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Pmax- Pronoun Boy retweeted
The non-working upper class, the rentiers, are far more parasitic on society than the extremely small non-working section of the lower class. It is a major focus of propaganda to convince people that the opposite is the case. Nations aren’t weakened by the small fraction of GDP spent on food stamps, they are weakened by their rentier class. The stronger this class becomes the more it entrenches itself, the more it drains from the real productive economy.
Revolutions disrupt this. They clear out large swaths of the non-productive idle rich. They give opportunities to people of great talent who would otherwise be shut out of the system. This is why the United States, France, Russia and now China became vastly more powerful in the years after their revolutions. It is why all of them became nicer places to live with better metrics for health and education.
It is why China’s prosperity and power today is completely interlinked with Mao’s policies. Deng’s market reforms were all well and good but Mao did the heavy lifting when he cleared out the landlord class. Landlords are parasites. They contribute nothing to society and are in fact a net drain. This has been recognized by classical economists including Adam Smith and David Ricardo.
There is a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth in the west about how China is finally economically powerful enough to choose not to do business with people who insult them. International football clubs worth billions now have to grovel and apologize to China. Good. These are the rewards for power in the international system.
If the West is so terrified of China’s power and of its values then why not emulate the policies that made them so powerful in the first place? If our western values of free speech and association are worth defending then why not clear out the idle class of landlords and rentiers who weaken them and our societies every day?
If we cannot do that then there is no point in complaining. China will supplant us because their economic system works better. And that’s how it should be.
Pmax- Pronoun Boy retweeted
People outside of Aotearoa appreciating Māori culture and customs yet the people who live here treat it like trash. The colonial and Eurocentric thinking here needs to end
Pmax- Pronoun Boy retweeted
im four beers deep and i need everyone to understand that wikipedia is the last good thing. millions of strangers agreed to write down everything for free and then argue about citations forever. no ads. no paywall. this should not exist and it does and i'm crying about it
If this story was to do with any other group in New Zealand it would be an election deciding scandal. Because it's happening to people most politicians and journalists agree aren't *really* people it's more just an interesting footnote.
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I am begging you to consider why "prominent wealthy figures" in NZ are doing everything in their power to ensure young women are unemployed and unable to support themselves.
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Wait so to make a propaganda game about how bad North Korea is Activision used footage from South Korea? Lol.
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This is like the evil version of what the Cubans did in Angola. FHMR
Pèp ayisyen,
Nou prèske fin deplwaye sòlda nou yo ak ekipman nou yo sou tè Ayiti. Sa a se pa yon operasyon kont pèp ayisyen an, ni yon envazyon peyi Ayiti. Nou pa yon gwo pisans. Nou pa gen okenn enterè ni pou nou vin domine pèp ayisyen an, ni pou nou mete men sou richès Ayiti.
Nou se yon peyi modès k ap devlope. Sèl sa nou vle, se pou kat teknisyen avyasyon nou yo tounen lakay yo. Epi n ap bay gang yo yon leson, gang sa yo k ap fè pèp ayisyen an soufri, ki touye moun pèp la renmen yo, k ap anpeche l viv yon lavi nòmal, lib, san laperèz.
Se prèske nou menm sèl k ap peye pou operasyon sa a. Menmsi nou resevwa yon ti èd lojistik nan men kèk lòt peyi, se ak pwòp ti kès nou n ap kouvri 90% nan depans yo.
Sa koute nou chè, men nou te aprann nan pwòp soufrans nou: jistis ak lapè pa gen pri. Nou te pase nan menm soufrans Ayiti ap travèse jodi a. Nou te viv yon beny san ki te pi terib toujou pase sa pèp ayisyen an ap sibi kounye a. Nou konnen sa sa vle di: viv nan laperèz, pa fè politisyen konfyans, pa kwè okenn moun ki pwomèt l ap ede w. Paske pèsonn pa t vin ede nou, e moun ki te vini yo pa t gen bon entansyon nan kè yo.
Men nou te rive chape anba sa. Apre 200 lane soufrans, finalman n ap viv nan lapè, e jodi a nou se peyi ki gen plis sekirite sou kontinan an.
Nou pa vin ann Ayiti pou nou touche lajan, paske pèsonn pa peye nou pou sa. Nou vin ann Ayiti pou nou goumen kont mechan yo.
Men sa m ap mande nou: fè nou konfyans, lapriyè sèl vrè Bondye a, epi mande L pou L geri Ayiti.
“Lè sa a si pèp ki pote non m lan lapriyè nan pye m, si yo soumèt devan mwen, si yo pran chache m ankò, si yo vire do bay vye peche yo t'ap fè yo, m'ap tande yo nan syèl kote m ye a, m'ap padonnen peche yo, m'ap fè peyi a kanpe ankò.”
