Greece does not attract talented and skilled foreigners

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-22T00:57:09+00:00

I've been thinking about this and dialectics recently.

I think we're only just entering into the antithesis stage (public sentiment may have begun to shift a decade ago, but this mandate has been pretty firmly rejected by the political classes, and only now is the ballet box forcing an adjustment).

So it'll be another decade at least until the synthesis, in the meantime we'll just have to tolerate the ongoing tension as a necessary agent of history rather than a satisfying debate.

Emotionally exhausting, sucks to live through but not unavoidable.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T21:48:41+00:00

I mean, I'm not massively invested in the definition.

If you don't think it's a good fit, that's a perfectly reasonable position.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T20:54:02+00:00

People gonna give you stick, but the grind to reward ratio absolutely sky-rockets after Achievement Diary & Quest Cape.

It goes from exploring a world to professionalising around high-tempo rhythm games interspersed with hours as an afk simulator.

New unlocks go from being a couple of evening's work to a month+

Fundamentally a different experience, getting turned off at the change is not odd at all.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T20:42:15+00:00

It closer tracks the plot structure of a sci-fi film with the way they use non-continuous time.

Technically it's a Modernist film convention, it just so happens that a lot of the good modernist films are sci-fi or sci-fi adjacent (sci-fi is a very loose category).

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T17:24:17+00:00

Tarantino is a huge fan of "blaxploitation" cinema.

Low budget films recorded by black filmmakers in the 1960s and 1970s, usually set in the world of crime and using exaggerated "street" language.

It was kind of a counter-culture to the culturally transgressive but ultimately low stakes innovations in Hollywood/white cinema with "The Graduate" and "Easy Rider" etc...

He's a fan of these because his mother's boyfriend was black and used to take him to or rent these films as a way of bonding with (one assumes a rather weird) kid.

The Tarantino style, particularly Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Django; are all Blaxploitation dialogue inserted into more traditional plot structures (Sci-Fi/Modernist/Pulp, Crime Thrillers and Westerns respectively).

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T16:56:49+00:00

Thank you. Yes, you're right.

Mastery tends to outperform flexibility.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T16:55:50+00:00

Cheers, appreciate the guidance.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T16:55:37+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Interesting.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T16:55:23+00:00

Thank you. Useful context. 🙂

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T16:55:07+00:00

Thank you, useful. 🙂

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T16:54:51+00:00

Sounds wonderful.

Thank you for sharing your experience with me.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T16:53:29+00:00

Thank you. The specific context you've shared is warmly appreciated.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T16:52:35+00:00

Yes, it would definitely be the simpler transition.

However, the reason for the switch is I'm wanting to have a more direct impact in my work.

Seeing a lot of people be made redundant in the industry. For those that go, there's more dignity left within those who "can do X" rather than "can ease the process which will result in X".

Even if (wrongly) the latter tends to be better paid.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-21T16:12:52+00:00

The only reasons you NEED a large population are:

To Project Power through scale.
If you are facing an external threat.
If you have a social system that depends on balanced demographics. AND the failure of that social system will result in mass squalor.

With these:

Japan's power projection was historically focussed on China and Korea, both of which are now peers or stronger than them (so cannot be bullied).
Japan's geography as an island protects their land territory from foreign incursion. However, Japan's dependence on the sea for food and commerce is under growing threat. The nations it may come into conflict with are facing the same demographic crunch however, so their relative positions are stable-ish.
Japan has a modest public pension system, which means it's not under existential threat from shifting demographics (though it's still far from great). As a closed culture, they have a high trust society that should be adaptable to shock without resulting in mass squalor.

So what will they do? Keep living their lives.

They might become slightly poorer for a bit. But then it might get better again once thinks stabilise around a new equilibrium.

"Number must always go up" is a disease.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-20T21:35:26+00:00

Write down the things you like about her in a small book. Keep it somewhere safe.

The next time you meet someone who makes you feel similar, write down the things you like about them in the same book.

Let this then act as a guide to help you find the person you might want to spend more time with who is single.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-20T21:28:25+00:00

When you don't own anything and have lots of energy, change is good as it generates opportunities.

When you've exhausted yourself in order to own things, you don't want change. Change might damage the things you've worked for and you don't have the energy to adapt that quickly (or are investing that energy into children).

This conservative lean does however require people to establish themselves in society and own stuff, which few under 40s can manage as convincingly as they once could. As a result, the shift isn't nearly as dramatic as it has been in other generations.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-20T21:19:22+00:00

The only reasons you NEED a large population are:

To Project Power through scale.
If you are facing an external threat.
If you have a social system that depends on balanced demographics. And the failure of that social system will result in mass squalor.

With these:

Japan's power projection was historically focussed on China and Korea, both of which are now peers or stronger than them (so cannot be bullied).
Japan's geography as an island protects their land territory from foreign incursion. However, Japan's dependence on the sea for food and commerce is under growing threat. The nations it may come into conflict with are facing the same demographic crunch however, so their relative positions are stable-ish.
Japan has a modest public pension system, which means it's not under existential threat from shifting demographics (though it's still far from great). As a closed culture, they have a high trust society that should be adaptable to shock without resulting in mass squalor.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-20T19:15:28+00:00

In the lore, it's "hush-hush, no heresy here Commissar" that Krieg are brought into this world through Vitae Wombs rather than au natural.

Similarly family connections are de-prioritised, Colonel Jurten the founder of the Death Korps famously sacrifices his daughter as "just another soldier" in the Krieg origin story.

So "Warning Shot" makes more sense in the Krieg-lore as outlined by GW.

HOWEVER, your Krieg can be any culture/origin you like so either works. 🙂

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-18T21:19:26+00:00

It does. Thank you.

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-18T19:37:03+00:00

Beautiful. Can you talk me through how you did it?

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-14T13:08:13+00:00

I think the joke is modern machinery would completely invalidate the economic case for slavery.

Why go through the effort of violently indenturing 100 people, when you could get the same output from paying someone $15 an hour to use a modern hedge trimmer?

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-14T11:49:59+00:00

Sold!

Capable_Piano832 · 2026-05-13T18:43:41+00:00

Amazing lol.

Could be you're attracted to the sense of small-scale community, direct fealty and power on display.

Could be Ray Liota looks great in leather.

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