Avid Amoeba

Pretty accurate representation of the average finfluencer.

If history is any guide, it seems Israel is steadily moving to the right in order to support the status quo. If this trend continues, especially in light of having to live with having killed tens of thousands of people, there will be significant repression of dissenting voices, Israeli Arab and Israeli Jew. It’s difficult to believe that the level of dehumanization needed to accept what they did in Gaza would just dissipate into thin air after the last shot is fired. I think more likely it would continue its life in the form of repression against the Israeli Arab minority and when they’re repressed enough, against non-true-Jews, i.e. lefties and other non-cobformant minorities. I don’t think that would lead to a prosperous, democratic state.

He’s not an idiot. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

So this was the price of the Ukrainian aid. 🫢

The Hunger Games.

Remember #DeadRaccoonTO

I bet the CCP is going to make the homeowners whole at a minimum to avoid the risk of social instability.

If you stop thinking about the metadata (the financial part) of the system and instead you look at the real system in terms of resources available for ensuring a decent standard of living, you might possibly find that the working population can farm, manufacture and service its own and it’s retired population’s needs. China could make the reforms needed to adjust the meta to fit the real system that supports this standard of living. It might for example remove failed markets from parts of the economy such as retirement savings, replacing them with universal pensions. Of course this isn’t unique to China, but such reforms depend on how firmly a nation has bought into the neoliberal ideology. My point is that in general, the financial part of the system never matches the real. There’s always discrepancies (e.g. positive and negative externalities to name some) large or small. It’s a model. It seems to me that we often make the mistake to consider just the model and drive real decisions and predictions based on it even when it drastically diverges from reality, sometimes with horrific consequences. E.g. the model says increasing extraction of fossil fuels is fine when we have scientific proof it isn’t.

And with what weapons?

For one, on its abysmal failure that allowed Oct 7 to occur.

And generally you have to come up with the money to build it yourself or from the private sector, for a venture that won’t be making much money itself. And then say you somehow manage to build the vertical, in our loosely regulated free market economy, this vertical is likely to have monopolistic power over the market, which is bad for people in the system, apart from the ones participating in the vertical.

I’m not advocating that our loosely regulated free market economy is good BTW. I’m simply trying to state its implications on vertical integration and vice versa. Vertical integration is clearly more efficient than the alternative, but free market economies allow it to create harmful effects.

For the sake of argument, picture BYD getting much larger subsidies that allows it to sell EVs for half the price of anything European autos can sustainably produce. As a result Europeans overwhelmingly buy BYD over European EVs. Given that EVs are mandated to be the vast majority of cars sold in the near future, that’s Europeans buying very few European cars. Picture this persisting over long enough period to exhaust any savings European autos have. Such an event would result in a significant devaluation of European autos as well as outright bankruptcies. Followed by many thousands of Europeans losing well paying union jobs. Followed by BYD scooping up European autos brands and assets. If you see the downsides for Europe in this picture, perhaps you’d see why you or the EC might care differently about European autos subsidies versus Chinese ones. Perhaps this makes it make sense.

This all sounds like lower profits. Can’t have that.

I think he’s referring to the Tories’ ability to make money disappear into private pockets. In this case removing it from Brits pockets and not making it to the oppressed and needy either. Rather than helping the needy and oppressed is bad for Brits.

Is he stepping down or something?

This is so fucking annoying… and so irresponsible given how many people’s futures are at stake, let alone the rest of the world that is affected by it in a number of ways.

Lots of premature dooming and the article loosely acknowledges that. At the same time there’s plenty the CPC can do to improve the status quo for young people, and all people really. I don’t know of they’d have the wisdom to do that.

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Providing universal childcare and pensions, or creating a welfare state in general might help with these issues and some others. Unfortunately Xi doesn’t have a positive view of welfare AFAIK.

Glad to see Tusk cleaning house instead of tiptoeing around the shit left from the previous administration, unlike some other prominent countries.