I reckon Europe should just rebrand every 5 years

@glowerworm

8 ай бұрын

Change to a minimalist logo

@firecreeper2249

8 ай бұрын

we should rename it to "the german confederation"

@vulkanofnocturne

8 ай бұрын

'Holy Brussels Empire'@@firecreeper2249

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

@@firecreeper2249 Merkel's Wörld?

@99_Planet

8 ай бұрын

Every 6 months.

The border dispute segment was comedy gold, i was laughing my ass off. Made up for the lack of ninja speedi rapid 12 in 1 slow cooker and air fryer in the video

@TheOnlyCaprisun

8 ай бұрын

Same! Also with the medieval Europe bit.

@asjaosaline5987

8 ай бұрын

Could anyone stop pushing climate agenda and educate themself. Fact is we live in Ice age and its totally normal, that when ice age starts to end climate will worm up. ANd dont say that pullshit that ice age ended 12K years ago. That was just mini cycle in bigger ice age. In Earth history there have been 5 ice ages and we are on the ending of the last this ice age will estimately end within 40 000-100 000 years. And before it ends it will go alot warmer in earth, all ice will melt Natural tromor will reform ecosystems. ANd there is nothing humans can do to stop it. We have litle to zero influence, most extreme cases we will shift invetiable 100 years foward or back. Crying about climate warming is so uneducated, im not sure what countrys thouse people live do they not have geography lessons and it is sickening to watch people try to teach other to how to live and dont even know how the world works. Its not targeted on first poster.

@rogink

8 ай бұрын

ninja speedi rapid 12 in 1 slow cooker and air fryer is sold out. Don't care!

Toycat: climate change is real, we need to avoid it Also toycat: everyone should AC to the max!

@Welgeldiguniekalias

8 ай бұрын

Europe: We must insulate our homes to prepare for climate change Soycat: UNKNOWN TECHNOLOGY BLYAT Edit: Oh, it's Toycat? nvm I'm leaving it in

@ArdaSReal

8 ай бұрын

​@@Welgeldiguniekaliassoycat😂

@MrKrisby

8 ай бұрын

I need my own fusion reactor in my garden to power my ac

@nick4506

8 ай бұрын

mini splits cool and even heat with greater efficiency then electric resistive heating. worlds better than burning turf or whatever yall do.

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

Due to climate change, AC is now normal in central europe.

"None 1707" means that the UK has never been subjugated ever since its creation in 1707(Acts of Union)

@alexandrub8786

8 ай бұрын

If we ignore Normandy,the dutch,Hannover. Sure that xpect for all the times they had an overlord,the UK never had an overlord.

@brunothedev

8 ай бұрын

@@alexandrub8786 Normandy was in England, the glorious revolution didn't affect that much and hannover never once controlled britain it was just an electorate that the king was a prince of

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

@@brunothedev Yeah so the king was subjugated. That's OK you remain unique, brave and beautiful. Normandy was in England ... OK now you're just going too far.

@brunothedev

8 ай бұрын

@@luxuryvagrant6496 "Normandy was in england" is my non-native english speaking way of saying that i just affected england and not scotland

Hope you are doing well mr toycat

SAP is also, arguably, a tech company.

@MatejKebe

8 ай бұрын

And it's so much bigger than Nokia

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

Software Aus Pakistan

@pentestical8265

8 ай бұрын

Not even arguably. It is a tech company and was categorised as such.

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

Aguably? What other category can it be argued into?

Another problem with international rail travel is that there are no websites that show you the possible connections of each company, like there are with airlines. You have to check and compare multiple websites if you want the whole picture

"I bet suicide rate was lower in middle ages" He says while talking in favor of a map of Europe some years after the end of middle ages.

@misspatvandriverlady7555

8 ай бұрын

Also, no need to kill yourself when the plague or pox or a fever or something is likely to get ya’ in the next year or two, anyway! 🤷‍♀️

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

it's more like you didn't have so many opportunities to kill yourself during the middle ages. Nature or someone else would do it for you.

@C4Oc.

8 ай бұрын

Maybe because you just had less time to think about suicide yourselves, it kinda was decided for you in a lot of cases (early death)

05:30 - 06:00 SAP? It's right there in the middle...

