To quote the study, the walkscore.com data is "the earning records from all American citizens born between 1980 and 1982 whose parents filed taxes." Your use of the number 382 seems to be rhetorical implying that the sample isn't large enough. Moreover, your use of "buy/beg" verges on a predicative sort of ad hominem. Your criticism are totally valid, but you missed the most egregious flaw: "[O]ur analyses treat walkability and access to public transportation as interchangeable."
As an outsider to the American tax system: is this a strong selection that could impact results? Here in Germany for example filing is optional for a lot of people (not just legally, but also in terms of expected returns) which would have quite unpredictable results on a study like this.
Excludes recent immigrants or orphans then, both of which groups could be particularly acute case-studies of upward mobility.
Big picture though, walkability and public transport definitely imply at least the potential for interaction and empathy, and cars the opposite.
The Highway and Automobile culture are symbols of totalitarian cultures which deny people more sustainable and equitable alternatives for mobility and transport. - Vandana Shiva, February 19, 2004.
It is 100% mandatory to file taxes if you make over $12k and over $13.5k if you’re over 65 and file single. Doesn’t matter if it’s from a job, investment, or unemployment.
I can imagine Americans living abroad will be shaking their fist at the parent poster. They have to pay taxes in the USA even when working abroad, never mind in the USA!
Sigh, this always comes up and I’ve never met a single person who actually had to pay taxes. My brother in law was out of the country for a decade and a few other friends lived in Europe and never paid.
You do still have to file a tax return, which can be a bit complicated if you have foreign income. But if you work in Europe, you're right that you likely won't have to pay any actual US taxes. You can take the European tax paid as a foreign tax credit against the US taxes, and that almost always zeroes it out, since European countries mostly have higher tax rates. That was the case for me, anyway.
You will have to pay some tax if you work in a country whose tax rates (for your bracket) are lower than US federal tax rates. That can be the case for Americans working in places like Hong Kong or the Bahamas.
California’s residency requirements are quite strict, and they don’t offer foreign tax credits, so if you’re planning to go back after a few years you’re effectively being double-taxed on the state income.
It is required in the states but could potentially limit results to include less low income/unemployed individuals. Almost any job will withhold income tax and send it off to the government without you doing anything.
> Across the West, the basic problem of a corrupted productive process is becoming a quiet crisis. The reason is simple. The people that do the work in organizations are increasingly excluded from the decision-making about the work. That is why Boeing is losing its ability to build planes
The best managers simply stay out of the way of the people working, but most managers these days are in it to aggrandize themselves and cause suicides. Are you listening Facebook?
> If you can counterfeit something for cheap, the counterfeit will eventually take over the entire market and drive out the real commodity.
This is definitely true in the case of parmigiano reggiano cheese which is a $1.2 billion dollar a year business from the real cheese. The fake cheese, called parmesan, makes $100 billion. 99% of Parm cheese sold each year is fake.
Some people are actually ok with this as long as it's not really the work, but similar to the work being done. Good for you that you noped out pretty quick.
People work for people. Not the company. That said, I've spoken to lots of WeWork employees in the past. If you had a simple job, Adam wanted to know how you could do it faster, or automate it (with you out of work). If you worked on the tech side which seemed to be Ruby on Rails with Bootstrap, well, you were in New York at first, but then Adam would accuse techies of not thinking big enough, or not delivering 5 points worth of features in the time it took 1, and where's the mobile app? The guy knew absolutely nothing about technology, and when he outsourced the reservation system to India, then I knew it really had nothing to do with innovation. What's worse is lots of folks worked there expecting six figures before the outsourcing, but got nickel'd & dimed to something way under six figures. All without a PIP.
Edit: removed exact salary amounts because my sources said it would out them.
