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The war ended in 1974. That was 44 years ago. You're either talking about people who are of retirement age, or have no adult ties to the country. This is callo
by dbt00 8y ago
The war ended in 1974. That was 44 years ago. You're either talking about people who are of retirement age, or have no adult ties to the country.
This is callous and gross. It's going to ruin lives. People are going to commit suicide rather than leave.
- shard972 8y agoWell retirement age should be even better, they can bring their capital with them, that should give Vietnam a good boost to their GDP. Well automation will lead to some suicides no? It already has lead to many farmers (Some I knew personally) taking their own lives but it's ok because it leads to economic growth which benefits us all. I don't think just because someone will commit suicide, doesn't mean the whole thing is bad and gross.
- happytoexplain 8y agoI don't think the parent comment was implying that any policy or action (no matter how broad) that causes (no matter how indirectly) people to commit suicide (no matter how few) is in-arguably bad and gross. I think the parent was pointing that out as one relevant point among multiple. The overall picture, taken rationally and as a whole, to me personally seems like one where the cons outweigh the pros, as opposed to the entire generic concept of the history of automation, which contains many individual cases where things may have been handled well or poorly, and is therefore too broad to compare to a single act of policy like this. To me, this looks like something that could have had some reasonable incarnation, but as it stands, it appears to be an unthoughtful, unnecessary act driven by hatred.