2 Kwonik 7:14
Ede nou ede Ayiti.
Epi lè misyon nou an fini, n ap tounen lakay nou. Petèt jenerasyon Ayisyen k ap vini yo ap sonje nou kòm zanmi ki te vin ede yon lè.
Swear to God next time I lodge an insurance claim I'm just gonna lodge a proactive complaint through IFSO at the same time.
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It's so funny seeing all these fucking freaks who don't enjoy games utterly perplexed why the reliable, safe and functional platform with customer experience at the center is a near monopoly. Everything else sucks! There is no competition!
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I wish I lived like 200 years in the future and I was reading book about how in the before times people voluntary elected governments that explicitly promised to make their lives worse as some kind of self hatred and humiliation ritual.
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Daily reminder the Great Firewall wasn't built to protect fragile netizens from scary western ideas but to protect illiterate westerners from a developed intelligence, sort of like the Prime Directive.
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Pmax- Pronoun Boy retweeted
亲爱的德国人，你起码犯了两个常识错误。
一、中国没有40平米的房子。除了单身公寓这种数量极少的投资型物业，中国的房子通常在90平以上，大城市在80平以上。
二、奔驰、宝马、奥迪不再是中国人追逐的品牌。现在的中国人喜欢电动车，而德国品牌的电动车被称为杂牌电动车。
当你的基础认知就已经是错误的，你只能得出荒谬的结论。
中国商品之所以物美价廉，是因为中国有齐全且集中的供应链、高效的物流系统、自动化的生产车间，以及规模优势拉低了边际成本。
中国当然也可以为那些优秀的商品定一个昂贵的价格，以换取丰厚的利润。过去你们就是这么干的，现在以我们的产品竞争力，也有条件这么干。
但我们不这么干。
这是因为，提高利润的代价是销量降低。对于你们那个只有几千万人口的国家来说，你们无需追求销量，无需扩大能量，因为你们无需为社会提供那么多的就业岗位。
但我们是一个14亿人口的国家。对我们来说，与其只创造1000个岗位，让这1000人拿一份丰厚的薪水，不如创造10000个岗位，让10000人拿一份普通的薪水。
薄利多销，能够支撑起更大的产能，提供更多的就业岗位。对企业来说，还能获得规模优势，压缩单件商品成本，扩大市场份额，创造更大营收，然后还有了更多的资金投入研发，如此循环滚动。
另一方面，这也大大有利于消费端市场，让全世界的消费者得以享受到物美价廉的中国商品。
想想你们的盾构机。曾经你们以一台 3.5 亿元人民币的价格买给中国。你们自恃垄断了制造技术，宁愿维持一个极低的销量，宁愿让那些发展中国家用不起，也要追求丰厚利润。
中国实现盾构机国产化之后，我们将每台的价格降至3000 万元人民币以下，不到你们价格的1/10。
诚然，我们没有赚到你们那么多的利润，但我们为发展中国家提供了质优价廉的采购选择，促进了那些国家的建设与发展，同时我们扩大了市场份额，创造了更多的生产就业岗位。
我们在做着多方共赢、造福世界的事业，你们则喜欢用技术垄断剥削全世界。当中国打破你们的技术垄断，你们恨得咬牙切齿。因为你们不仅仅是丧失了利润，而且丧失市场份额，丧失了就业岗位。
你们在工业领域的失守，仍在加剧。以前，德国汽车只想要中国的工人和市场，但现在，他们不得不将研发重心也放到中国。
你们愚蠢地与俄罗斯开战，切断了俄罗斯的能源供应。你们几十年去工业化，导致理工科学生数量大幅下降，工程师人才极度缺失。
这样的营商环境，导致你们的企业纷纷关闭德国工厂，迁往中国和美国。
你们失业，你们抗议。但这一切都是你们自己的选择，你们并不无辜。
Pmax- Pronoun Boy retweeted
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO), a nurses’ union, said in a press release yesterday that a pay equity claim lodged for 750 hospice staff in September last year had been declined.
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Wait deadass is there a pro child rape billionaire candidate running for governor who is polling ahead of his big standard democrat opponent?
Yeah bro democracy is so great lmao
FURTHERMORE HIPKINS MUST RESIGN
They don't need to police it, the key to being a successful steam game is either having insane name rec/a big publisher or developing and releasing an actually good game. AI can make the art, do the code etc for your game but it can't do the actual design bit which is why FHMR
Valve says a “significant number” of employees are working on Steam’s growing visibility problem as the platform becomes increasingly crowded with new releases.
The company also says it won’t gatekeep games made with AI.
“We don’t want to be gatekeepers telling developers which tools they should or shouldn’t use.”
Valve wants to improve Steam’s discovery systems so good games can still stand out in an increasingly crowded store.
