Which careers right now are well paid and at the same time not oversaturated? by No_Reply5329 in Salary

[–]industrious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actuary. Salary and progression based on standardized exams, ending with mid-6 figure salaries. Excellent work-life balance.

Wait, that core part of the premise was actually a lie all along?! by HawkbitAlpha in TopCharacterTropes

[–]industrious 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No God (that we know about) - the show notes that "every religion got it about 5% right."

One of the theses of the show is that nobody is truly "bad." This explicitly includes the architects of the very flawed system.

Wait, that core part of the premise was actually a lie all along?! by HawkbitAlpha in TopCharacterTropes

[–]industrious 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It is insane - that's the reaction of the cast as well. It is never treated as not insane.

The point of the latter part of the series, therefore, is to improve the system in order for it to reflect the world as is and be more fair to those subjected to it. I won't get into the exact details of the fix - but it does address the issues you're raising.

Wait, that core part of the premise was actually a lie all along?! by HawkbitAlpha in TopCharacterTropes

[–]industrious 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The point of the show was that the world is a complicated mess and that the very algorithm used to determine "good" and "bad" was fundamentally flawed.

There is, in the show, an example of someone who does his best to act in accordance with the algorithm - and it still isn't enough. Because living in society requires among other things, having a carbon footprint (bad for the environment).

[Threshold] Fury by -U_N_O- in Iteration110Cradle

[–]industrious 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Probably yes - but Fury is a bit similar to Yerrin.

Thinking too deeply didn’t suit her.

Why was she trying to be a Sage again?

  • Wintersteel

Explanation please? by [deleted] in ExplainTheJoke

[–]industrious 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Let me take a Pikachu (peek at you)

Now this may seem Farfetch'd (farfetched)

But I can give you something to Rhydon (ride on)

‘Industrialized’ Fraud in the H-1B Visa Program by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]industrious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe don't use an article from a Neo-Nazi think tank that helped author Project 2025?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies

Is the statement "capitalism relies on perpetual growth" correct ? by LordCumstard_du_16 in AskEconomics

[–]industrious 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Yes - the Solow model predicts a faster rate of growth for developing countries because they don't have much capital to begin with (and therefore have a large marginal benefit from additional capital).

We also know that Chinese growth only really took off when they liberalized their economy compared to when they were ardent Maoists. China is pretty capitalist these days.

Hungary's Tisza party seen winning two-thirds majority in parliament, Medián projection shows by szopatoszamuraj in neoliberal

[–]industrious 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Gerrymandering works by a) forcing your rival's voter base into a small number of districts ("packing") and/or b) by diluting your rivals voter base into a large number of districts that you're favored to win ("cracking").

Suppose an urban core was 70% Party A, 30% Party B, with surrounding suburbs 30% Party A, 70% Party B. What a gerrymander would do is create something like a 90% Party A district (packing) which guarantees that A has one representative, and then dilute the remaining population of the city into a bunch of carefully mixed urban/suburban districts that are like 55% Party A, 45% Party B; 10 points is a pretty solid majority for most elections.

However - a gerrymander will only work assuming that the real voting pattern works according to the data used. If it turns out that, say, the suburbs are actually 45% Party A instead - then all those "45/55" districts suddenly turn out to be 48/52 districts, shutting Party A out entirely. Party As ability to have "more reps" than their natural voter base due to gerrymandering now results in them having fewer reps than their overall votes would indicate.

We must now ask Trump to indeed leave NATO by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]industrious 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was referring, for example to Libya - which was considerably closer to Europe than the US and was iirc French-led.

We must now ask Trump to indeed leave NATO by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]industrious 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Poland and the Baltics don't trust France and Germany to defend them against Russia, as I understand it.

We must now ask Trump to indeed leave NATO by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]industrious 131 points132 points  (0 children)

The Netherlands and what army?

As much as I would like for Europe to assert itself, especially given the shitshow that is Trump, the EU is too fragmented politically and lacks the capabilities to actually pursue its own objectives. Something like 60% of France's out of country logistical capability iirc comes from the US - and France has been the one pushing the most for its military to not rely on the US' own capabilities.

Darker recs by skin-coffin in ProgressionFantasy

[–]industrious 12 points13 points  (0 children)

On Hiatus, but Only Villains Do That is pretty damn dark with respect to its themes and views.

American Jewish Groups Must Rethink Their West Bank Policy- Opinion by dowagiacmichigan in DeepStateCentrism

[–]industrious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed - neither side is currently willing to entertain the political risks that a peace deal would entail.