Tricle down economics toycat

@misspatvandriverlady7555

8 ай бұрын

I wonder if he realizes how much he talks like a rich guy. Like, the REAL problem is kids growing up in dangerous housing with inadequate food, inaccessible health care, and/or iffy education, not “a bad environment for big business” or whatever. 😕

@superspeederbooster

8 ай бұрын

​@@misspatvandriverlady7555Europe needs to be friendly to business it doesn't mean no social services and shit, every company moves out of Europe we will run out of money 💰, I'm saying tax cuts for domestic companies and taxation of foteign giants like Google and amazon

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

@@misspatvandriverlady7555 In Germany you pay 550 EUR per month for one person for public health care. It's more expensive than here in Switzerland, despite Switzerland paying better salaries to doctors and nurses and having more modern medicine in general. It's not a problem of "the rich", it's a problem of the working people. So they leave european countries. Or they demand so high salaries just to get by that companies don't want / can't afford to settle down.

@forzaacmilan36

8 ай бұрын

@@svr5423 None of what he’s talking about in the video is talking about “working ppl”. These thing really only apply to people who earning above 100 000 dollars a year. That’s why he talks about 47% taxes and capital gains tax. Those things really only affect high earners.

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

@@forzaacmilan36 You are wrong. The average full time earner in Germany earns less than 50k EUR a year and they already pay more than 50% tax. Apart from that, due to inflation, 100k a year is not that much.

The real issue is that the kingdom of ninjatwelveinoneairfryer isn't recognized

We have plenty of tech in Europe. Just in the Netherlands we have ASML and Adyen, just to name a couple.

@thndr_5468

8 ай бұрын

Never even heard of em

@thijsrietberg8764

8 ай бұрын

​@@thndr_5468China is solely depending on ASML for their machines that create chips lol. You can look it up if you are interested

@thomasvenneker

8 ай бұрын

Adyen doesn't really do much though, just skims a % off a great many transactions and thereby makes tons of $$$. ASML is the real deal, certainly.

@TagetesAlkesta

8 ай бұрын

Nice, here in the US we have Apple and Google, just to name a couple :)

@Welgeldiguniekalias

8 ай бұрын

@@TagetesAlkestaWow, impressive! That must bring in billions of dollars in tax revenue every year.

Free-range friendly rants that coin phrases like (9:13) "Speaking of things that i'm saying" are a treasure.

Based on one source on causes of deaths in London in 1632, doing away with yourself (called "made away themselves" in the source) may have been somewhat lower, like you mentioned in the video. The percentage of deaths caused by doing away with oneself in 1632 London was roughly 0.157% compared to today's London where the percentage is 1.04%, if my sources are accurate. The 1632 rate should be taken with a salt lamp-sized grain of salt though as it stated that grief was the cause of 11 peoples' deaths, and being affrighted was 1 person's cause of death. Also, it was 1632 so many doing away with yourself deaths may have not been seen that way.

@jaysefgames1155

8 ай бұрын

People underestimate the veracity of stats from the past. People still liked keeping track of things, at least in Britain, for at least the last 900 years or so.

Good to see you toycat. Take care of yourself out there :) sending you good vibes.

We should increase legal immigration of skilled people who could bring net contribution to tax revenue from day 1.

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

That's what Switzerland does well. We have many companies with people from dozens of nations around the world. Everyone working and earning good money and paying taxes.

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

@@svr5423 Yeah, being french I tried and understood that no. Either you are a net contributor, with certainty, or you look elsewhere.

Is the government taking half of what some people earn? There’s a threshold before those high rates come into effect. And a lot of rich people don’t actually pay so much. They pay accountants instead. Then if we’re going to talk about taxes as an aid to social mobility we also need to look at where our taxes are being spent. The answer to that question, even ignoring the massive corruption, I’d say that a lot of the money is spent in ways that don’t benefit the tax payer. Corporations benefit from our taxes, underpay workers, who then claim tax credits, and profits too often go abroad. I don’t mind being taxed. But I do mind how a lot of it is used.

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

In Germany, it's more than half for an average worker. That's why I moved to Switzerland. Many of my fellow students also left the country. It isn't attractive for people who rely on work for their income. Capital income is taxed less in many european countries though. But you still have high VAT, taxes on fuel etc. to deal with.

@vezokpiraka

8 ай бұрын

In Romania, it's a bit less than 50% (something like 48%) in total. The money is spent for the ruling class and we get nothing for it. Also there are no separate categories. Everyone pays the same percentage even if they get the minimum salary or millions. It's very fair this way. 😂

Map in 2100 sounds interesting. I'd love to see your perspective.

The tax map is very misleading for Switzerland. It’s a little complicated because the tax is different in every canton, but on average if you make 150,000 CHF (basically 1:1 EUR) you will only pay around 14% in tax, but this could be as low as around 7% in cantons like Zug.

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

Exactly. And basically, there is a surcharge if you want the people around you to speak french.

