Yes, of course we do. We just need politicians willing to do that. I thinks that's the most difficult part.
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Yes and no. Capitalism without regulations may bring this kind of issues. But capitalism with regulations shouldn't. The issue is that the required regulations are not being applied or do not exist.
We should not blame or put the weight of the issue in capitalism, when we clearly know we don't live in a perfect capitalistic world, and very few markets are like that. The issue is with politicians.
No, that's an effect of collusion and cartelization of the economy. It's because you have very few actors supplying the product and the barriers of creating a similar product are too high, so new competitors cannot access the market. Then the current suppliers can sit on the product and wait for it to be at the right price, as long as it doesn't go to waste.
As you can see, all of this screens about real estate:
- Cartelization/collusion: The aren't that many companies that have properties on sale
- High cost to enter: Building is pricey, and it depends on the location of the property more than anything. So a building in one neighborhood is not a direct replacement of a building in another neighborhood.
- Real estate does not go to waste. Unless bad luck or poor choices, your building should work fine for a couple of generations. And worst case scenario, the land already has a price.
This is the time when governments should intervene and come up with a proposal to solve the cartelization.
Have a big population, season it abundantly with poverty and low social mobility, add a dash of ignorance and low education, et voilà! A magic cauldron where this and other horrific shit happen on a daily basis (if not hourly).
What about the respect given to an individual because of its status in society? There are certain people that have a base level of respect because of their seniority, job or role during a period of time.
Those people may or may not show the same amount of respect towards others as is shown to them in general. And I dare say, there will be people willing to defend them even if they are not up to expectations, just because they have that seniority/job/role.
Take for instance:
- Some politicians
- Some celebrities
- Some senior members of an organisation, like CEOs, CTOs, senior managers, etc.
It doesn't make sense because it's some conspiracy theory level bullshit. It would imply that big CEOs or board members either:
- Possess a big percentage of the current real estate properties (and I mean, huge, like 50%)
- Big part of their assets are in real estate (again, more than 30%)
And, that of course, they are all colluding. Meaning, there is a kind of Illuminati kind of society of all the CEOs that get together with pie charts and excels to see how to maximize their profits.
It's a delusion that people with a low grasp of reality are using to cope with the fact that:
- Economy is shit
- There are people that, because of connection and money, are unscathed by the economic shitinnes we live in
- Because the economy is shit, companies are grasping to get out of red numbers
- Because we have had mediocre to sheerly bad managers in almost every industry for most of the last three decades thanks to some economic bonanzas, the only way they see they can improve the margins is by doing stupid things like back to office
I like Hanlon's razor for these cases: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I this, I feel, is indeed that.
Exactly! I would add that you can still use "no binario" or "no binaria" in a (somewhat) respectful manner. For instance, you can say "persona no binaria" (non binary person), "comunidad no binaria" (non binary community), because both nouns are feminine, you can use the feminine alteration of "no binario". For masculine I would go with "su género es no binario" (its gender in non binary), since gender is masculine and "su" doesn't imply any gender at all.
Again, not an expert just another fellow native Spanish speaker with a bit of a geekiness about languages.
What you're saying is true. But charging technology is improving too. I'd argue that if you use ultra fast charging stations everywhere, your cars should be charged within 15 minutes to 1 hour. If done wisely, 10 minute charges in every stop might be the difference between not doing a trip vs actually using the vehicle.
Of course, I'm talking taking Spain's infrastructure into account, which is jackshit in this regard.
Samesies. Two different Roman Catholic schools, actually. I'd even go as far as saying that thanks to my second school, is that I'm no longer affiliated (or feel, at least, since except for excommunication, you cannot leave the Church) to Catholicism. Even more so, because my Philosophy teacher and my Catechism teacher were SO good. The first one taught me to think by myself and critically, and the second one to actually question my religion by looking at other religions.
I live in Spain, and in spite of paying a shitton of money in taxes, I can't fathom changing that for a system like the US. Man, my SO is in dialysis, the amount of money we would need to spend for something like this in the US it would put us on the street right away.
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You are not putting luck in the equation. There's still a chance that it can hit something before the truck rolls over or is blown by any projectile.
Actually, I didn't! Thanks a ton. I was going through All. This actually explains a lot.
Oof! Somebody took Karl's kool-aid.
So, first off, it's not the capitalist system that is at fault for the miners not having a back-up plan after the coal mine dries or coal is not marketable anymore. It's due to corrupt politicians and lack of foresight from the constituents, that's at fault there. But that's to be expected. Most people are unable to plan their life with more than 5 years ahead, imagine a whole town working for commodities company where they don't have enough education to understand the complexities of the market. It's simply nearly impossible. The only place that I know that did something like this is Norway, where they have a trust fund coming from all the oil money, so when their oil dries up, they can still live out of that money for a while.
