mantas

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by mantas 4y ago
Coming from ex-USSR, what is most amazing to me about West is how people trust the government and media. On one hand it's nice. I can imagine the sweet social contract them brought those societies to such place. But on the other hand i
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by mantas 4y ago
And then you end up as a subculture relying on the host culture, but at the same time staying away with it. Coming from ex-Soviet country, that gives sad vibes of our infamous russian-speaking soviet-era settlers who never bothered to integ
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by mantas 4y ago
Automation will help with that. Growing salaries for those fewer young people would help too. For example to buy real estate that'd get cheaper. There's always someone else on the other end of „afford the goods and services“.
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by mantas 4y ago
On the other hand, why other people would have to pay for your poor life choices? Why another 16h/day worker who does lead healthy lifestyle have to subsidise his mate who goes by „live fast, die young“?
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by mantas 4y ago
There're plenty of safeguards the society has developed over a long time. But if somebody heads for relationship straight from romance movies with drama all around and sex is #1 criteria... Then outcome is pretty clear.
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by mantas 4y ago
More like don't marry a psycho and maintain communication...
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by mantas 4y ago
Awareness is important without cars too. Be it cyclist to cyclist or runner to cyclist. You may not hear mountain lion, but you may hear stray dog.
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by mantas 4y ago
This was true for a very short time though. That’s like painting whole USSR in the spirit of NEP or the corn experiment or Holodomor. On the other hand, all of that is a good example how experimental and far-reaching the totalitarian regime
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by mantas 4y ago
> (2) Yes, but that was only for university graduates, it was time-bound Time-bound forced work is still forced work. > and came with additional job security guarantees and often with guaranteed accommodation Serfdom and slavery also
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by mantas 4y ago
It wasn't significantly less present. Singing yourself was just a given. During work, at celebrations etc. It gave full control as well.
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by mantas 4y ago
Unions, representative democracy that actually represented different layers of society...
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by mantas 4y ago
1) Not working was illegal in USSR. 2) After graduation, you'd get an assignment for your first workplace. Technically you could choose, but in reality the choice was limited and it was more like companies headhunting students. There w
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by mantas 4y ago
Then wages should be growing fast with pensioners spending their wealth on ever-more-expensive services.... Yet this doesn't seem to be happening?
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by mantas 4y ago
Higher wages will attract workers from other companies/sectors. Those companies that can't pay market wage will have to automate or raise prices. Or cut profits..
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by mantas 4y ago
Well, food is my cost centre. I should come in to a restaurant with €1 and expect to be fed. When I get kicked out, I'll just call it food shortage! It smells to me like „market for me, but not for thee“. Does labour have market force
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by mantas 4y ago
Labour shortages or not willing to pay market wages?
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by mantas 4y ago
This is completely true aside from „no sundays“ bit.
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by mantas 4y ago
Average american worker has freedom to tell jokes about US president. Average soviet worker also had freedom to tell jokes about US president :)
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by mantas 4y ago
Looking what housing it was... I wouldn't be so sure. Today's cashier on a minimum wage lives in a much nicer apartment than average soviet citizen. Who was likely to spend his 20s and 30s in housing with shared amenities. With ma
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by mantas 4y ago
And belonging to the party in soviet era didn't mean working in party structure. You want to raise beyond certain level in engineering or management? You gotta sign up to the party. But signing the paper may be your only activity in th
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by mantas 4y ago
Not just „rural“ people. Unless „urban“ is limited to Moscow. Where soviet elite had to hide church activities even harder than their counterparts in periphery. There was an attempt to remove religion in early era, but Stalin put an end to
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by mantas 4y ago
Should people low-cost-of-life areas pay taxes to subsidise people in high-cost-of-life areas? If one area gets stupidly expensive to live at, maybe people should get their affairs in order accordingly?
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by mantas 4y ago
> $9 ikea has been pretty good for many years up until the plastic push knob started to break I had this happen to me... Sugru ball works great as a replacement knob.
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by mantas 4y ago
> If it hurts, stop doing it. I'd love to say that in some cases. But boy that may backfire....
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by mantas 4y ago
Well, looks like it's not a problem then. And it doesn't look like they're for your „civil liberties“. Unless you don't like them voicing their opinions and their choices?
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by mantas 4y ago
> the fact that the ancients didn't have psychology Religions of the old day is pretty close to today's psychology. A lot of today's psychological practices just repeat parts of religious stuff.
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by mantas 4y ago
I know the numbers. But IMO that's wrong. Dinner is dinner, wether I cooked it myself or paid someone to cook it for me. Rat race for GDP without context must die.
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by mantas 4y ago
Is it bad or do you just dislike it? Both sides have good and bad aspects as well as good and bad individuals. What if progressivism went too far and some reaction to that is needed to bring balance?
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by mantas 4y ago
Centralized app itself doesn't solve the problem. In my city after a short happy period we're back to crappy taxis like you describe. Mostly because the biggest app (Bolt) doesn't care. And the city doesn't care as well.
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by mantas 4y ago
Kindle is switching to epub. For example send-to-kindle no longer takes mobi, only epub.

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