@fionafiona1146

8 ай бұрын

Germany has hardly any wealth or inheritance tax (easy to avoid at least) and having high income tax doesn't really mean anything to the ultra rich in that context I appreciate the work by TaxMeNow

there are two types of people in this world, those that love AC, and those that love AC but would rather die than spend money on AC.

@Timbothruster-fh3cw

8 ай бұрын

If you lived in a humid climate like I do in the US South, you would die if you didn't spend money on AC, no joke!!!

@YujiUedaFan

7 ай бұрын

There are 3 kinds of people actually: 1. Those who love AC and have it. 2. Those who lave AC and can't afford it. 3. Those who love AC and live in rented accommodation, so can't get it due to BS renting agreements.

The biggest reason for the lack of tech companies in Europe is the fact that most of them leave for the US. For example Spotify came from Sweden. This is because tech is notoriously capital intensive and US financial markets are much bigger then European ones thus they allow for bigger companies. This could perhaps be solved by having a joint stock market, maybe through the EU. EU politicians have expressed interest in doing this but odds are hell will freeze over before we can agree on where to put the stock market.

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

LUXEMBOURG !!!!! It's a fucking no brainer; great fiscal advantages, central position ready to grab the cream of the labour force. No brainer. And ... This is coming from a frenchman.

Shell is no longer Dutch as of last year.

Very interesting! I also liked your video about Israel and Palestine a couple of days ago. It was so reinsuring to finally hear someone make rational arguments about the whole thing instead of blindly supporting a side for ideological reasons... At least I learned today that in order to avoid taxes I just have to move to Afghanistan or Sudan instead, such a great place to live in xD And by the way, I wish you well for everything that might be happening right now!!

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

Switzerland is a good compromise if you want to stay in Europe. Since working from home is a growing thing, many less developed countries will be competing for skilled workers in the next decades and taking market share away from developed countries.

@catenaris

8 ай бұрын

@@svr5423 I agree! I was simply joking about Yemen and Afghanistan. x)

6:00 Yeah, I think that's reading into it too much. Just because it's rare for a high-tech company to be "THE BIGGEST" in individual European countries doesn't mean there's a dearth of successful or large tech companies. That map is more of a statement on how European oil companies have generally cornered their home markets and become huge because of their critical place in national logistics, than a statement implying a lack of development in any given nation's other sectors.

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

OK, I don't know where you are form but here in France it is a common trope that the nation spends dough on training great engineers only for them to find fortune in the US. Lost tax revenue, basically.

@9:52 Kinda weird to use the year 1707, its when Scotland and England unified under 1 ruler and they officially became the United Kingdom. I think its interpetating the ending of the Glorious Revolution as England submitting their rule to foreigners. However then It should say Scotland/Netherlands ruled over England because Mary Stuart and William of Orange ruled over England from 1688 until 1707. But thats just stretching reality with technically correct-ness, no one really sees it like that. In fact their rulership turned around a distasterous 50 years (beheading king Charles, Cromwell, civil war) into UK dominating overseas until WWI/WWII. Although I do think the map is meant like that. Muscovy technically should've paid tribute to Golden Horde until 1480 but stopped doing that years before it, 1480 was just the year they won a war agianst Golden Horde.

@MrSharkFIN

8 ай бұрын

It's exactly because that's when they officially became the United Kingdom.

i always watch your videos when i’m in the bathroom taking a shit. don’t take this to offense, it’s the biggest & highest honor a youtuber could have

@misspatvandriverlady7555

8 ай бұрын

I use them to time out my use of my corticosteroid inhaler. Toycat helps me keep my lungs well! ☺️

The minecraft man is talking about the fantasy countries again

15:45 a little "fun" fact, in Poland women drastically bring the average rates down, male rate is 16.5 while female is 2.4

5:35 Disregarding over regulation, Europe also lacks an overarching unified language. The big reason why China and the US have most of the companies is that they’re a large semi-homogenous blob with large consumer blocks. 11:02 New York alone has over 100,000 migrants lol

@glowerworm

8 ай бұрын

I vote we all switch to a universal language. I say we do finnish (I'm American and have no relation to Finland, I just think it's a silly sounding language so it's ideal for business relations).

@mortezz1268

8 ай бұрын

The newer generations of European countries all speak english

@redryder3721

8 ай бұрын

I vote we all start using IPA to spell everything. That way, when you read a word you know immediately how it is pronounced whatever language it is in, and you can even see accents.

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

We have English. Everyone speaks it.

@niluscvp

8 ай бұрын

@@glowerworm atleast we can swear perkele and saatana if we dont like it.