And as you can see from my previous paragraph, that's not something that communism or socialism can change. That's human nature. Cuba is not a shit hole because the US embargo, it is because Castro wanted its own SimCity. The same goes for Russia during the Soviet era, or China even now. Corruption is endemic of the politicians. And that's a fact. No system survives corruption.
Finally, addressing the whole "history is a class struggle". That's to say a lot. You could say that human history has inherent class struggle, and that's fine. But in reality, history is not defined by class struggle, more than could be defined by change of ethos, power dynamics or even whimsical change of heart. It's too simplistic to say that everything has been a class struggle, because it simplifies human emotions and desires to materialistic possessions.
So I'll add the video to my list of TODOs. But I must admit that this discussion seems to be very USA centric. Here in Spain at least, lots of politicians and media do talk about which classes are affected by each policy and why. The same used to happen when I lived in Argentina.
Of course there are a lot of places where there is no middle ground. But there are a lot of places where there is. Do we abolish private property? I don't think there's a middle ground there. Do we privatize the education system completely? Lots of middle ground.
It's as naive (and dangerous I might add) to think that there is no middle ground anywhere as to think there is a middle ground everywhere. Because again, both postures are extremes, and extremes are never good nor right.
Being a centrist doesn't mean that you have to compromise on everything or you are a conservative in disguise. In fact, I consider myself a centrist and I have very strong lines I won't cross.
In my case it means that you are not torn into extremes, and that you prefer a way that respects most people rights without sacrificing basic rights or certain ethic values.
And the image there is quite low effort. It's trying to convey a message that either you are pro civil rights, or you want to kill black people. I don't think there's even a middle ground there, or a fair comparison.
Risotto. I make one with panceta and mushrooms that can't be easier to make. And the principle is to just stir for 20' or so.
Ingredients (serves for 2)
- Risotto type rice (Arborio, Carnerolli or similar) 150 gr
- Chicken broth (homemade, if store bought then liquid, never in cubes) 1 lt
- Onion 1 medium
- Panceta 200 gr
- Mushrooms (fresh) 200 gr
- Olive oil
- White wine
- Parmesan cheese (grated or in very small chunks) 50gr
- Butter 20 gr
Prep
- In a pot, put the broth to heat. It's not required for it to boil just to be hot.
- Chop the onion in very small cubes, as small as the rice grain if possible (so when you are eating it, you don't feel it)
- Chop the panceta in cubes (no bigger than your thumb)
- In a big pot, at mid heat, put the panceta to brown and defat
- Once the panceta is brown and you have a good fat source at the bottom, remove and reserve the panceta
- Put the onion in the pot and use the same fat from the panceta to sauté it. If you need more, you can use olive oil.
- Once the onion is almost translucent, put the rice and pearl the rice. From now on, you should always be mixing the rice with a big wooden spoon or similar. Never stop stirring. This will make the rice to let all the starch go, which will make your risotto creamy.
- Once the rice is pearled, pour some wine to deglase and keep stirring.
- Once the wine has evaporated and you hear the crackling, pour some broth until the rice is submerged, keep stirring.
- Once your broth is evaporated and you start hearing the crackling again, put the panceta, the mushrooms and pour some more broth. Keep stirring.
- When you see that you are low on broth and hear that the rice is crackling, check on the rice for the cooking point. It should be al dente, meaning that you should be able to bite it and feel some resistance, but it should be very edible. If you still feel it too hard, pour more broth and keep stirring.
- When your rice is done, take the pot away from the fire, and put the parmesan cheese with the butter. Stir and mix until it's uniform and creamy.
- Serve hot in small bowls or similar plates
- Decorate with olive oil, fresh grinded pepper and parsley.
Pining it on a gender or any other human characteristic that you cannot control is as stupid as it can get.
- Raping is caused by men
- Sodomy is caused by gay people
- Murders are caused by black people
- The economy is shit because of Jews (Godwin in 2)
And then the positive ones:
- Women are better for handling money
- Asians are better at math
- Black people are faster
I would love to go on and on with this. But as you can see, it's a fallacy that will get you to flawed conclusions, and dangerous if you plan to act upon them. Because by that point, you could say that killing all the men is a very good thing to do in order to avoid raping. And we all know where that goes.
I'll just stop my post here because I think I made my case, and I would love for you to reconsider your position, even if you don't change it, in light of understanding how dangerous that way of thinking is.
Otherwise, I won't feed the troll anymore.
Jerboa, Sync y Liftoff. Tengo que probar Thunder, pero en general Sync viene bastante bien pulido. Jerboa se nota que es el primero, pero necesita inversión. Liftoff fue mi gran sorpresa.
Don't blame capitalism for something that's at the core of any political system: Greed destroys it. Greed and humans are intertwined. It's not capitalism's fault. The same happened across history even when and where capitalism didn't exist: the Egyptian empire, the Roman Empire, the Soviet block and even in China now. Greedy people that can be bought will exist everywhere. The wish for power is not inherent of capitalism, is inherent of human nature. Failing to see that will lead to the same issue over and over again, in democratic or autocratic regimes.