Re: Fatal incident in Paris

On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:46:22 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:

On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 09:40:08 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 20:32:22 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:
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On Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:47:36 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
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On Mon Oct 21 17:03:08 2024 Shadow  wrote:

 
Ah, that explains it. Slocomb I mean.
 
Still not what the government does with people that are unable
to work.
PS I also read that although Thailand claims it has a 1%
unemployment rate, it considers people living at home in the rural
districts as "fully employed". And those are almost 50% of the
population. If they don't pay taxes and have no benefits from the
government at all, and live on a sub-minimum wage, I'd call them
"unemployed". But statistics accept anything...

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Living at home in a rural area :-)
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Well using one family that I know well, they have some 8,000 sq meters
of farm land, that's about 2.4 acres - or 1 hectare, and they raise
sufficient rice to feed their family - about 6 or 8 people - and have
some left over to sell. In addition they raise the vegetables that
they will eat and may even own a buffalo for the heavy work.
In short they are self sufficient as far as living goes and some left
over to spend.
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During the "off" season, between rice planting and harvesting the
husband and wife come to "the big city" to work and are careful to
find work as casual labor - the wife is my Housekeeper - where taxes
are not collected.
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OH! I just asked my Housekeeper about taxes and she assured me that
they do pay taxes on the home place - 1 year - 65 Baht, a bit less
then US$2.00.
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As for government serves they, like all other Thai citizens, have
totally free medical services. My Housekeeper told me that for 8
monthly visits to the doctor and 3 days in the hospital giving birth
was totally free.
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Are they "unemployed" ?

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No, they work and pay taxes so they are employed. There must
be a lot of rural workers that do not own the land they live on and
survive unregistered as "slave labor". Would they have the right to
free medical service?

One thing you are missing (I think). In Thailand people still have
"families" so yes YOU may not have any property so you will likely
live with another member of your "family".

To use my Housekeeper for an example, yes she and her husband and two
kids "live in the city" while owning land "up country" on which reside
her grandfather and some other family members  and they send him money
and once or twice he's been sick and they "downed tools" here and
"went home" until he was better.

All citizens of Thailand are entitled to totally free medical
service/treatment.

PS In Brazil EVERYONE has free medical service, even tourists
and unlawful extraterrestrials. It's in our Constitution.
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Cheers,

John B.