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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
No they don’t. China got richer when they implemented free market reforms, proving the idea. Unfortunately Xi is now focused on saber-rattling about national security and bullying neighbors. He has cracked down on free markets, and China’s
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Who are these invisible elites you speak of? I won’t be surprised if you mention the fictional “deep state.”
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Then they should be ready to pay higher rents for it, because everyone else also wants the same thing.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
The GP boldly said the Soviet Union wasn’t communist. Please then, what was it? Capitalist? Feudal? Democratic socialism? I need a clear answer..
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Norway has more billionaires per capita than the USA. It’s not socialist in any sense. It’s a diehard capitalist country with a lot of public services and welfare (funded by taxes generated under a capitalist system).
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
> The Chinese state takes a rather strong hand in allocating capital, and that has treated it fairly well over the past few decades. The Chinese government has spent massive amounts on vanity projects. A lot of government funds have also
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
I’m not believing cynical rubbish.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
This is cynical thinking that causes corruption and incompetence to thrive. People have a say in their government but often refuse to use it for good. That's how bad leaders get into power. Many countries continually elect smart and co
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
It’s much lower than what we have in Nigeria and Africa at large. The worst EU leader is far better than the average African leader. Then it gets worse with civil service agencies over here…they’re corrupt to the point of being almost irred
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
There’s no way Meta made $860 million in revenue from Nigeria. The country’s economy is too dilapidated to deliver that kind of revenue.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
I’m Nigerian, and this is my take. This is just a shakedown move by a corrupt, extremely incompetent government looking for funding…they might have just begged Zuckerberg to donate directly. This country has never cared about data privacy.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Nigeria is Africa’s most corrupt country and run by a barely functional government. “Banana Republic” is a fitting description.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Moscow, Idaho. St Petersburg, Florida. Angola, New York. Melbourne, Arkansas. There’s an entire Wikipedia page for US cities and towns named after non-US places. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._places_named
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
No, it won't. The Russian government, while dumb and incompetent to an unbelievable point, isn't dumb enough to try killing on American soil. Besides, it's not like the CEOs of Russian defense companies aren't publicly k
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Gabe Newell has a nice superyacht. Part of the profits surely went there :) https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht/rocinante/
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Point noted, Wikipedia breaks down the data better - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c... .
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
> When you account for medical costs, rent (especially compared to the localities in the USA that provide these huge salaries), extra vacation time, and for those with children, education and child care, this gap narrows considerably. Th
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Employee loyalty isn’t a good thing. One of the best things about Silicon Valley is that people can swiftly change companies when they get higher offers. Non-competes are void in California. There’s a reason US salaries for software devs ar
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Europe’s tech ecosystem will still benefit a lot regardless. Zero-sum thinking is not good- it causes economic regression and poverty in the long run.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Well noted.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
How's work going at the Internet Research Agency :)
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
At this rate, Johns Hopkins can enact a statue of Michael Bloomberg. $3 billion in donations and counting.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Better at saving money for their clients. If you pay someone $20,000 to legally reduce your tax liability by $100,000, it’s a win-win.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
> I will not accept any point that attempts to show that the current developmental state of the countries of the world are inevitable in any way. It leads to an extremely slippery slope that only ever ends in racism—'oh, X person is
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
I’ll trade a rare chance of bird poop to live in a pleasant leafy area :) A bird actually once pooped directly on my shirt, and it’s one of the funniest things I can remember.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
The footnote written below that info: Officer compensation may be included in charitable disbursements , so Percent of Total Expenses may add up to greater than 100%. It could also be a data parsing error from ProPublica. The information P
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
From the 2023 tax filing: 1) Center For International Reproductive Health Training - $28 million 2) Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (project support) - $5 million 3) Africa Institute for Development Policy - $3 million. 4) Amhara Re
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
> This is how the rich avoid paying taxes: the money they spend mostly comes from bank loans secured by their stocks which are only paid back by their heirs using this scheme. Only a small percentage of wealthy people do this because 1)
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation already spends $500 million annually and has doled out over $6 billion in total donations [1]. A simple Google search would have prevented writing easily falsifiable info.. 1- https://project

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