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by kwere 3y ago
people in today world are disconnected from their "nature", we are made to be seminomad huntergatherers living in small tribes of kin. A lot of our wants are a surrogate of our biology, like the craving for sugars/fats. A lot
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by kwere 3y ago
malthusian bollocks, earth can sustain tens of billions of human beings, the downside that 10 acre mcmansions and huge pickup trucks will be unaffordable for the "middle class". We produce already enough resources, we waste them o
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by kwere 3y ago
more like socialist policies aftereffects, first of all government pension scheme which gave the illusion to working class they didnt need to have childrens as a safety net for old age relegating them as the "fruit of love". Spoil
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by kwere 3y ago
i believe Universal Basic Income & All you can Use research resources would be a sustainable model for people who prove mastery on a subject (Phd) and can show "improvements" to said subject (acclaimed research?). That would
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by kwere 3y ago
Chatgpt will not take any liability for its ramblings, we still have a role for managers
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by kwere 3y ago
consumers most of the time dont care about craftmanship, even if the end product is far superior & lasitng than the cheaper shoddier alternative, and when they do its mostly for status. As european i remember how discounts had to remark
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by kwere 3y ago
automation will increase worker productivity making smaller cohesive teams more efficient into producing results, entrepreneurship will be a lor more accessible, leading to a creation of specialized "skilled" jobs.
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by kwere 3y ago
politics is more about ideology and appeasing the powerbase than developing the nation or reaching "targets".
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by kwere 3y ago
In Victorian England children were still an asset to rent to industries and mining operations
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by kwere 3y ago
Instead in Italy we say that the government is poor but its citizens are rich [0]. A country of shopkeeper and small business owners never too keen to pay duties to government and always looking for some scheme to game welfare/subsidie
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by kwere 3y ago
Or we can say that the massmedia landscape is shaping a generation of people incapable of handling dissenting opinions in a constructive way, everything is becoming emotionally charged and taboo to question; in an era of unlimited access to
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by kwere 3y ago
Westerners need to behave and sacrifice to atone past sins or whatever. Its all a religion with a veneer of scientism
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by kwere 3y ago
troubled teens happened, once upon a time a mall cop was scary enough to force teen to behave a little.
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by kwere 3y ago
Chinese leadership has shown time and time again that is willing to ruin the country economic base rather than undergo any political change that will lower even the reputation of the "party as the center of the nation". Xi Jimping
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by kwere 3y ago
Singapore is a city-state made up of two+ etnicities, what worked for them probably wouldnt scale to something more complex as a big & diverse nation like U.S.A
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by kwere 3y ago
Can be, but for mature and established people it takes real will to restart from zero
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by kwere 3y ago
>that everyone can reach a similar intellectual level given the right "system" False on absolute terms and useless for most "real life" training. Time to learn/master a subject is an enormous competitive advantag
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by kwere 3y ago
At least we can still be useful for the greater society
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by kwere 3y ago
Unions are too adversarial in relation with business owners/managers for a Pareto efficency in most of modern economies. What they do mostly is forcing a price on labour due to their cartel like strenght, when they are not sitting on t
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by kwere 3y ago
you can choose a variety of minors in your degree course, right?
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by kwere 3y ago
China has always had hegemonic ambitions with "(Communist) chinese characteristics" using the "Hide your strength, bide your time" approach. Xi Jimping, showed its aggressive attitudes without having enough strenght behi
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by kwere 3y ago
ADL showed a lot of ethnic bias in "exposing" hamas simpatizers compared to the demographics of such simpatizers. This organization and others (ACLU,BLM,...) hide behind "mighty missions" to covertly push narratives of i
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by kwere 3y ago
its Illinois, a state with a crazy history of mob-like instituzionalized corruption.
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by kwere 3y ago
>the point of a diamond is that it's expensive its just a marketing stunt that became a culture icon in a society weak to commercial propaganda last century. Its basically a tacky display of status or a modern bride price, something
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by kwere 3y ago
the arbitrage is cost of production there + shipping vs local production cost
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by kwere 3y ago
banks literally operate in a fascist framework, the goverment control literally everything on how they can operate, usually under political logics above sound economics (paper growth by debt creation). By being a sector which consolidate na
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by kwere 3y ago
entrapment would be more like tempting someone into doing crime, this honeypot is more a public safety service as it targets already would be murderers
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by kwere 3y ago
rental yields are not that great outside short term rentals and equity appreciation lag inflation even in the "european capital" Milan
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by kwere 3y ago
Societies are a multigenerational building project, far beyond taxes-welfare ratio or the "culture preservation", the idea that nations are simple interchangeable places where somebody makes money and consume goods/services i
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by kwere 3y ago
Singapore is a special case, Korea is more a fair comparison, the country was by most metrics in a worse shape than most (african & non) colonies at the indipendence/civil war. Korea developed well considering its starting position

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