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The reason why they don't amount to anything is because there is usually no follow-up and accountability. In China,after such an announcement ,a CCP official(wh
by MaxPock 1y ago
The reason why they don't amount to anything is because there is usually no follow-up and accountability.
In China,after such an announcement ,a CCP official(whose promotion hinges on successful implementation of the investment)would have been assigned to Apple to see to it that the project is completed
- bamboozled 1y agoBecause it’s an authoritarian dictatorship that forces people to do things to achieve its goals ?
- mbs159 1y agoThem being forced to do things due to the dictatorship is not a compelling argument, as people are forced to do things in Western societies too, via other external factors like risk of poverty and hunger.
- ulfw 1y agoWhat does this have to do with Apple or manufacturing investment pledges? Who is going hungry?
- darthoctopus 1y agothat is the point --- precisely because the usual mechanisms of enforcement do not apply, there will be no accountability for Apple.
- analognoise 1y agoAbout 17.9% of households with kids under 18: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...
- ulfw 1y agoAnd that is because of Apple Inc.?
- tekno45 1y agodidn't our president say they'd be a dictator on day one?
- bamboozled 1y agoYup, and all this needing to appease behavior is part of the shtick
- Buttons840 1y agoHe doesn't pay enough attention to see past the headline though.
- rayiner 1y agogrep -C 5 “I’ll be a dictator on day one.”
- estearum 1y agoFor anyone curious, the context here is that he said he'd be a dictator only on day one. First, even one day of dictatorship is in direct violation of the Constitution. Second, we're coming up on day 200 and the Trump administration continues to assert an expansive view of executive power far beyond any historical precedent and to degrade the systems designed to check that power, following a 100% run of the mill authoritarian playbook.
- rayiner 1y ago> For anyone curious, the context here is that he said he'd be a dictator only on day one. Still not correct.
- felixgallo 1y agohttps://youtu.be/dQkrWL7YuGk?t=26 https://youtu.be/dQkrWL7YuGk?t=26
- mayama 1y ago> Because it’s an authoritarian dictatorship that forces people to do things to achieve its goals ? That's just part of the puzzle. What makes CPC different from most dictatorships is like NK or SU is that most of ruling elite of CPC is made up of engineers. Along with mandatory CPC ideology leaning, they also have notion that a developed nation is one that builds things. Bankers and Lawyers are ranked way down on power rankings. On the other hand, most of American ruling elite are lawyers or bankers. So their worldview is mostly rule lawyering, interest earning, hedge fund etc.. Power brokers in these fields make the rules. Builders and engineers rank pretty low in power totem pole.
- sswezey 1y agoDo you have more information about this engineering culture of CPC?
- MaxPock 1y agohttps://archive.md/DrquB https://archive.md/DrquB
- benterix 1y agoLooking at the chart it seems like it's a relatively new phenomenon though.
- rayiner 1y agoAccording to the chart it started under Deng, and that’s also around when China’s current phase of development started. We forget these days that Chinese communism was a tire fire for the first half century. In 1990 China had the same per capita GDP (PPP) as India. Now China is 4x India.
- FranzFerdiNaN 1y agoIt’s an authoritarian president that forces Apple to make these promises, even though they will most likely never fulfil them. It’s all just one big play to appease to Trumps love for big numbers.
- MaxPock 1y agoproject management and accountability are communist ideals .
- pjc50 1y agoWell, yes, because it's a "state capitalism" hybrid regime. If your position is that US companies should have a shadow board member who gets to dictate company policy over the wishes of and at the expense of investors, people might reasonably call that .. communism.
- presentation 1y agoCommunism is a more specific term than that
- benterix 1y agoThey may call it that, but to be precise it would be just an aspect of a planned economy[0]. NB democracies use a similar mechanism but only via companies where the state has the majority of shares which is completely different. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy
- Eddy_Viscosity2 1y ago> have a shadow board member who gets to dictate company policy This will happen sooner than you think if the US continues on its current path. Already Trump is asking for something similar for universities. He can use the same hammer for companies as well; deny them all government funding/contracts until they 'voluntarily' give in. The 'c' word for this is not communism, but corruption. The special thing about corruption is that it can happen in any political 'ism'.
- rayiner 1y agoGoing after universities using government contracts as leverage was literally on Trump’s platform: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform. People voted the guy who promised to do that to be CEO of the branch of government that manages government contracts. I don’t even know what to call someone who thinks the government should give private parties discretionary grants and contracts, but shouldn’t be able to use those to influence private actors. I’d call it libertarianism, but the principled libertarian would say we should abolish all funding to private universities.
- teamweightloss 1y ago[flagged]