Hello to the fellow 2% of women watching 👋💜

@nonamegirl9368

8 ай бұрын

Hi✌️

You fail to mention a number of key issues where it comes to European personal income taxes. To begin with, there are numerous deductions which reduce tax burden on almost everyone who pays taxes. Aside from this, only the highest income brackets are shown, very few individuals actually pay 50% taxes as this is only paid over the last e.g. 50.000 euro; most people do not earn that much. Finally, you act like these taxes are a negative, while in reality they contribute to a reduction of inequality (just compare quality of life for the lowest earners in most European countries to the quality of life of the lowest earners in the United States).

@mielipuolisiili7240

8 ай бұрын

The last point about inequality was somewhat adressed by the map showing economic mobility. Sure, it's nice that poor people don't starve to death, but you can hardly say that you're getting bang for your buck out of your highest taxes when the poor still remain poor for several generations to come. Having high taxes to reduce inequality is fine, but actually lifting people out of poverty permanently through economic mobility has to be part of the deal.

@Spacemongerr

8 ай бұрын

​@@mielipuolisiili7240 High taxes are generally correlated with high economic mobility though. Examples are USA in the 50s-60s when top marginal tax rate was 70-90% and the American Dream was possible. Today (relatively)high-tax countries like Norway have higher economic mobility than USA. Also important is which taxes are high, having a high top marginal personal income tax rate is beneficial for economic mobility and equality while a high tax on basic foods or low earners is not.

@mielipuolisiili7240

8 ай бұрын

@@Spacemongerr Again, refer to the maps shown in video. High taxes for instance in Nordics does correllate with economic mobility. Not so much in rest of Europe.

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

but you also pay VAT, social insurance, energy tax, VAT on energy tax etc. In Germany, the average worker gives more than half their income to the state.

@Spacemongerr

8 ай бұрын

@@mielipuolisiili7240 Well, the tax maps in the video is only about a few specific taxes, so not a good basis to judge on. You have to judge the whole tax system, not just one or two taxes. And of course there are a lot of other factors than just taxes to take into consideration.

7:45 the Netherlands isn't a high risk for very high exposure to the sea, we are the Dutch people we are probably the most safe country to live in for the coming sea rising

18:26 i agree this is indeed the ideal map of europe

17:44 hehe I live in Wales, finally something we have going for us

Toycat you tickle the darkest side of my humour whilst remaining accessible to children/all audiences. THAT is your gift.

The UK as we know it was formed in 1707 though officially it was Great Britain back then, it has never been occupied. For the Unions constituent countries though like England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; the years in order are 1066, 1650 (its complicated, you could make the case for never) ,1536 (Was recognised as a country rather than a principality) and finally 1921.

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

In order ... 1066 1650 1536 1921 ... nuff said.

Many people who complain about high income tax don't seem to understand banding. In UK we pay no tax at all on the first £12570, pay 20% on the next £37700, pay 40% on the next £74870 and 45% on everything above £125140. So someone earning £125141 actually pays just under 30% and someone earning £1,000,000 pays 43%

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

Many people who complain about high income tax are militants. It's typical of your low-level business owner here in France, they try to cry about high taxes but their arguments are aimed at numerically illiterate people. it disgusts me. I am an ultra-liberal (for french standards) but the lack of frankness is what makes me wretch.

@jadapinkett1656

8 ай бұрын

​@luxuryvagrant6496 Imagine supporting the government forcibly taking your money through the threat of incarceration. Taxation is theft, and Europe is the worst.

17:44 thank you for this critical information good sir

Man taxes in the US really are low

SAP is a tech company toycat, they're selling software to enterprises

You should make a rule "you can enter Schengen area if you have more than one AC with you", it will solve all your problems And prevent suiсidеs by dеаth penalty for suiсidе attempt. Vote for me.

I watched your minecraft lets play series serveral years ago, If you go to one of those episodes you can see i suggested you to build a tree house. I cant belive it!

Where can you buy the best machine to MAKE computer chips?

"Hey guys, you know how the planet's boiling and record extremes happen every year? Let's get a bunch of ACs to make it even worse :)"

Toycat is against taxation of the rich?😢

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

Taxation is theft. The average income earner in Germany pays more than half of their income to the state. That simply isn't healthy as it takes away the ability of people to fund their education, retirement and family as well as quality of life in general. In the "middle ages" farmers rioted over having to give away 10% of their produce.

About illegal border crossings: The police actually searches all sorts of public trains coming from Austria into Germany (via Insbruck for example) because the numbers of illegal crossings have gone up. On a recent tip to Venice with the night train, the whole train was searched on the way back to Germany, because it was a combined train with wagons from the balkan. The police woke us all up at 4 am.

