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I don't drink, gamble, pay for prostitutes, or anything else Vegas related.
I'm here for the lack of rain and opportunity.
I like Vegas quite a bit. I'm only considering moving to LA because I work outside and this heat is harsh. When it's 115 outside and you're standing over a 180 degree engine bay it's rough. I can't drink enough water to stay hydrated. I do 2 gallons a day in the summer.
Also, there's 2-3 million people in Vegas and 10~ million in the LA area. A lot bigger pool of potential customers. Also a lot more money. People drive 150-300k cars here. They drive 1-3 million dollar cars in LA.
I know quite a few locals who do gamble and they either rent or live with family. And they live paycheck to paycheck obviously. I know some professional people with health insurance and pensions who gamble too and have families.
1 in 4 locals in Vegas supposedly gamble every week.
It's not just a tourist thing.
People believe what they want to believe. It makes it easier not to think.
All of us work for the casinos, are strippers or adult entertainers or are pro poker players.
More than 80% of the country is living paycheck-to-paycheck. Salaries have not kept up with inflation for at least 30 years.
Nobody has any money left. The risk-takers gamble because what else can they do to get ahead? There is no getting ahead. The risk-takers just get knocked out faster unless they get lucky.
Yeah, I hear you, well there are a lot of business opportunities in California even though I hate the state, I have investments in CA that have been quite great and if there's money to be made, I'm not going to begrudge making it no matter where it is, but I'd rather not live there. I can understand the working outside angle, though, I mean yikes... it is HOT in the summer for anything but swimming or indoor AC. Can't say I blame you there. I also don't drink or gamble, though, so for me it's also the lack of rain, no income taxes, entertainment, and affordable cost of living.
If you can make enough money in L.A., and it's dependent on living there, I mean it makes sense but my version of "enough money" would be astronomical. I just don't presently make enough money to live the kind of lifestyle that I'd want in that city because of their exorbitant housing prices, and the terrible traffic is something that saps your lifeblood after a while. I've never lived in a city with good traffic, both Portland and L.A. make the top 10 worst traffic cities, and it makes you want to go absolutely nowhere because it's just never worth it. At least in Vegas, the entertainment is so great that if traffic got worse, it will often still be worth it. Going to a crowded beach in SoCal with nowhere to sit and kind of trash and bums everywhere, eh, even with no traffic it wouldn't be that appealing.
There are a lot of "business opportunities" in Cali because all the smart money is leaving over the high taxes and ridiculous regulation.
There are a lot of "business opportunities" in Cali because all the smart money is leaving over the high taxes and ridiculous regulation.
Yeah, I would never want to be in that state again. My business is still based there and I have to deal with their nonsense sadly, but at least it’s just the business and not me too. They make it so difficult to be a small business owner and I’m not sure how they don’t get this? There are tons of “compliance” thing where their heart may be in the right place, but you can’t expect businesses with 1-5 employees to have the time or resources to deal with insane regulations. So you end up just killing the little guys and that benefits the biggest corporations but makes their stranglehold on the market even more severe. Open competition and minimal regulation is the key to a well functioning economy. A lot of people think “capitalism has failed me,” but in most cases what they’re talking about is a very regulated form of capitalism where they’ve made it so difficult to run your own business fully legally unless you’re an expert on your business, on law, and on accounting all together because who can afford $400/hour attorney bills and thousands in accounting bills regularly when they’re just starting up?
Yeah, I would never want to be in that state again. My business is still based there and I have to deal with their nonsense sadly, but at least it’s just the business and not me too. They make it so difficult to be a small business owner and I’m not sure how they don’t get this? There are tons of “compliance” thing where their heart may be in the right place, but you can’t expect businesses with 1-5 employees to have the time or resources to deal with insane regulations. So you end up just killing the little guys and that benefits the biggest corporations but makes their stranglehold on the market even more severe. Open competition and minimal regulation is the key to a well functioning economy. A lot of people think “capitalism has failed me,” but in most cases what they’re talking about is a very regulated form of capitalism where they’ve made it so difficult to run your own business fully legally unless you’re an expert on your business, on law, and on accounting all together because who can afford $400/hour attorney bills and thousands in accounting bills regularly when they’re just starting up?
I'm with you there. All this proposition 65 crap makes me want to not sell at all in Cali anymore but sadly, many of the online venues won't let you pick that for an option. You get asked a lot of "stupid" questions about the production content of sales items. How they hell is the reseller supposed to know what the manufacturer did when making the product?
On the outset, it kinda sounds reasonable, but once you understand that the manufacturers don't even divulge this information most of the time, you realize that its completely unreasonable.
I don't know of any other states where the state requires you to know what Ford or Chevy did when manufacturing the car you're selling. On the front it kinda sounds good like "sellers should know what they're selling" but how the hell can you possibly know when nobody is disclosing that information to you.
