not contribute anything. Living a simple life in nature resonates more and more with me, I even feel that disconnecting yourself from certain excessive stimuli such as those that exist in big cities, can make you connect with other types of inner information, when the noise is turned off you can hear other more subtle sounds…
Obviously nowadays it is more difficult to isolate yourself and live a quiet life in nature, since everything has been concentrated in the big cities, but it would be great a collective effort to try to live a less accelerated life, more contact with nature, stop feeding the multinationals and other healthier things for our existence.
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While I selfishly enjoy AI for the areas I struggle in, like mundane resume writing, LinkedIn bios and the sort, I was adamant I wouldn’t allow it too much space in my sphere. That being said, my fear of AI’s ability to take away creative jobs is waning a bit.
Stock imagery has taken a huge hit for sure, as has copywriting, but we are seeing AI’s limitations and how it is best utilized as a TOOL by the creative themselves rather than a replacement. I do hope stock photography comes back more fully, however, AI seems to create better environmental images than it does humans. The AI generated humans are sickly.
Stock photography still alive. But the way it works a bit tricky now. You just need to do modeling shot rather than doing amateur pictures. Which is what I mostly do.
Better stock agencies like gettyimage and sutterstocks are good place to start. Adobe I’m not familiar with their policy and stuff but I heard they accept ai generated pics.
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