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by kwere 2y ago
in Italy gypsies are associated with travellers that live in makeshift trailer parks. they dont have access to stable temporary jobs and the stereotype is that they steal to make a living. The sanitary conditions in 80% of the nomads parks
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by kwere 2y ago
there was a loophole that allowed wealthy people to donate to museums works of arts in exchange of a write off on the value of the artwork. to limit abuses they patched it so that you can writeoff only the purchase price not the market valu
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by kwere 2y ago
When a product is engineered to be as addictive as possible to increase sales/usage it should be considered a "drug like" substance and be heavily regulated/monitored for public health reasons. This treatment should incl
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by kwere 2y ago
the democratic will should be only on state or common goods. On their land persons should be able to do whatever whitlist following safety guidelines. including operating a nuclear facility
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by kwere 2y ago
The best way to create new countries to try different societal models is by claiming the only unclaimed territories in the world, international waters with floating cities. There are various projects going on [0][1][2] [0] https:/&#x2F
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by kwere 2y ago
investing on cutting edge tech has historically been more beneficial to society in large than similar (tiny) amounts in welfare projects. Increasing workers productivity also makes similar levels of taxation less burdensome. lets say you ne
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by kwere 2y ago
Sure, he has become the richest man of the world with various world class companies by accident. Elon Derangement Syndrome is real
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by kwere 2y ago
Most economies are not meritocratic and/or capitalist but mixed economies where the state direct good % of gdp towards political goals. in these societies the ones who makes real money are in proximity of the "printing press"
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by kwere 2y ago
>Who said EV was suppose to rescue PRC economy? the gov is heavily investing & publicizing "New productive forces"[] that include "new energy vehicles" []: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_pr
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by kwere 2y ago
if its a scientific research why not? Governments should spend the money they squander in vote grabbing welfare instead in Researchs of various kind, even crazy ones for points of GDP
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by kwere 2y ago
it shows that the companies are not competing with each other for talent, one reason is that due to immigration & international learning centers Oxbridge provide a stream of (white collar) skilled workers needing a visa willing to work
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by kwere 2y ago
the future of US is most likely some sort of Brazil with lots of gun violence
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by kwere 2y ago
its mostly due of computer science becoming mainstream and no more niche or for "asocial nerds". Only a selfselected minority 'back then' thinkered their afternoons around computers
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by kwere 2y ago
Crowdstrike (unless it is a front of some sort) has absolutely not resilience as these other businesses, expecially after such blunder for a "security" company
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by kwere 2y ago
more reasonable than such company having 500+ P/E ratio.
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by kwere 2y ago
Yeah, fast changing demographics means fast changing values.People that come in mass from failing or disfunctional or just very different societies can and do bring with them "incompatible" values. Us modern ability to integrate &
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by kwere 2y ago
>Without immigration, U.S. population growth would be well below replacement rate. This is a growing problem throughout the entire developed world with no fair answers We are living in a death cult(ure), we arent reproducing maybe for ec
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by kwere 2y ago
anecdotally, as an Italian i worked summer jobs in the rural side few years ago being paid 4$ an hour off the table, and it was considered a very good pay. I hear all the time of illegal migrants being paid 2/3 $ an hour without any co
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by kwere 2y ago
the tech talent is still safe, its "junior" level people that are struggling due to the "downturn" in tech. Probably when big tech fired people, lower level corpos took that talent at a small discount, putting pressure o
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by kwere 2y ago
with a compounded growth of 3% yearly, USA would be able to double its GDP every 24 years. thats where most people expect the extra revenue to come from, somewhat naively
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by kwere 2y ago
outsurcing to India or similar cheap places has been the "solution" to most big non-tech firms for decades now, smaller ones hire local or "same continent" contractors (latam or eastern Europe), keeping a small team onsi
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by kwere 2y ago
high tech "machinery" is the constraint for most capital intensive businesses
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by kwere 2y ago
yeah, to bargain one needs strenght, on such scenario, UBI would mostly like benevolence of the powerful to stabilize their power structures. The masses will comply with UBI or not
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by kwere 2y ago
the only way to catch pedos, if anybody really cared, would be with honeypots and "trojanlike" content, which could infect csam collectors devices and transmit data to police. It also work as a scaring tactic, so to limit diffusio
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by kwere 2y ago
accounting, expecially tax optimization is really interesting/fun, but maybe its just in my bubble in a high tax country where most of the middle class needs tax optmization to live above the poverty line
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by kwere 2y ago
People are angry that their economic systems arent compatible with having families either with current salaries or time committment careers require. Most people (women in primis) find themselves sacrificing basic quality of life to have 1 o
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by kwere 2y ago
fortunately grandma is politically irrelevant in china (ayi's are worse than Mao), though the age of its leadership is showing, as they are still obsessed in trying "socialism" and see skyscrapers as the ultimate hallmark of
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by kwere 2y ago
A lot of trades not only require hands on experience as apprenticeships, but also buttloads of certifications / legal liabilities to sign off projects, which act as a sensible moat agianst unskilled migrant laborers that dont know the
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by kwere 2y ago
The EU is a socialist project since its inception, a third way between the excesses of capitalism and comunism
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by kwere 2y ago
Colonialism except for few colonies here and there was a big source of cost for european Nations. Buying raw goods from cashstrapped Kleptocracies is a lot more efficient / cheaper

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