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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
It would of course be lose-lose for everyone. But if a significant proportion of the population starts believing (rationally or not) that they have nothing left to lose it could be problematic.
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
Isn’t it the complete opposite? i.e. high automatization means that a single worker can create many times more value than before. However it reduces the demand for labor and worker bargaining power. So companies have no incentive to pair “f
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
> Other countries in the world have manage to keep workers bargaining power Such as? They might have managed to maintain it for privileged subgroups of the workforce but not for the average worker.
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
> would be very unhappy. Significantly increasing the supply of doctors would solve that, though.
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
Perhaps its not compatible. But that’s tangential to the situation in the US, at the very minimum you need to have price transparency in any ‘free market’ system.
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
There are countries in Europe which have entirely privatized healthcare systems (not even medicare/medicaid equivalents). US tried adopting some of their practices with Obamacare and even that didn’t work out. Singlepayer isn’t really
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
> it should create a common market worth its name where EU There is no reason to believe that the EU (rather than the market participants in the EU) is in any way capable of that regardless of the amount of political will. Spending massi
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
EU has no issues with wasting and burning large amounts of money for no particular reason. The issue is that the people there are incapable (or don’t want to) make the right decisions for any of this to happen.
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
> we need single European stock market New York alone has 2 stock exchanges. I don’t think that companies being listed in London, Paris and Frankfurt (they generally are listed on several anyway) is the actual issue. Especially these day
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
Understandable. However every new solution should be built from the ground up and be fully decoupled even if the migration of old services might take a while. For this specifically EU could surely (only in theory since statistically the ave
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-b... The Average Briton allegedly reads 15 books per year. I assume its self reported and poorly sampled. Otherwise its very hard to believe (and variance betw
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
That was an option for the past 15+ tears at least in some EU countries. Its just not very convenient (garbage tier software they bought didn’t help either).
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
We certainly don’t need to replicate humans or overly anthropomorphise robots. Just like cars didn’t need to imitate mechanical horses.
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
They inseparable, though? i.e. every market participant is incentivized to accumulate as much “capital” in any way they can. Competitors keep them in check which leaves a bigger share to consumers. Historically that has not been a stable sy
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
Yeah, I meant mostly the 80s and 90s (i.e. the period when the Western European countries were able to keep up with the US or ever narrow the gap). Since then they have just been coasting on top of that.
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
Well you are ignoring what I or the other comment replied almost entirely. There were many competing standards and it took quite a while for the market to converge on usb-c and only then when it was already the most popular connector by fa
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
Presumably eating in a place that had printed menu was a middle/upper class thing which would be a pretty small proportion of the population. So it’s probably not exactly fair comparing with more casual modern restaurants.
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
That used to be the case. i.e. if imposing Chat Control on all countries would have required a treaty it would hardly have any chances. However national governments have delegated the right to EU institutions to impose mandatory regulations
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
So the EU will just tell Apple and Google to remove Signal from their app stores and 95-99% of the population won’t bother figuring out it exists..
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
> simply amended as soon as such a standard emerges That statement just makes no sense. How can a new standard emerge when legally there is no option to validate its actually superior in the market? > figures out something better That
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
And because you are grateful for the cookie policies you don’t mind rewarding them with unlimited access all your private communication? I don’t really follow this argument.. > would you say has done the best job in regulating the Intern
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
Some sort of perverse inclinations of controlling other people’s lives and knowing what’s “better” for them. Delusional and narcissistic people seem to be generally significantly over represented in politics (another demographic is useful i
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
Ar they, though? The established longterm consensus is pretty reasonable in the EU, it’s not self evident that things have been going in the right direction on the whole in recent years.
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
You didn’t need the EU for the removal of trade barriers and the common market. Both were established quite a while before the EU as we know it now became a thing in the 90s. > we really want those border checks back Why? You don’t need
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
No, I implied it did. I actually think that free market competition has been the main driving force behind human progress for quite a while now. The issue is that the “winning condition” of capitalism results in the complete subversion of t
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
Possibly. If they invested their money into something more societally productive and/or the government took their money to do that or they weren’t allowed to accumulate enough surplus wealth in the first place. Of course the last two o
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
So what? That seems entirely tangential. Unless your point that economic inequality inherently accelerates technological progress (which seems valid at least to some extent)?
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
Also massive influx of money from Europe especially due to the dominance of the US megacorps and the tech sector in general. Basically you had companies like Google or Meta constantly leeching from everyone while providing approximately zer
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
It can work (and did in some places in Western Europe for a while) if housing stock is mostly state owned and/or communal. Of course that introduces some other issues
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by wqaatwt 3mo ago
> that the individual problems in each country are very different When it comes to housing prices and general cost of living the patterns are extremely similar in most Western countries. Especially after covid and the infinite money hose

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