I'm not too sure about the science evidence for climate change being a threat but the behaviour evidence seems to indicate that it doesn't pose much of a threat. Major cities at risk of flooding, like New York, Amsterdam or London aren't experiencing a large-scale reduction in property prices. The opposite is actually happening and property is becoming more expensive in these areas. That suggests the rich people who drive the property markets don't really believe that climate change is a risk to their investments.

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

An asset is an asset : If your 100 euro purchase will bring you more than 100 euros back, that's a viable investment. Every other consideration does not come into the equation. "Rich people" are really into "keep it simple, stupid"

What Europe needs is a sound energy policy that doesn't rely on imports. There is going to be a severe energy shortage because it focused too much on green energy, which is unfeasible. It also, along with the U.S. and other countries, needs to find ways to make home and land ownership (meaning not rent or lease) more local and available. That will solve social mobility, which encourages people to start families in the first place. One way of doing this is to restrict ownership of land by foreign entities and multinationals, but another way is to outlaw no-fault divorce, and to give proper marriage rights to men so they can keep their property and rights to raise children and discourage women from switching partners merely because they want to exploit the system to get more income. Are these solutions controversial? Yes, but from a standpoint of solutions that can be done NOW to alleviate the EU's social and economic problems, it's better than it's current, brainless trend of "JUST PRINT MORE MONEY!" 🙄

@Timbothruster-fh3cw

8 ай бұрын

From the US, I agree with everything you just said!💯👍

This video should have been about 12 hours long

@misspatvandriverlady7555

8 ай бұрын

Hoping you keep showing up and being yourself, man; thinking Toycat could especially use your sarcastic, dry sense of humor for a while. 😊👍❤️

19:51 every Lithuanian's dream

Arm holdings are worth $50bn compared to Nokia $20bn. And Arm are basically a UK/European company that has listed on NYSE. If it was an American company there is no way the government would ever have let any other country own Arm.

Imagine working till July every year to pay the useless government...

SAP is way bigger than Nokia. It is the biggst software developer outside the US. They are most famous for selling erp systems

Norways third largest company is telecoms giant Telenor

The way you're bouncing about it looks like you really need to go to the lavatory 😂

Counterpoint, living in low tax places sucks ass

This will always be your first channel to me.

It's only the income above a certain high amount that's taxed at the highest income tax rate. That's how tax brackets work. And what are the brackets? The map says nothing about that. Do they start taxing you 55% on all income after the first billion, or right away? I'd say that's a pretty important difference. All you get from that map, is what your tax level asymptotically approaches as your labour income approaches infinity...

Is climate change real? Yes! What is the norm for the climate? No-one knows!

Why does nobody understand marginal tax rates. The bottom marginal tax rate in Denmark is 12%

@ibx2cat

8 ай бұрын

90% of people understand marginal tax rates, and what they effect is marginal amounts of work. Everyone will work enough to survive, but you want them to work enough to A) pay your taxes and B) not leave (depending on your political position, C) grow your economy more)

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

12% marginal tax rate, so you're left with 88% of your income in that case. Denmark has 25% VAT, that leaves you 66% of your income to spent and 34% overall tax rate. Already 1/3 goes to the state when you have a minimal income. That's working from January to April before you actually start to earn money for your rent and food. And social insurance is on top, so it gets even worse.

Its your fault for building houses that last hundreds of years and are difficult to renovate.

im very surprised that you're still uploading on your other channels following recent unfortunate events but i am very appreciative that you continue to upload content even in these tough times. i give my condolences and fully support you mr andrew toycat sir

@misspatvandriverlady7555

8 ай бұрын

It probably says something about how well I know the guy that his continued uploads don’t surprise me at all. He seems to mostly enjoy making content; it’s only when he tries to, for example, stream AND produce a video or two DAILY for WEEKS that it stops being fun for him. 🤔

Is there any explanation for why 98% of your viewers are men? I don't see the topic of geography as gendered so a 49:1 gender ratio is astounding.

@Spacemongerr

8 ай бұрын

Geography is definitively a heavily male-dominated topic. Not quite sure why, but it is. Economics too, and politics as well to a slightly lesser degree. So it's no surprise to me

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

It's the internet. Most users are, by nature, men. Has always been this way.

@isladurrant2015

8 ай бұрын

I'm female and have always been interested in geopolitical stuff... I can't believe I'm in such a small minority 😢

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

@@isladurrant2015 you're one of us, a honorary bro.

@chrisamies2141

8 ай бұрын

Supposedly my viewers have been 100% male for about the last 6 months. I know for a fact several women have watched the videos so I'm more than a bit sceptical about those YT stats.

