Exactly what I meant - each billionaire is our collective investment. We invest 99% of our wealth into a few billionaire projects which might trickle down to other smaller projects but trickle down is mostly a myth we can’t accurately represent and control with our current tooling.
Yeah yeah “both sides are the same” yada yada - keep doing nothing in your eternal defeatism and preferably keep to yourself rather than spread this disease.
So tired of this tbh - I just don’t understand how anyone thinks wealth consolidation to few could be a good thing.
Even if you ignore ethics and assume the billionaires are benevolent - it’s just a bad investment to invest majority of resources to a small number of investments. Does any successful large project hold 99% of their investments in few projects? It’s absurd.
It makes absolutely zero sense no matter how you look at it unless you’re truly full in on delusion that benevolent dictators exist and are impossible to corrupt or overtake.
Justice intervention? The country is being run by a magic holy priest that says protesters are enemy if the god and deserve death sentence. You have to be functionally brain dead or evil to side with that.
You know that they’re just salivating over possible reality of doing this themselves. These people have no ethics or morals.
Funny how all of China bots are silent on China’s support of Iran whenever news like this breaks.
Powered by China and Russia btw
Lmao literally while supporting Russia for doing the exact same thing but like a billion times worse.
This never happened in US history and I don’t think americans have the spine to do anything even remotely close to this.
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Thailand visa is very easy. You can get elite visa which is like 12k usd for 5 years.
Tbh I think Japan is mostly doing fine and China has much more time given in entered the issue with tech that is much more mature.
Which is really weird give how decentralized and hard to control the world is right now. This empire strategy is a failing one for everyone involved.
Except that those with nukes will never allow any country to develop one.
Taiwan tried to in the 80s and got immediately shut down when a scientist defected to the US and revealed the nuke facilities and that’s shut down by allies. And look at them now on the brink of being invaded - bet the scientists feels real fucking stupid.
Eventually it seems like developing nukes will be easy enough i secret that everyone will have them. Apparently it would take many countries like Japan only a year or so to develop nukes in an emergecy so I imagine in 20 years that number will be few months for most countries.
Ngl this is a crazy move. Now the opposition will be utterly confused. Maduro is an evil man but also wtf.
It"s not an engineer-coded action tho. It’s more of a authoritarian-signal coded one.
Tbh I think if any country is positioned to overcome demographics problems it’s China. They have all of the manufacturing infrastructure and investing heavily into robotics and low maintenance systems. So I really dont understand such a stupid political move. As if 0.1$ more expensive condoms will start creating babies. It almost feels like a big show of control to people rather than anything tangible.
Only after you change lemmy.ml to lemmy.megalosers
Hong Kong is a small tax haven - Taiwan is a full independent country. I really think we’ve past the point where physical annexation can work with guerilla warfare and sabotage being so easily accessible in this day and age. I think CCP agrees that’s why it’ll take a decade to wear Taiwan down still
Same way a single benevolent godlike dictator could be incredibly efficient and good thing but completely unrealistic and would never happen and whenever we attempt this we get millions of people killed and set humanity back by decades. It would be such an easy fix though - we all low key want it.
Some strategies simply don’t work due to lack of self correcting and self correcting a few keys that control the world is very hard. This is exactly what’s happening today - social media gave us the power to express the need for self correcting some aspects of our society and people holding the keys have decided to not allow this. Yet again leading to conflicts that have millions of people killed and set us back by decades.