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Pushing for competitiveness is one thing, but why so devious? Secretly pushing for a more right wing crap. Pisses me right off

• saubeidl 10mo ago
  "Competitiveness" is just a buzzword masquerading right wing demands.
  • inglor_cz 10mo ago
    Have you ever tried to sell any product on a world market? Competitiveness is absolutely a real thing, unless you want to build a local autarky. Was Nokia sunk by right-wing influencers and their buzzwords?
    • saubeidl 10mo ago
      Nokia should have been nationalized. It doesn't need to be a local autarky. It could be something more similar to Comintern.
      • jacquesm 10mo ago
        I'm sympathetic to your arguments but I'm fairly sure that nationalizing Nokia would not have staved off the inevitable, though, selling it to MS certainly accelerated the fall. I still have my trusty N-800 tough, and I expect it will last another decade but that phone was made well after the Nokia brand effectively ceased to exist and is more of a reboot than a successful pivot. Clearly I'm not the 'ideal consumer' but I'm also the exception, I don't know anybody around me except for my 90 year old uncle who still has one of these and even he's been eying a smartphone.
  • ragebol 10mo ago
    Competitiveness at the cost of everything else is right wing. Competitiveness in balance with other interests (like the environment, human rights, ...) is not right wing IMO. No one wants to be noncompetitive.