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by zrn900 2y ago
Its not Spain's problem. Its the real estate sector's problem. Both the legitimate okupas and illegitimate 'professional' okupas do serve the purpose of forcing the real estate owners to actually USE their real estate in
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> There's clearly a gap between imaginary noble okupas addressing housing crisis via occupation of unused bank property and reality of weed smoking anarchists and their collaborating deoccupying mafia harassing mostly not-so-rich mi
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What a self-sabotaging setup. No wonder the mainstream tech got so bloated.
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Wealth always exists, and the world's wealth is always 100% at a given point, logically. The share that groups in the society take from that wealth is the topic here as another commenter explained. If the feudal lords could find a way
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Yes it varied but the main format still stood - the serfs had a sizable share of the economic value and the lords did not have 99% share like they do today. > Even the concept of the "church" being a single monolithic thing tha
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English. As mandated by the church. The rest of the feudal domains, while varied and some were much more brutal, also had the same setup in which the serfs were entitled to their share of the crop. So the point was and still is valid: Never
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The feudal laws of mostly Western Europe. Eastern serfdom has been much worse and much closer to slavery, however the serfs still had their house and share from the crops. The eastern European feudal lords, dukes, kings or emperors never ha
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> I’ll give you the startupper’s sad side. See, if we want to hire, then a team of Matrix people in full remote isn’t going tk be sexy. We need young faces on the pictures, and we need to make every day an event worth instagramming. That
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That's patently false. Feudal law required that the serfs get 33% of the produce from the fields. The economy was mostly tied to farm produce and the serfs could not be kicked out from their houses.
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> Historically, are there periods in which the wealthy holds an abnormally high percentage of wealth like now? No. Even Roman emperors did not control this much wealth. Nor the patricians. In the middle ages, even less - the feudal law m
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Those ornamented buildings with gargoyles on every duct and non-functional bends and twists at every corner were the latest iterations of art and architecture, and inevitably, the culture, of the earlier centuries when the old noble aristoc
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The article assumes this happens only on X. That's the American medical system. And not only endorsing - doctors are 'incentivized' to prescribe their drugs by pharma companies without any need to 'endorse' them too
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> When markets are allowed to work "normally", this is what always happens: regulations are lobbied to the ground, resources get depleted, profitable companies get destroyed to make a quick buck and everyone is worse off in the
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I didnt specifically mean China in my argument, however it still stands: China raised the standard of living of its people despite not only actual sanctions but even an actual grain blockade that was effected on them by the US via the UN, d
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> There's no colony, NC is a full part of France with the same rights as everywhere else Yeaaah. With the same level of wealth/income for the locals of New Caledonia as the average French has in France, right... Of course not.
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> Being able to buy and sell shares is not problematic per se, but there should be rules in place that give all workers of a publicly traded company better access to owning parts of said company. Thats not a bad idea. If it was required
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> That's insanely good compared to every other platform I've seen for any type of commerce I think Patreon has better rates and now they have commerce.
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> The founder got to keep the IP, ditch the founding employees What kind of ungodly sh*t is that...
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> If capitalism causes scarcity, then surely socialism/communism is the true champion in this game Socialism/communism is the 'champion' of that game because whenever any country tried it, the entire 'free world&
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> There's people who lived there all their life and can't vote because It doesn't matter how long a colonizer has lived in some place where he is living as a settler-colonist. > a bunch of racists The locals have no obl
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> because everyone involved is trying to avoid escalation. And that's why the worst case will never happen - behind all those circus, all of those countries (maybe except Taiwan) are doing immense amount of business with each other
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This was a no-brainer: In every modern country, there are laws that limit land ownership because if someone owns more than a certain amount of land, that land can amount to a self-sufficient small country and the owner becomes a de facto fe
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Yet still, Pfizer ended up dominating both markets - by delaying the approval of those that could compete and the lobbying making it so that it was the one that was bulk purchased in quantity. When I meant approval, I meant the approval of
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You can use throwaway accounts.
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> But if you need to spend $1 million keeping a death row inmate alive who tried to commit suicide, that money might be better spent on infants with heart defects. Money being finite (and being an abstraction of medical equipment/e
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> Capitalism is the engine that has lifted more humans out of poverty than any other. Countries which have embraced that fact have been better places to live than others Capitalism didn't lift anyone out of sh*t. In its heyday peopl
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> making the vote more democratic. "More democratic" so that the French colonists can vote. Yeah, that sounds good. > The independentist never wanted democracy It doesn't matter what the independists want. They are the
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> Is ECOWAS also imperialism? Hell yeah it is. Its a French-backed organization. > Is it ok to let countries fall to Islamists because helping them even if they explicitly ask is "imperialism"? Funny how the people who criti
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The one that's happening in New Caledonia is not the kind of genocidal settler-colonialism that happened 100-200 years ago. It is happening here and now. There is no comparison.
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If that helps you cope, go ahead. Meanwhile... https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/20... https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/analyses/europe-and-t...

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