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Mike2220 t1_j2fb4cq wrote

Reply to ELI5: Why do companies require annual budget be spent 100%? by angrybird7677

If a budget isn't spent, in a lot of cases it will be allocated elsewhere, so to maintain the budget, it all has to be spent.

ELI5 - If you're working on a craft as a group and the teacher gives you 10 glue sticks, they might notice you only needed to use like 3, and give you less next time because they realize they have you too much, and they can give it to another group that needs more glue. If you want to keep all the glue, the one way to show you needed all that glue is to use all the glue.

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KoastPhire t1_j2f9vs6 wrote

Reply to comment by Crepuscular_Oreo in ELI5: Tech billionaires lost $400 billion this year. Where does it go? Does anyone gain? by ChickenEnthusiast

>You also have $200 million in liabilities, so at this point your net worth has not increased.

It's not about the networth if you read what I typed. It's about having these assets without paying taxes first.

>The good news is that a lot of construction workers, boat builders, and airplane builders have jobs.

So your logic is that they get a pass because $20M of the $200M goes to the worker? Or did you assume the workers get $200M of the spending? Did you factor that the workers for yatchs and planes aren't in the US?

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Animastar t1_j2f9uyy wrote

Reply to Eli5 why do we as humans, globally, accept to pay a different price for the exact same product just somewhere else on the globe? by [deleted]

Because every step of producing something costs money, and the final product needs to sell at a price that covers the cost of all those steps in order to make a profit. Importing costs money, so that's why the price goes up, and we accept this, because companies simply won't import the products in the first place if they can't profit off of it.

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KickdownSquad t1_j2f9kr9 wrote

Reply to eli5 Christian vs Catholic? by shad0w_qween

Catholics are the original Christians… All other groups broke off from it. ✝️

Catholics are the largest group of Christians with over 1 Billion people and most of the European countries. 🧬

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r3dl3g t1_j2f8xu5 wrote

Reply to comment by NotKanz in eli5 Christian vs Catholic? by shad0w_qween

>but would I be incorrect saying Catholicism was the first Christ based religion?

Absolutely.

The first Christians faiths were the original cults that sprang up in the wake of Christ's death circa 30ish AD.

Those cults then spread across the Eastern Mediterranean and started forming their own religions, and were only broadly unified into a single church a few hundred years later by the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which is broadly considered the origin of the original Christian "Church" as accepted by Roman Catholicism, the various Orthodox Churches, the Assyrian Church, and the Anglicans, and (as a result) by Protestantism further down the line.

The Catholic Church as it exists today was only really formed 700 years later, when the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches split from each other in the Great Schism. But even prior to the Schism there were tons of variant churches all following the Nicene Creed; the only reason the pre-schism Catholic Church was so large was because of it's relationship with the Roman Empire.

Honestly; if you're looking for the faiths closest to OG Christianity, that would be either the Coptic, Oriental Orthodox, or Assyrian Churches.

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