Ray20

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>In regard to exports, Michael Ellman states that the 1932–1933 grain exports amounted to 1.8 million tonnes That is blatant manipulation. Most of those grain de facto didn't left the country and were used to fight famine. From 1930
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>That didn't stop millions of people from dying from hunger as their own food was taken at gunpoint and exported to other countries. The problem was not exactly that, there wasn't food export when there was famine. Communists a
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>when the Trump campaign didn't even float a coherent economic agenda With what their opponents had? They didn't even need one.
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>A far more effective strategy to force them out of Ukraine, would be genuine economic starvation. It doesn't seems like that. The West was pretty intolerant to business connections with Russia, and if instead of 80% cut there was 1
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Lenin wrote, like, 20 billion books and articles about his ideology. And no, you generally doesn't need 20 billion books and articles to get into power and then keep it. Compare him with Stalin, who even read with difficulty, or with P
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>In the 1950s there was Soviet ideology that meant something. Now there is loyalty to Putin. No, there wasn't. Soviet ideology that meant something died under Lenin, and already Stalin in those aspects of loyalty to the Big Man were
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>There is a very big reason why there’s no more large swaths of immigrants from European and some Asian countries flocking into the US. Yeas, and this reason - US visa is one of the hardest to get.
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>I don't think many people realize this but we have like ~46 years of oil left in total. My parents remember reading those in 70's
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>In the long run, society goes to 100% electric transportation due to global warming. This is Western-centrism. In the long run 4 billion people do not go electric because poverty problem solving more important for them, then the global
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>But wealth inequality has still grown quite a bit. This is called stability. The more stable the system - the more value have investments.
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Mostly it is other way around. People, who influence the laws - become reach.
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The problem with that politics is stagnation. It is hard to move SpaceX and Tesla out of the country, but you don't get new companies in this situations, there will be less competition and, as a consequence, Elon Musk get more power, a
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>If people are too poor to afford food why would There is no such thing in economic as "people are too poor to afford food". Growing food - is like in the start of economic chain, if people can't afford food - they startin
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>What happens if someone who doesn't believe in those ideals uses the free market to simply buy up news media and push the opposite narrative? Haven't we seen for the last 10 years exactly what will happen in this situation? I
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>we need to substantially raise taxes on the rich and reduce them for everyone else The problem with these solutions is that the math doesn't add up. Either there are too few rich people in reality, and even if you can collect 200 p
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>Can't disagree about Tinder And what wrong with Tinder? It is great if you are hot or a woman. And if you are not - well, nobody never cared anyway.
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>This should be your reminder that economic sanctions really does nothing but starve ordinary people to death That's not true. I mean we can look at Russia, which is currently under the maximum number of sanctions and doesn't s
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>Personal anecdotes are never a good proof of anything. Obviously. But when such anecdotes are consistent with the position of the democratically elected president of USA... What specific reasons do I have to not trust to MY eyes? >So
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>If megacorporations can lie to you about what they're selling you But this has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not in any way cancel out responsibility for fraud.
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>free speech absolutism is a giant "kick me" sign on the back of society How does this work? What danger represents freedom of speech? With lack of it dangers is understandable: it is a giant "welcome" sign for bloody
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I have my own experience. As a non-American, I know a lot of hungry people. And I have never heard of any help for them from USAID. And who do you think received help from USAID out of all those I have encountered and ever heard about? Only
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>What makes you confident that they won't reasonably perceive this outcome as tacit permission to start coming for other territory? Putin has approximately zero interest in territories and annexations. The entire war with Ukraine is
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>I quite like the idea of a future where the AI job holocaust largely never happened because license costs ate up most of the innovation benefit. Not quite realistic. You are talking about very huge benefits, in favor of which licenses w
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I think business model there pretty simple: to be in the front line when AI will go into the category of landscape-changing trillion dollar technologies. And investors keep pouring their billions exactly for that business model. >This hy
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>Rail works just fine in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. It's not great, but it's still cheaper than cars. Cheaper like cheaper or cheaper like more expensive, but subsidized by taxpayers who don't use it?
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>wealthy countries paying poor countries to dismantle these power plants (and presumably replace them with something equivalent) And what about wealthy countries, that using those power plants? I mean there aren't many of them now,
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I think results would be rather comparable.
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>The most likely catastrophe remains giving capital outsized influence on our society. No, in this regard, capital is ABSOLUTELY harmless. I mean, if the capital get outsized influence on our society, in the WORST case it will turn into
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>Yet, we see people with their real names and pictures support the war on social media. Mostly bots, minor officials, public sector employees and their relatives (they are forced to publish pro-war materials on their and their relatives
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>Majority of russian population supports the unprovoked genocidal war Yeah. And who doesn't support - went straight to gulag for 8-20 years. Fortunately, almost everyone there supports it, amazing unity.

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