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Because it’s an authoritarian dictatorship that forces people to do things to achieve its goals ?
by bamboozled 1y ago
Because 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 .