You don't need ACs when you have metal shutters like most of the continent. Britain misses out on that, that's on you guys

I bet they had way more AC's in the middle ages too

in the map of the world of 2100 you might as well plant down civilwars in france. with all the refugees from war and climatechange i see it going wrong in a lot of places. but i'd be sure poland would be giant bc of their millitary.

Biggest company in France is LVMH, and in Norway it’s Equinor

9:52 If anyone actually does know what the map means here, Please let me know, I looked it up, 1707 is the year the acts of union combined England and Scotland, But I don't get how that would count as subjugation? Unless there's some more phrasing to the map not specifically mentioned by Toycat here?

@morganwheeleryear1123

8 ай бұрын

Ever since the act of union in 1707 forming Great Britain as a country, it has never been controlled by a foreign power.

great video.

Illegal border crossing is crazy in Europe. I live right on the border and the amount of police force that had to increase its workload because of border checks (which shouldn't even be a thing in the Shengen area) has gotten soo high. More money spent on police and military, more money spent on providing for them, more dangerous police chaces - It should be cut right at the root, not when they're already in central Europe. My cousin (white, female) had gotten chased down by a military car (!) because she was traveling around Europe with a van and they were suspicious that she might be dealing migrants. She's 23. Crazy.

Austrian Netherlands shall rise again!

"Oh, my greenscreen is going green" ~ Toycat 2023

5:10 this is outdated, Shell is sold to the UK. ASML is probably about the biggest company right now.

18:28 British man single-handedly brings peace to Europe

16:30 What should I say about Switzerland then?

i think i funny little thing to do would be to gather up all out of context clips of toycat when he is talking about something, one that i thought was funny was; "you know if you wanna go blow citizens up you can go do that... wait no i retract that i dont condone using explosives to kill people" it was something like this not exactly though

9:20 the map is wrong. Switzerland declared its independance from the habsburger (austrian family) in 1291 and left the holy roman empire in 1499. Its independance was then accepted in 1648. 1815 the confederacy was given its independace from FRANCE back after napoleon conquered it.

What you get wrong about the taxation is that it's a step based system. Say it's 55%, it's only 55% above what you earn above like 200k, depending on the country. The taxation is really off-loaded on the rich, which is a good thing and tries to keep things somewhat balanced, while still allowing for some people to be much more rich.

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

He specified "highest income bracket". Nothing wrong but your attention span on this one.

Sorry to throw this here where it really doesn’t belong, but Toycat’s world needs a memorial to his dropped muffin for its birthday Monday- RIP Toycat’s muffin. 🫡

I really don't think you are analyzing it too well. 0:35 taxes, so what? as you said yourself, you can argue that they are well spent, and you yourself say that it might actually be, so like... is like... even yourself don't even seem to convinced of if it actually is so bad, like maybe? maybe not? taxes can be well spent and noone here seems to be arguing about if they really are well or bad spent so I think is better to just not mention it at all. 4:00 social mobility, and how is it on the rest of the world? because if I had to guess I would guess it is even worse, dunno man, but if in some countries you can move in 3 or 4 generations that's huge, because I don't really see it happen ever anywhere for anyone... 5:15 is only the biggest company, only on some countries, and is not even like that bad, like I believe that doesn't really say if they use fossil fuels or other types of energies, like I guess most do use fossil but what I say is that that doesn't seem to give information on that, and again only the biggest company and in some countries, it just seems like such cherry pick, I don't really think it means anything important. 7:00 I don't know what exactly is this map supposedly showing, but... climate change should not be measured by "risk", it doesn't even make sense to me, like only in that specific part of the world you are going to have trouble? what? if the planet goes to shet the entire planet is going down, not a select part, if something had to be measured it would have to be how much is it "fking things up", which maybe is what the map is saying? I don't know, is weird to me 8:00 this one is one of the stupidest, this one is kinda tided with one a bit later that I will comment later, which is also a littl- SUPER stupid, anyway, yeah this is stupid, this isn't even about the government/s and politics, is literally the people, you want A/C? then you FKING INSTALL IT! is the people the ones that chose if they want it or not, this is so so dumb 9:15 again irrelevant to everything, people in the entire planet were stupid in the past, and many still are, people did stupid in the past, do in the present, and will do in the future, and the truth is that slowly there is less war happening and more peace in the entire planet, Europe is decently better NOW, I don't think the past matters, again, the entire planet has the same exact problem, like do you seriously think I don't know that Germany is going to invade France tomorrow? seriously is that a real worry you have? 10:50 I don't really think this is too relevant either, and if anything it proves that people want to be here rather than down there 12:53 and 14:00 again I don't really see it relevant, like if anything the only thing that you can say this is saying is that "hey Europe is cool we want Europe and we want it to stay like existing, so we have to try to make people be born here and not elsewhere because they other places are not cool like Europe" which again, if anything, just says how cool Europe is, people have less children? also again, that's not decision of the government, you decide if you want children and that's just what the Europeans decide, not to have, I think it's clear how stupid this point is 15:00 this one, this one is the one that made me have to make this comment, and the one I was talking about earlier, ARE YOU LITERALLY reading it WRONG??!! ah I ah just... we literally HAVE LESS, READ! I can't believe it, it is literally the opposite, we have LESS than in the rest of the world, use your EYES! 16:17 I traveled a fair amount on Spain, that is only the "high speed specific kind" not at all the entirety of travel, there is WAAAY more, trains bus and other ways of travel, and I don't know, it seems decent to me, you can also fly if you want speed, dunno, there are ways, I really don't see it being bad, and I would also like to know how it compares to the rest of the world. 17:45 and this is where you convince me, you are totally right on this, I don't think anyone can disagree on this

