This is my reflection on my first video post on LinkedIn, where I created an interactive dashboard to explore the different taxes on Udemy.
I don't want this to turn political. I know people don't love to discuss serious stuff, but I have to say it.
In the age of digital and remote, we still behave like there's a single, universal person, world-wide.
Most digital products are sold for the same price, but not the same relative cost.
A real example:
If you're a Swiss student wanting to enroll in a 100€ online course, you would pay 107.7€. Switzerland is a highly developed country and has been the most innovative country in the world (Global Innovation Index) for years now, and has a net salary average of 4.588€.
If you're a Portuguese student, you would pay 123.00€ for the same course.
23% is the tax paid in Portugal, 3 times the Swiss tax.
23%~ is also how much a Portuguese person earns compared to a Swiss one (1.041€ vs 4.588€).
Yes, the costs of living are different, but so is the disposable income and savings.
This is Europe. Increase your scope to be worldwide, and inequality becomes more and more noticeable.
Education is KEY for the development of a country.
Remote work won't solve inequality of opportunity until the costs of a good education are the same, whenever you were born.
Thoughts?
Thanks for dropping another post in the Data Viz community!
I don't necessarily agree that taxing things like online courses will change much of anything. Things like taxes don't end up benefiting the way it's designed, and could go into more depths on that in another discussion.
I do find it interesting that places like Europe are intense on taxes whereas in North America we largely don't seem to have it according to that much. The American education system can't really hold a candle to many things as a whole but on the tax perspective, I think that it's best to have it lowest possible.
You're welcome, did you check the video showing the tool interactivity? I wish I could post video here, but if it's possible, I don't know how to.
I think everyone would win with lower taxes on education to be honest. Many of the worlds problems are due to a lack of education more than anything, from racism to poverty.
Unfortunately, this was problably my last post here on Hive, for the next months to come. Even though I once thought this would be a distributed, and open alternative to post my LinkedIn posts, I haven't been getting the kind of engagement I was expecting, and used to get on Steem, years ago. Maybe I was overly positive.
Good luck!
Ah that’s unfortunate but it takes time and effort to succeed in here, like it does anywhere. There also isn’t a fantastic amount of people interested in data science and visualization. I’m hoping that by me posting these things fairly consistently I should hopefully get a decent thing established and in the future will have a community with some solid numbers to them.
If you post things in the STEM social community it should get some better attention because more people are in there.
But I can’t also stress it enough, I’m order to get traction on here, you can’t post and go away for weeks. You should comment and talk to people so that they see you are trying to be a part of the community instead of just taking rewards. It’s a balance for sure but an important one.