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Uh oh, high food prices generally correlate with increase in civil unrest and political turmoil, especially in areas where a significant percentage of income go

by fsloth 5y ago

Uh oh, high food prices generally correlate with increase in civil unrest and political turmoil, especially in areas where a significant percentage of income goes to buying food.

cute_boi 5y ago
To be honest things are looking too bleak at the moment. Life is already hard when we consider everything is based on rent seeking culture and huge relative taxes to poor people. To add more I guess too many people aren't motivated to do laborious job when they can easily earn money by learning some html/css in computer for 1 years. My friend who is completed bachelor in physics is now doing computer jobs here. I think we need some economic reform otherwise it is going to be harsh. Just printing money as much as we want is not a solution. Update: Grammar
- prawn 5y ago
  Could it be more cost of living and less huge taxes? Income tax in Australia is nothing up to AU$18,200, but house pricing is remarkably high. I think it will all come to a head soon enough, and housing affordability is just about the first thing I'd be tackling.
  - rcpt 5y ago
    Taxing income, instead of land, is already rent seeking
  - BuddyE 5y ago
    What about the most regressive tax scheme there, VAT, and sales tax in the US?
- fsloth 5y ago
  It sounds you are generally venting when the specific topic was price of food. I don't understand what labour shortage of frontend developers has to do with that.
rohitb91 5y ago
West has become hyper selfish and unaware of their shutdowns in spending and travelling and not redistributing vaccines vs vaccinating kids and getting third shots in. People scared to go out with 10 cases on per cent of the 100k while third world countries have essentially 0 vaccinated.
- fastball 5y ago
  The "West" has donated 100s of millions of vaccine doses to other countries. The US alone has donated 176M doses. Hardly my definition of "hyper selfish".
  - donw 5y ago
    Are you sure about "donated"? My understanding is that Israel paid well above market to go to the front of the line, Japan is definitely paying for doses... do you have links to authoritative primary sources on this (e.g., not a news organization or activist group)? (I don't know, so I'm actually curious here)
    - fastball 5y ago
      https://www.gavi.org/covax-facility https://www.gavi.org/covax-facility https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/ https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/
    - Thorrez 5y ago
      Rich countries (e.g. US, Israel, Japan) paid extra to get doses first, then once they had enough, the US (and probably other countries) paid for doses for poorer countries. https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/ https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/ E.g. (first alphabetically (Africa > Angola)): https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/angola/ https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/angola/ >The United States continues to make great strides in its efforts to distribute safe and effective vaccines globally. We are happy to announce our donation of 1,182,870 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Angola on August 24 with our partners GAVI and the African Union.
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by fsloth 5y ago

Uh oh, high food prices generally correlate with increase in civil unrest and political turmoil, especially in areas where a significant percentage of income goes to buying food.

cute_boi 5y ago

To be honest things are looking too bleak at the moment. Life is already hard when we consider everything is based on rent seeking culture and huge relative taxes to poor people. To add more I guess too many people aren't motivated to do laborious job when they can easily earn money by learning some html/css in computer for 1 years. My friend who is completed bachelor in physics is now doing computer jobs here. I think we need some economic reform otherwise it is going to be harsh. Just printing money as much as we want is not a solution. Update: Grammar

prawn 5y ago
Could it be more cost of living and less huge taxes? Income tax in Australia is nothing up to AU$18,200, but house pricing is remarkably high. I think it will all come to a head soon enough, and housing affordability is just about the first thing I'd be tackling.
- rcpt 5y ago
  Taxing income, instead of land, is already rent seeking
- BuddyE 5y ago
  What about the most regressive tax scheme there, VAT, and sales tax in the US?
fsloth 5y ago
It sounds you are generally venting when the specific topic was price of food. I don't understand what labour shortage of frontend developers has to do with that.

rohitb91 5y ago

West has become hyper selfish and unaware of their shutdowns in spending and travelling and not redistributing vaccines vs vaccinating kids and getting third shots in. People scared to go out with 10 cases on per cent of the 100k while third world countries have essentially 0 vaccinated.

fastball 5y ago
The "West" has donated 100s of millions of vaccine doses to other countries. The US alone has donated 176M doses. Hardly my definition of "hyper selfish".
- donw 5y ago
  Are you sure about "donated"? My understanding is that Israel paid well above market to go to the front of the line, Japan is definitely paying for doses... do you have links to authoritative primary sources on this (e.g., not a news organization or activist group)? (I don't know, so I'm actually curious here)
  - fastball 5y ago
    https://www.gavi.org/covax-facility https://www.gavi.org/covax-facility https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/ https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/
  - Thorrez 5y ago
    Rich countries (e.g. US, Israel, Japan) paid extra to get doses first, then once they had enough, the US (and probably other countries) paid for doses for poorer countries. https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/ https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/ E.g. (first alphabetically (Africa > Angola)): https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/angola/ https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/angola/ >The United States continues to make great strides in its efforts to distribute safe and effective vaccines globally. We are happy to announce our donation of 1,182,870 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Angola on August 24 with our partners GAVI and the African Union.

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