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by qwytw 3y ago
> most actually socialist systems in the world are democratic states with mixed economies Well by any reasonable metric they are still significantly more 'capitalist' than 'socialist'. Or rather are these days, due to
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by qwytw 3y ago
> My parents were paying 5% of one salary on rent. People younger than me can barely afford rent by pooling together several salaries Right. What about the people who had to wait for 10-15 years to be "assigned" an apartment? &
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by qwytw 3y ago
Right. So I'm just trying to figure which states do you think are/were actually socialist. > held (textbook) communism Not if bolshevism was textbook communism. They did reject some core ideas promulgated by Marx (already back
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by qwytw 3y ago
> these were large, sophisticated, well-established civilizations before smallpox. I'm not arguing against that. It's just that their metallurgy industries were quite underdeveloped in comparison to those in Europe/Asia.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Nowadays we’re forced to leave our countries to avoid poverty Well you're allowed to leave your country for one thing. How many more would have left the USSR et al. if they hadn't had to risk being murdered by border guards?
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by qwytw 3y ago
> In socialist countries, workers form the ruling class So you're one of those people who claim that USSR wasn't a socialist let alone a communist country?
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by qwytw 3y ago
> A lot goes to military, policing, law, prisons, etc I never implied it all goes to welfare. Yet other things, like healthcare, education, infrastructure and loads of other things do provide some utility. > of that that $18 + $4 Ass
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by qwytw 3y ago
> It depends on your definition of treasure, of course. Wouldn't it still be a tiny fraction of what was/can be found in Europe no matter how you define it?
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by qwytw 3y ago
> for capitalists that do no work (like CEOs) I mean... sure. They still pay taxes on their income. > value extracted indirectly via the stock market, etc. Like how? > It's also for a very narrow portion of the global economy,
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by qwytw 3y ago
It depends on the services the state provides and the enterprises it owns (if it directly owns utility providers, some housing or even . A significant proportion of that 55% is used to pay salaries or for goods and services provided by ot
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by qwytw 3y ago
It depends on the services the state provides and the enterprises it owns. A significant proportion of that 55% is used to pay salaries or for goods and services provided by other businesses.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Which is supposed to be included when calculating GDP. I think the issue is that the tax system is very inefficient there in the sense that some groups are significantly undertaxed while others don't neccesarily pay that much. This cre
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Per-employee profits are far higher than salaries or taxes, I don't think that assumption at all holds true for the majority of businesses. Even an extremely profitable tech company like Google "only" has a gross margin
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by qwytw 3y ago
That's not really true generally if your margins are low and you include all the taxes paid by the worker e.g. A very oversimplified example (which I think should be somewhat approximately accurate): - Your revenue is $100 + $21 (VAT)
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by qwytw 3y ago
This is not a tax AirBnb is supposed to pay, the landlords have to pay it, AirBnb is just supposed to withhold it and transfer it to the government. They chose not to do it to make their platform more competitive with traditional hotels etc
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by qwytw 3y ago
I guess the thing is that there is much more to it to it than just a brand. If you're heavily invested into Apple's environment (spend a lot of money on apps, maybe media on iTunes etc. and/or you rely on their cloud services
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by qwytw 3y ago
> subtle flavor profile or minor product features Don't agree they are subtle or minor (it's of course a scale and coffee is objectively, based on consumer behavior and preferences, way lower on it than smartphones or PCs). &gt
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by qwytw 3y ago
> That’s like saying Folgers has a monopoly on Folgers coffee Not quite. We should apply a bit more nuance, yes iPhones and Android phones more or less can do the same things but they aren't entirely replaceable and not a commodity
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by qwytw 3y ago
Why do you think the UI is causing all the performance issues?
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by qwytw 3y ago
ARM server has a niche. If Gravitron/Ampere is good enough for your use case and you care about cost they seem like a good deal. AMD/Intel are trying to directly compete with them now with Genoa and Sapphire Rapids.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Microsoft is using Ampere chips and Ampere has some other clients like Oracle, Hetzner etc. you can use their servers inhouse too. > with the characteristics of the processor architecture nor with processor performance. Why did AMD intr
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by qwytw 3y ago
> operate even better than before Right... Except the interest on the debt Musk offloaded to Twitter during his acquisition is enough to fund 1000-2000 employees so he didn't really have a choice. I guess the operating better than b
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Grammarly is already working on that, and they might end up paying OpenAI for the technology. Unless they get a very good deal using the GPT-4 API might end up too expensive for their use case.
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by qwytw 3y ago
You can look at median disposable household income, rent/real estate to income ratio and many other indicator which tell a similar story. GDP per capita is just a proxy. > Before war Russia had GDP Well.. Russia had 2.3 times higher
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by qwytw 3y ago
> there with a straight face that Czechia is basically like Florida or Michigan Compared to the median EU country Czechia is basically like Florida or Michigan (e.g. it's GDP per capita is closer to that of the Netherlands the Michi
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Count in good education for say 2 kids (500k-1 million per head?) That seems like a very high number. There are very expensive private schools in Europe too if you chose to send your children there. > healthcare costs Yes, it depend
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by qwytw 3y ago
Well it's not exactly Massachusetts but it seems to be on par with Florida, Vermont, Michigan, Maine etc. if you look at GDP per capita (relatively). I don't think Czechia is somehow exceptionally poor (of course on the whole th
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by qwytw 3y ago
> But everybody looks at the top 0.1%, which fares, at least financially better. Let's be fair it's at the very least 10% (maybe up to 30-40% if not more) that are doing better financially than they would in Europe under simil
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by qwytw 3y ago
> the actual outlier How so? GDP per capita: Germany, $52k EU avg, $40k Czechia, $30k
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by qwytw 3y ago
Why? I mean Czechia is below average in most economic indicators but not by that much, it's far from being the poorest EU country.

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