It's still crazy to me people don't realise you're also a Minecraft youtuber

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

For years I thought he was joking about this being his second channel. Until I found out that he actually has another channel with more subscribers.

That tax graph is misleading as it does not mention the start range of income from where every additional Euro is taxed at this rate. So it does not have any useful value. Much more value would be a map showing how much tax you have on average when making 50,000 100,000 and 500,000 a year.

17:00 We are working on this to be fair, with TEN-T. Should be done by 2050 you prolly will still be alive by then. The core part is planned for 2030. Add 10 years to those prolly but still

As an American, you've probably taught me pretty much everything I know about Europe. I'll just take your word for it

@Gil-games

8 ай бұрын

If you learn from this, you will get misguided very fast

@michielvanderzee457

8 ай бұрын

Don't.

Loved the thumb nail and the words no AC Hmm yeah , europe lies on the same latitude as canada and alaska . average temperature in the summer is 25 degrees celsius a heat wave is considerd a temperatuur of more than 25 degrees and over 3 days . So yeah AC realy help full for a continent where most countries are a sea climate .

@Matthew_Ssali

8 ай бұрын

WESTERN EUROPE IS WARMER BECAUSE OF THE GULF STREAM.EASTERN EUROPE HAS SIMILAR WEATHER TO CANADA/ALASKA.

@marcusfranconium3392

8 ай бұрын

@@Matthew_Ssali One big DIFFERENCE . North western europe has high winds and humidity with windchill factors that are colder than the temperatures of alaska . In the summer a windchill factor of -5 degrees celcius is measured when its 13 degrees ,light rain and high winds. 80% of europe is /has a coastal climate. period . eastern europe for us is east of poland hungary slovakia bulgaria romania and greece .

At the time Germany wasn't united the migration was very easy compared to modern times

SAP is a software company, arguably bigger than Nokia lol But yeah I see your point

@arnodobler1096

8 ай бұрын

He is a cherry picker i think

I know that ONLY in the USA and China have what is termed "big tech".But It would be good if you looked at purely 21st-century emerging tech e.g. AI start-ups, digitisation, cyber and robotics, to see whether Europe is going to be utilising advancement in the future, because there are several sources which indicate that many European countries are actually emerging quite well in these sectors, e.g.: Denmark, UK are in the top 5 in the world's, behind USA and China and South Korea.

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

YOu are kind, I imagine and trying to be nice. But... you reak of 'murica,with that paragraph, still.

@arnodobler1096

8 ай бұрын

He also ignored SAP

@Rowlph8888

8 ай бұрын

I'm not pro US, I genuinely want to find out if "big tech" trumps the individual future innovation categories I mentioned. My purpose is to ascertain if Western Europe is in as much trouble as some sources claim, as I live there and want to know what futture Ive got And it seems that economies of Europe are somewhat interdependent in their fortunes. *Several cross-referenced Google sources, each 1 from different countries, evaluating 21st-century tech, both private and public (especially the Publicly funded defence industry). *I'm talking digitisation, cyber, Ai and robotics.All of these combined, the Top 2 countries are USA, followed by China and if you take the defence industry out, South Korea's is next, if you include defence, then UK is next And South Korea drops to about 6. If youInclude defence then Both France and Germany are 5th and 6th respectively, but Germany only because of robotics.Without robotics Germany is not even in the top 10 on the 21st-century tech *Denmark again slides in at 3rd Just abov South Korea (4th) and UK (5th),If you ignore the defence industry

SAP in Germany is a software logistics company

Give me trains or give me death!

