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by refurb 1y ago
If the US builds a plant in Korea, can it hire Americans hundreds to do the work? https://www.immigration.go.kr/immigration_eng/1852/subview.d... Doesn't look like it. Several restrictions on how many (max 5
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1979 inflation: 13.3%, GDP growth: 3.2% 1984 inflation: 4%, GDP growth: 7.4% Higher growth less inflation is great for us workers
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Out of 12, only 6 saw their tumor shrink and 2 were tumor free. Thats 17% saw a complete response, 33% a partial response and 50% no response. It’s not particularly striking results, though any progress is welcome. University press releases
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We were talking about making the country better not the media circus around it. The US and UK economies were terrible. Stagflation, “malaise”. Reagan ushered in a decade of strong economic growth. I’m sure all races would trade of a highe
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I’m assuming you’re really young. The US and UK were in terrible shape before Reagan and Thatcher took office. Both improved after they were elected?
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Yes, Trump needs to give Korea permission to ignore US immigration laws. /s
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They never had valid work visas in the first place.
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Do Americans think they are special? Do they think that everything gets paid for no matter what? An endless pool of money? As a Canadian I had the pleasure of my insurer (Canadian government) denying my treatment. Multiple appeals, still
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Elected representatives should determine what healthcare I get? Really?
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This is the same argument from Mussolini's facists - "at least the trains run on time". I'm unmoved by the argument. If the choice comes down between "the trains run on time" and "I can arbitrarily impriso
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> This is why China makes the claim that it is actually more democratic[1]. This is not merely propaganda. That absolutely is propaganda. The very fact that you can't have any political party of the CCP makes it undemocratic. Howeve
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Precisely. It's easy living as a foreigner in autocratic countries. You've got a "get out of jail" card called a foreign passport which not only protects you for political reasons, but also gives you an escape hatch for
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How so? The value of Microsoft exploded. It seems to me that someone's compensation being directly linked to the value they helped create is exactly how you want people compensated.
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My company went head first into AI integration into everything . I'm counting down the days until some important business decision is based on AI output that is wrong.
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You’re ignoring the fact that the demand and supply were in equilibrium before. So the world needs to absorb almost half a trillion of new supply .
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Where to start? Comparing a 10 year US period to a 20 year period? Seems awfully selective. Let's do a side by side comparison? 2018 to 2023? 2023 is the last year with solid numbers. US: 12% real GDP growth China: 26% real GDP grow
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There are roughly 2 Chinese cohorts. The bottom 40% generating 5% of GDP, and the other 60% generating 95%. It’s hard to take your comment seriously when you’re clearly just making up numbers.
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American real GDP per capita grew at 1.7% a year from 2015 to 2025 [2] From 2004 to 2024, Chinese PPP GDP/c grew 7.4% a year [4]. What an incredibly dishonest comparison!
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What do you mean “the rest of the world will take up the slack”? Is the rest of the world suddenly going to start buying something they haven’t in the past? Why? And the US consumer market is 2x the size of the next biggest (EU). How exact
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It’s statements like these that remind me to not take social media so seriously. China does not have “very high grow momentum”, in fact growth has been seriously slowing since Covid I’m not sure sure what “growth momentum” is what it has to
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by refurb 1y ago
That's a bit of a navel gazing perspective, no? I mean, if you value other things, that fine, but to claim something doesn't exist when it clearly does is rather narrow in vision. It doesn't take much googling to find example
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Meh... that's not uniquely American. I lived in Asia and the country had a very capable public healthcare system with universal coverage. Generally a very socially harmonious society that heavily balances personal status with that of
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> Where in Asia? When was the last time in China? Are you comparing Shenzhen to Bangkok? Or lower tier cities to lower tier cities in Thailand? Maybe you misunderstood? Clearly Shanghai is nicer than Bangkok, but China is not 1.4B peopl
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You're going to compare China poverty with US poverty including welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, child tax credits, etc? The average impoverished American on Mediacid is getting far superior healthcare to poor Chinese (I've seen it
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I live in Asia, spent time in China. Sure the wealth concentrated in tier 1 cities makes them look shiney but China isn’t just its tier 1 cities it includes its rural poverty too. But I’ve experience things like healthcare and if you think
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It's not about "decent life", GDP per capita is what pays taxes, which pays healthcare and defense and other essentials. Sure, China has a fine quality of life - similar to Thailand. But they aren't going to be able to
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https://www.reuters.com/world/china/even-chinas-14-bln-popul... " Even China's population of 1.4 billion would not be enough to fill all the empty apartments littered across the country, a former officia
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Building several fold more home than there are people when your demographics are moving the other direction is called debt fueled trap .
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The blog post reads like propaganda - hitting on the same old metrics like GDP by PPP (ignoring all the other metrics that are getting worse). Who cares if it's the largest economy? What matters is productivity per person, which is ar
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Yup, you were downvoted to hell But yes. Getting hired and directly opposing the direction your boss wants to take isn’t a recipe for a long career.

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