Murphalot wrote:Cultural diversity is inherently self-destructive - entirely.
Exactly the opposite.
I study a lot of history, and history speaks unequivocally on this subject. Every Golden Age in human history is the result of cross-cultural fertilization.
If you think of Athens in the 4th Century B.C. The original Bronze Age Myceneans had recently been overrun by Iron Age Dorians. At the same time, Phoenician traders brought new ideas and new technologies from the Levant. Meanwhile, the growth of the Scythian slave trade brought fresh genetic material from the Black Sea region. Voila, the Golden Age of Greece.
Think of 17th Century Britain. Not some homogenous Anglo-Saxon blob to begin with, but already a melting pot of half a dozen different Nordic and Celtic strains. And then, a flood of refugees -- Huguenots expelled from France, Jews expelled from Spain, economic refugees from the Pomeranian coast, traders from as far as Egypt, all coming together in the great multicultural and multilingual marketplace that was 17th Century Britain. Voila, the greatest commercial empire the world has ever known! (later a political Empire, too, but the commercial empire came first.)
Think of 19th Century America. A vast swarm of immigrants from a dozen different European nations, mixing it up with Natives, recently freed black slaves, migrants from Spain's disintegrating Empire, immigrants from every significant population centre on Earth! Voila, the explosion of invention and ingenuity that led to the most powerful economy on earth!
Think of Alexandria in the 1st Century B.C., Baghdad in the 12th Century A.D., Florence in the 14th, Prague in the 15th, Amsterdam in the 16th, Paris in the 18th, as well as the aformentioned glories of Athens, London, and New York. All of them multicultural and multilingual swarms of people leading to great explosions of philosophical, scientific, artistic, and economic advancement.
A homogenous society is a stagnant society. Corners of the world where no migrants flow are places fighting against the arrow of time, complacent in their provincial ignorance, slowly decaying, getting inbred, declining, and becoming a sad footnote in the pages of history. Just as the regular flooding of the Nile brought fresh nutrients downriver to ancient Egypt, so the regular flooding of migrants brings new genetic material, new ideas and new methods to society.
Murphalot wrote:This prick wasn't paying taxes for 17 f*cking years.
Why would you think that? He was working, and jobs normally deduct taxes at source. Even if he found some (increasingly rare) "under the table" job, he's still paying tax. The owner of the business pays more tax because of the labour inputs he can't deduct, and he passes along the cost by paying a lower rate to his "under the table" guys. So, whether you pay overtly or covertly, it's literally impossible to work without paying income tax in some form.
And of course he pays sales tax when he buys things, he pays property tax on his house (even if you rent the tax is built into your rent) he pays taxes when he fills up his car, etc., etc., etc. Unless you move into the bush and wear nothing but bear skins, it literally is quite impossible to not pay taxes in some form.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2025 6:25 pm
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