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[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@Thejimpenman That's only if you believe the governments inflation figures, realistically your house hasn't gone up in value at all, it's that income hasn't kept up with the actual
inflation

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@borisyeltzin @craigkellyAFEE They have, the tide marks on fort Dennison show its risen 70mm in the time they've been there, which is within natural fluctuation but it has risen

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@RennickGBR They can be recycled it's just more expensive to do so than it's worth, there should be a requirement for the companies to recycle them at end of life just like mining companies have to repair mining damage.

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@aboy14695 @rationalaussie @K8050906068853 I've seen the same thing, IQ doesn't seem to correlate with ability anywhere near as much as you'd think, I know guys with 2 digit IQ's who are very capable and guys who are very clearly 125+ who you'd never employ

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@TimQMLCNorthVic @rationalaussie Most likely worse, to create things you need to have some basis in reality or they won’t work, would you feel safe on an airplane if you knew the guy maintaining it had done that?

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@rationalaussie You also seem very confused at how apprenticeships work, a sparky apprenticeship is 4 years and they can be signed off in 3 if they are really good, you’re not finished after a certain amount of time, you are finished when other tradesmen think you’re good enough

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@rationalaussie No matter how smart someone is they’re not going to be able to replace centuries of specialist experience, do you think that your solution to a problem will be better than the 100 iq guy thats been solving those problems for 50 years?

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@Tubthumping1 @rationalaussie Those guys are unemployable in the private sector

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@Teslaconomics Yes but probably not what they're teaching them, I remember teachers in the 90's telling us "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and now I do advanced math on my phone daily...

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@ItIsHoeMath The settlers in Australia weren’t “genetic trash”, while some were convicts who were mostly transported for “crimes of desperation” a lot were the wealthy sons who were unlikely to inherit, Most payed for transport knowing they could build a more successful life in Australia.

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@OMGTheMess @OzPollies That’s to be expected, we’ve already lost most of the Korea/Vietnam guys and the Iraq/Afganistan guys are too young to die from age related illnesses

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@ausstockchick I’m heavily invested in housing solely so my children will have somewhere to live, but I still feel bad about it.

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@CmonMick @johngoddard Culture and family.

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@cicohipe @RoadknightThe I'm pretty sure the reason is that we have the vast majority of the population doing unproductive make work jobs and parasitising these productive people, there are more people on welfare than there are tradesman, 1 in 5 work for the government...

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@RoadknightThe Half of that is materials/consumables/vehicles/tools/workshop, 25k of it is gst and 40% of what’s left is income tax, putting it simply the unproductive and parasitic government workers earn more.

[Rowie @PeterRowe184]

@RoadknightThe Revenue is a very different thing to income, 250k per year per tradesman is pretty standard across most industries and it’s not making anyone rich