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I also want to know. Same with Tony Blair. Alas, I’m not a legal scholar.
I also want to know. Same with Tony Blair. Alas, I’m not a legal scholar.
Good for you! I used to live in a flatshare, so I had a bigger bubble than most and that helped
Sitting in a shitty room and not being able to go outside is torture enough for most. Remember how we all went a bit wonky in the head during lockdown? Like that, but for a lifetime.
Okay, have a nice day!
More of a social democrat actually, although of course any purism of philosophy in economy is naive and can hardly be translated into the real world. Mind you, I’m not an economist, I just take part in it as a producer and consumer. I was just reading Adair Turner’s articles on how financial growth might in fact take rent on the real economy rather than deliver economic value, what is called “unproductive financialization”, I think you might be interested in reading around this idea.
I’m also against the military dictatorship installed by the United States anywhere outside of the United States, but we’re talking about China and right now we’re going into whataboutism territory and I’m going to disengage. Have a nice day!
You say libs, but I’m not a liberal. I’m very pro regulations, what Lemmy would say “a leftist”.
But, you see, I also believe in democracy. It’s slow, but it’s a noble idea where citizens are able to decide who governs over the country, and have a say in policy shaping. I personally like being able to vote and go on protests. If the people of Taiwan want to vote, let them vote. It’s their lives.
Markets don’t self-regulate, though
No, I don’t mind you asking. When it comes to talking about race relations in Europe and systemic racism against black people in the US, especially in the US she’s of the view that Obama became president = racism solved, this she relates to how many Uyghur people are “actually in power”, like black people in the US. I still see a systemic problem.
Another one is when we talk about Taiwan. I’m of the view that a country is made up of land, people, and government, and the people should have a say in who governs them. She thinks Taiwan (and Hongkong) belongs to China because it has always historically belonged to China. Thing is, we both live and work in Germany, but I don’t think she knows which parts of Europe used to historically belong to this or that other kingdom that are now divided into different countries.
I’ve seen this sentiment being repeated in the replies, yet this also applies to private companies that are run by absolutely powerful people. It’s true that Lord Acton wrote this about the monarchy, but some execs in multinational corporations today are just as powerful as old-timey monarchs.
It’s the one-party system that bothers me, really. When I talk about politics to my one close-ish friend from mainland China, I often feel like she comes from an alien planet
Private companies are also run by people. “The market” is also affected by people making imperfect decisions all the time, waiting for it to self regulate is…well, I mean, aren’t we still waiting?
This is about the Americas, yes? I believe its original roots was in Calvinism, that is, the brand of Christianity in the reformation era that was brought over to the Americas by early European settlers/colonisers as proposed by the theologian John Calvin. It’s something about how God chose its people and gave them the grace of worldly wealth. Wealth is good because it comes from God, so it follows, that poverty is due to a lack of God’s grace = immorality (laziness, lack of personal qualities, wickedness).
I think I read about this in a book about US American economy a couple of years ago, but I can’t remember which book it was.
I also love me some toned abs. The guys in my skate park wears crop tops and sometimes I just sit on the ground eating cherries.
Coming out of lockdown, remember?
Correct. Along with crop tops. Because it’s the era of paying more for less in everything, even clothing materials.
Nah, this is objectively incorrect. We all know 2021 was the start of paying more for less. 2021 fashion was crop top, crop jeans, crop everything, even our crisp packets had less crisps in it. Over it all, you wore a jacket that used to be your Dad’s blazer that he used to wear for work (the super boxy one).
Suuper late reply. Morals change, ethics evolve. I probably won’t be alive the day this happens, so I’ll leave with a shrug.
Before we get there, it is wise to re-examine what we lose when everything is commodified. You might not mean to sound anti-woman, but you do sound anti-woman, anti-personhood even, because what you’re saying is that a person’s body (regardless of gender and sex) and likeness can be commodified without the person’s consent, or even knowledge that it is happening. You might be interested in reading Michael J. Sandel’s “What Money Can’t Buy” and examine your fantasy from an economic-political point of view.
The days of overclocking your CPU so that your pr0n would load faster TT__TT and we used emojis like that. Those were dark days, but people learned a lot about CPU cooling.
Apparently there are some Cherry MX sets from 30 years ago that are still working today. So I guess part of it is longevity, part nostalgia.