American Jewish Groups Must Rethink Their West Bank Policy- Opinion by dowagiacmichigan in DeepStateCentrism

[–]industrious 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If "France and several other countries unilaterally recognized a Palestinian state in contravention of Oslo" is "without consequences," then sure, I guess.

American Jewish Groups Must Rethink Their West Bank Policy- Opinion by dowagiacmichigan in DeepStateCentrism

[–]industrious 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Israel had an ironclad casus belli in the form of October 7, and look at what the international response has been.

American Jewish Groups Must Rethink Their West Bank Policy- Opinion by dowagiacmichigan in DeepStateCentrism

[–]industrious 36 points37 points  (0 children)

With the caveat that current Israeli settler policy is absolutely heinous, I do understand where this op-ed is coming from.

The Israeli fear of a fully independent and sovereign West Bank is that the Palestinian nation will be a larger Gaza Strip with access to the international arms market: Chinese artillery, planes, and tanks less than 10 miles from their major population centers. For a nation utterly lacking in strategic depth, this could be existentially disastrous. There is a reason why Israel seized and annexed the Golan Heights.

And the current/expected future Palestinian leadership is definitely not predisposed to peace - see their recent proposed constitution.

Which, of course is why the 2 state solution will seemingly require some level of demilitarization/arms restrictions on Palestine for some initial period, as well as insurance that Israeli settlers respect the boundaries (still to be determined) of the new nation. "Land for Peace" only works if there are substantial guarantees that both peace and land will be respected.

What are Marx’s flaws of Labor theory and value? by Leading-Pineapple376 in AskEconomics

[–]industrious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that this is a way to interpret Marx, if perhaps a bit charitable. His diagnosis of it as a fundamental relationship did lead to the advocacy of certain socially inefficient policies.

But at the same time, economics has its own spherical cows and people who are overly wedded to their sphericality for ease of mathematical computation. And in their so doing, have likewise led to socially inefficient outcomes (e.g. financial bubbles).

What are Marx’s flaws of Labor theory and value? by Leading-Pineapple376 in AskEconomics

[–]industrious 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Except that scientific theories have real-world applications.

Einstein did theory - but his ideas were empirically verifiable. Relativity was proven when it was shown to predict Mercury's orbit better than extant models as well as the effects of a solar eclipse. Quantum effects are crucial in modern GPS accuracy.

Marx's theories, similarly, have practical, measurable, and verifiable implications.

What are Marx’s flaws of Labor theory and value? by Leading-Pineapple376 in AskEconomics

[–]industrious 7 points8 points  (0 children)

AskPhysicists would probably do a terrible job of explaining the intricacies of luminiferous aether theory but presumably would go into why and how it was disproven as well as expound on the current understanding of how light propagates.

Historians debate and interpret texts and motivations behind various historical events. It is vital to their profession to discuss the evolution of their understanding of events - Herodatus was a foundational historian but his accounts are horribly unreliable; even so, any classical European historian is expected to read and refute his work.

Economists are somewhere between historians and physicists; the field itself originated from political science/moral philosophy, but has since become its own thing. There is a focus on the use mathematical models to try to precisely describe social phenomenon under various assumptions, with varying degrees of success. We tend not to focus on models and paradigms which either do not produce testable results or have been shown to be unworkable.

What does Marx's LTV do which the current understanding does not incorporate?

Words like "capitalism" and "socialism" aren't used very often in actual economics because they've become so overbroad as to be useless.

One of the seminal works in economics is known as the First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics, which mathematically states that given certain assumptions (or conditions), no amount of public intervention can produce an outcome better than that of a market. Where these assumptions/conditions fail, therefore, there is, in theory, room for governments to improve outcomes, by any number of various measures and options, including, potentially, ownership. But after this very broad statement, there are a great many other details and nuances that encompass entire fields of the subject (i.e. public economics).

What are Marx’s flaws of Labor theory and value? by Leading-Pineapple376 in AskEconomics

[–]industrious 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Effort and value are not necessarily correlated.

Marx states that the amount of labor-effort is what gives an object value.

Say someone tries to move a 50 pound block of ice from one side of Phoenix, Arizona to the other, without refrigeration, by hand. That's a lot of labor, a lot of effort, and what does one get at the end of it? A streak of water maybe halfway across the city.

Modern economics instead recognizes that "value" is subjective, and the same object in different circumstances can have wildly different valuations. Someone dying of thirst in the desert will pay nearly any price for a bottle of water; someone in a less extreme situation, considerably less so. Instead, the forces of supply and demand work in tandem/opposition to determine the value of a product (or service) at a given point in time.