I don't really get people who gripe about the high tax rates. In other, lower-tax rate countries, people end up paying pretty much the same anyways. They just pay for their services directly. Healthcare, education, infrastructure, security, environmental protection, etc. cost money. You can either pay it collectively through taxes, or individually as insurance payments or direct payments, but you still pay. Unless of course you want to live in a society without those services, in which case you can move to Somalia and not pay your taxes.

I really wonder about the AC one. I have never seen a residential home with AC in Denmark. Maybe the really rich houses and hotels. But not anywhere els. Yeah we have some Heatpumps, if that counts as AC? But that's a efficiente thing, where it can be cheaper then central heating.

@svr5423

8 ай бұрын

A heatpump is a necessary part of an AC, as you need to pump the heat out of the apartment. You can also use a heatpump to pump heat from outside into the apartment in case you want it warmer (e.g. in winter). Older houses tend to have bad insulation, so they could cool down at night and it wouldn't be so bad during the day (downside: you actually need to heat them in winter). Hence it's mostly modern housing that has and needs AC. With global warming and the change to home office during the pandemic, at least here in Switzerland most of my colleagues bought an AC.

@peterharridge8565

8 ай бұрын

AC is amusing becuase had a chat with a Canadian in Florida, he said he sets his AC to 14C in the night (in Canada) whereas a Woman in Inverness (Scotland) was on the radio to say she puts her heating to 21C in the night (in Winter). And wondered why she had high heating bills. So can we agree you don't need to be as cold as 14C in the night nor as high as 21C in the night to be comfortable. The answer is too hot just have a sheet , too cold put a warm duvet on. I have 3 coverings at night, a sheet if it is over 22C (rarely I guess as in northern England), 17-22C a summer duvet, less than 17C (as low as 13.5C but normally no lower without heating) a warmer Duvet. Am I ever too hot, no. Am I ever too cold, no. No heating or AC required. But my preferred temps at nights is 25C, which I did have in India or Florida. I had AC in both cases, but didn't put it on. In Florida I could open the window if required (with screen) but in one Indian Hotel no window. So actually finally I did succumb to the AC set at 25C, as found my issues were dehydration which worsened at night as was 29C in room. This stopped my nausea. My issues were always to do with no windows in rooms. Of course there is insects that's why. In UK are there insects? Not many. None that bite.

@YujiUedaFan

7 ай бұрын

@@peterharridge8565 21C is seriously low for summer though. Where I live it can get to 31C at night, yet AC is still seen as a luxury few can afford. For the record, 21C is about average for mid autumn temps here during the day indoors.

It's not a big deal if the numbers are true, which they aren't. Also, I've seen huge amounts of legal immigrants even in Eastern Europe, there's no way it's hard to get in legally. If they can't get in legally then perhaps even 100k a year is way too many of them.

@livedandletdie

8 ай бұрын

There's always legal ways to immigrate into Europe, 99% of non-Europeans in Europe that migrated here didn't legally immigrate, and should be offed. Heck everyone south of Czechia might as well be offed as well, because that's where all the lazy south Europeans live as well, and don't get me wrong, the situation in Europe is solely due to dumb reasoning by North Europeans who think all human life is important, they're clearly wrong, on at least 15 different aspects, philosophically is just one, culturally is another, justice is another, history yet another, I can go on. But I'll spare you the read. Let me just say thank you to the Poles in the 1400s for repelling the Turks.

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

@@livedandletdie OK, you need to take one or a few steps back and begin from the start. You lost a lot of audience, very fast, with every word.

the top rate in austria is 45 not 55% + its not for the whole income, its just every extra earned euro. for 11k for example u don't pay any tax, for the next 15k or so u pay 18% and so on... so the average is much lower

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

THe world is familiar with progessive tax brackets; Thank you.

@Valentin-oc5nh

8 ай бұрын

@@luxuryvagrant6496 the creator of the video apparently is not since he seems to think that top earners here pay 45% in income tax

@luxuryvagrant6496

8 ай бұрын

@@Valentin-oc5nh Let's put that down to "second channel, don't care, goodbye".

ASML is Dutch ... what is more high tech?

dutch asml is really big so saying tech doesn't exist is not complete true

He doesn't know what SAP is. One of the biggest tech companies IN THE WORLD!

3:32 in china 4000 km new high way every year

I mean, Europe has the best cars in the world, surely that counts as some sort of tech, they have CPUs in them now.

That is not how marginal tax work. Paying 55% in marginal tax does not mean that you pay over half of your income in taxes.