I think most merchants do some due diligence in procuring products... if they know their product is toxic or something they won't sell it. Cali is asking the merchants to go all the way back to China and find out everything they did when making a product before posting it for sale. Frankly, this information is not even available. Good luck getting someone in China to tell you what that is.
By Cali's current standards, nobody could possibly sell anything, because everything had some toxic ingredient included in its production. They're just so far off from reality sometimes its unreal. By Cali standards pretty much literally everything causes cancer and needs to be disclosed. Not sure what a reseller can really do about that. That's all that's available.
I'm with you there. All this proposition 65 crap makes me want to not sell at all in Cali anymore but sadly, many of the online venues won't let you pick that for an option. You get asked a lot of "stupid" questions about the production content of sales items. How they hell is the reseller supposed to know what the manufacturer did when making the product?
On the outset, it kinda sounds reasonable, but once you understand that the manufacturers don't even divulge this information most of the time, you realize that its completely unreasonable.
I don't know of any other states where the state requires you to know what Ford or Chevy did when manufacturing the car you're selling. On the front it kinda sounds good like "sellers should know what they're selling" but how the hell can you possibly know when nobody is disclosing that information to you.
I think most merchants do some due diligence in procuring products... if they know their product is toxic or something they won't sell it. Cali is asking the merchants to go all the way back to China and find out everything they did when making a product before posting it for sale. Frankly, this information is not even available. Good luck getting someone in China to tell you what that is.
By Cali's current standards, nobody could possibly sell anything, because everything had some toxic ingredient included in its production. They're just so far off from reality sometimes its unreal. By Cali standards pretty much literally everything causes cancer and needs to be disclosed. Not sure what a reseller can really do about that. That's all that's available.
Yeah we’ve had a similar thing with the City of LA, where they’re the only place I know that tries to charge a company not even based there a gross receipts tax for doing any business inside city limits. It’s not the 1.5% tax that annoys me, I mean I can just tack on a fee to my client frankly, it’s the fact they audited me and harassed me for years insisting I owed them money. I opened my books completely and compiled a list of every shoot done inside California whatsoever so they could independently verify the locations and whether they were in the city. It took me at least 60-70 hours of total work and lost productivity all for them to find in the end I never did above the 3 or 5 days per year of work that would trigger a tax, and they concluded I overpaid them by $8! Lol I just told them keep the change. But what a hassle!
The whole thing made me want to say we just don’t do work at all in the city of LA because it’s such a small part of our business anyway. Almost nothing is “in LA,” it’s all Burbank or West Hollywood or Pasadena. It’s all because I used to live in downtown LA and started the business there that triggered their watchful eyes lol.
More than 80% of the country is living paycheck-to-paycheck. Salaries have not kept up with inflation for at least 30 years.
Nobody has any money left. The risk-takers gamble because what else can they do to get ahead? There is no getting ahead. The risk-takers just get knocked out faster unless they get lucky.
Very true, but only inside Barnes & Noble. In the Fiction aisle.
More than 80% of the country is living paycheck-to-paycheck. Salaries have not kept up with inflation for at least 30 years.
Nobody has any money left. The risk-takers gamble because what else can they do to get ahead? There is no getting ahead. The risk-takers just get knocked out faster unless they get lucky.
I'm in mid 30s, no college debt, own my home, health insurance, have savings, 800 credit score and no major household debt. If people want to get ahead, they can, but you have to be willing to sacrifice. Lot of people don't want to.
Gambling is a horrible thing to try and get ahead. You're better off investing in something.
Yeah we’ve had a similar thing with the City of LA, where they’re the only place I know that tries to charge a company not even based there a gross receipts tax for doing any business inside city limits. It’s not the 1.5% tax that annoys me, I mean I can just tack on a fee to my client frankly, it’s the fact they audited me and harassed me for years insisting I owed them money. I opened my books completely and compiled a list of every shoot done inside California whatsoever so they could independently verify the locations and whether they were in the city. It took me at least 60-70 hours of total work and lost productivity all for them to find in the end I never did above the 3 or 5 days per year of work that would trigger a tax, and they concluded I overpaid them by $8! Lol I just told them keep the change. But what a hassle!
The whole thing made me want to say we just don’t do work at all in the city of LA because it’s such a small part of our business anyway. Almost nothing is “in LA,” it’s all Burbank or West Hollywood or Pasadena. It’s all because I used to live in downtown LA and started the business there that triggered their watchful eyes lol.
Cali is one of the states that wants to collect Sales tax on all sales, regardless of tax nexus or total sales. I've already been contacted and told them where to stick it and to file suit in Nevada if they want my money. Still waiting for service on that one.
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