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Is there any place on the entire planet that _hasn't_ become more authoritarian in the past, say, 5 years?
by Kenji 4y ago
Is there any place on the entire planet that _hasn't_ become more authoritarian in the past, say, 5 years?
- atemerev 4y agoEverything’s fine here in Switzerland so far.
- IYasha 4y agoCan I move there? (not rich :) )
- infthi 4y agoYou have to find a company that would convince the authorities that they have been looking for qualified workforce on the Swiss/EU market and were not been able to find anyone suitable in 6 months thus you deserve a visa. Google still has some open positions in Zürich!
- dylan604 4y agomeh, just keep your existing remote WFH job, but have your home be in Zürich. You might need to work some offset hours to keep your meetings. Now, you're just on a tourist visa. Check it out for however long your tourist visa allows, and then if you don't actually like, it's a lot easier to leave. One step closer to being a digital nomad
- IYasha 4y ago> Google still has some open positions > Google Um... no, thanks ) > meh, just keep your existing remote WFH job I'm currently ~1k eur/month (altough remote), and I doubt that's a survivable amount for .ch. And a tourist visa is kinda not something could save my life now. If available, at all.
- scandox 4y agoWell yiz only gave women the vote in 1971...so the reactionary backlash hasn't yet had time to work itself out.
- atemerev 4y agoNot exactly; in 1971, it was for one last standing half-canton. On federal level and for most other cantons, women were allowed to vote long ago. Sadly, women rights are a recent development in many recent countries. In Spain in 1975, women weren’t allowed to open their own bank accounts, for example. There are many other sad historical examples, and modern examples too :(
- anthk 4y ago>In Spain in 1975, women weren’t allowed to open their own bank accounts, for example. Well, guess why.
- jeromegv 4y agoExcept the country spend a lot of energy trying to defend Russian oligarchs in their banking systems and preventing Ukraine from getting supplies. A « neutrality » that somehow seems to fall a lot on the side of Russia.
- Kenji 4y ago[dead]
- pr337h4m 4y agoYou could make a pretty good argument for Saudi Arabia.
- throwaway6734 4y agoThe place that hacked a journalist into pieces?
- renewiltord 4y agoYeah, but have they hacked a journalist to pieces lately. No, but seriously, they have become more open in recent years, the most visible change of which is that women can drive.
- throwaway6734 4y agoit happened in october 2018 and was ordered by the current de facto ruler
- mnd999 4y agoFrom a very low base maybe
- bikezen 4y agoChile is currently in the process of rewriting its constitution to ensure civil liberties, indigenous rights, and so on. They recently legalized same-sex marriage etc.
- npc12345 4y ago[dead]