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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> China and the cultural revolution/great leap forward should be a warning of what can happen when there is no oppositional veto power. In the Angloamerican West people always bring up the Cultural Revolution as a cautionary tale, b
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> If I pulled the trigger, it would be to a similar CoL location, but that still gets to their point: if many people do the same, prices go up. Housing availability goes down. And all the knock-on effects that could result in "gentr
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> This seems to be an assumption you made, but the poster did not imply or state He doesn't need to. The dynamics of such emigration are always like that. > I'm not looking for lower CoL places, I'm looking for comparab
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> What motivates such a rude answer? Gentrification. > Nothing in his post suggests that he would go gentrify a low COL place Nobody who moves out of the richer countries goes to a richer country. This includes the ultra-rich: Even th
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> Don't start a war against neighbours or other neighbours might get angry Those other neighbors themselves invaded many countries. They stole the money of other countries. Like Venezuela. They never had their assets stolen. Apparen
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> It also ignores the fact that since the 1970s the United States has transitioned more and more to information and services jobs. Even that would have been better. The reality is that since the 70s the brainpower of the US has been push
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Its Selfishness... Selfishness that is encouraged, rewarded and enforced by capitalism finally takes its toll and destroys society. Everything is for the maximization of self-gain. Everything is for the individual. Despite the individual be
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> I can only say my personal intent isn't that. I live a simple life. And yet you will end up doing that when you move to such a country. Regardless of your intentions. > it's my job to adapt and to respect the culture and c
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Took long enough. This was a long time coming.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Capitalism eventually ends up in those with capital making those without capital work until they drop. We are in that eventuality right now.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> The policies are different too, but over time we've gone from a world where there were at least some cases where the two parties had different policies for how to reach the same goals, and into a world where the parties policies a
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
The Eu will take care of that by slapping taxes/tariffs or regulations, and the rest of the world will also do the same. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Stealing the assets of countries like Venezuela and Russia caused this to happen by making the rest of the world move off of the dollar to secure their asses. Doing more of them is the dumbest idea that can be proposed.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
If the billionaires pack up and move to another country, then those who are willing to pay their due taxes and operate with a lesser profit margin would take the place they left in the market. There is no need to oblige sociopathic profitee
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Yeah, go gentrify the locals in some lower-cost-of-living country. You sure 'deserve' it because for some reason you have a 'right' to just immigrate there and buy their housing and sh*t from under their feet.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
So you prefer the pretense of civility to the honesty of reality. Occupy protesters who got curbstomped on the ground by police would disagree.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Every organization can do wrong. However the state is the tool of the society, and its far better than handing things over to unaccountable, sociopathic private profiteers who stop at nothing to maximize their hoards of wealth made up of im
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Though I dont think there are such boundaries at R2? They openly state what they charge for. And what they charge for is not egress. Its storage and operations, and they have very generous pricing.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> There's been just as much "cash" created by stock market overvaluations and un-backed securities. Yes, though they originate from the free-cash printing. Both through the central bank (Federal Reserve) and private banks
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Good points. Though, the Soviet attempt has been extremely successful in many ways. We owe the social state we have in modern society to the Soviets succeeding in establishing all those practices and programs and showing that they can be do
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
You could have used Cloudflare R2 for object storage and Hetzner for almost everything else.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
The Soviets were insanely successful: From the 1920s to 1960s they raised the USSR to space age, industrialized it to become the 2nd superpower, won a world war, upgraded citizens from village huts to apartments, from being barefoot to cars
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> They've just decided that our sanity is less valuable than their ad revenue. Precisely why it should be broken up.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Because modern 'economy' is just holistic economics jargon to rationalize the system of inequality that extracts economic value from the bottom and gives it to the top...
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Considering how German government is persecuting people for being pro-Palestine, I wouldn't want to share one bit of data with German entities.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> Economic nationalism is bad when Trump does it and bad when Europe does it too. Now, now. Because Trump is 'hOrRiBLe' for putting an honest face on fascism and imperialism that always existed in the US and its vassals, we hav
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
"Return" to whom. Byzantium was never "European", it was shunned at its time by entire Europe - by both the Catholic Mediterranean parts and the Germanic parts. The Romaioi (as the Byzantines called themselves) turned i
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
It has a customs union.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> It's March 2025 and the US has gone full-fascism. It's amazing to see people say things like this as if the US was any different before. Trump just put an honest face on fascism and imperialism. Before, they were exercised in
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> - In Europe, getting funding is literally like pulling teeth. Because Europe was not able to print unlimited Euros to flood its economy with free cash like how the US was able to do it thanks to the reserve currency status of the dolla

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