See above - I worked with someone who tried to introduce a petrol pump in the UK that clearly showed price and tax. It was blocked from being used. (View Post)

When I worked for an oil company, one colleague was tasked with comping up with a single petrol station pump design for use round the world. The advantages were that it would meet all the highest sta… (View Post)

Christmas bonus and a mid year bonus, IIRC It's a con, since the monthly wage is lower to make up for it. (View Post)

Lincoln suggested* buying out the Southern slaveholders, late in the Civil War. Because the monetary cost would be less than finishing it militarily. And with lots less dead people. *some say this wa… (View Post)

They are closer than you think. Milei, under the populist stuff is enacting anti-populist policies. Pretty much classic IMF-shrink-the-state-to-match-the-tax-base stuff. His denunciation of tariffs i… (View Post)