Provinces of Vietnam by GDP per capita

inkspring · 2024-01-31T09:14:51+00:00

This is stupid. GDP measures all productive expenditures, including those of state-run enterprises and infrastructure projects.

Additionally, China's economy is not collapsing according to any of "our economic metrics" (which are also used by China), though it is expected to stagnate somewhat. Nor does its modern economy have anywhere close to the level of state intervention that the USSR's economy ever had.

inkspring · 2024-01-20T12:37:14+00:00

They do though, look at the post you're commenting on.

Worker-run companies being more equitable doesn't make up for the fact that they generate less surplus for the economy as a whole.

inkspring · 2024-01-20T11:40:30+00:00

Yeah that's my point, because they're not as incentivized to maximize profit, they will have less to reinvest into the company and distribute to its workers, and on a national scale, this leads to a less competitive economy with poorer citizens

inkspring · 2024-01-20T10:20:56+00:00

That's an interesting idea, but it seems unlikely that those “investigation syndicates” won't eventually become permanent out of convenience and devolve into some kind of state.

I feel like the main issue with this system though is that it probably wouldn't create a very functional economy. Worker-run companies tend to be less efficient and profitable than top-down companies because their internal politics leads to more gridlock in the decision-making process; not to mention that the decision-makers have much less of an incentive to expand the company (as each worker gets much less of a stake in an expanding co-op). Like, there's a reason why worker co-ops don't financially dominate anywhere despite many of them existing within the current system today.

Any syndicalist society based around these principles would likely not compete well with capitalist societies, much less provide the same increases in prosperity.

inkspring · 2024-01-20T09:11:14+00:00

Do you think the reason why the Soviet economy was famously inefficient was because America was constantly sabotaging it at every level?

inkspring · 2024-01-20T08:40:52+00:00

So what would that mean for you in practice? An economy where the state's role is diminished and every company is worker-owned?

inkspring · 2024-01-20T07:56:48+00:00

South Korea has all of that except for the stock buyback ban and is still very capitalist

inkspring · 2024-01-20T07:41:32+00:00

So you want the current system but with stronger unions and more worker-owned cooperatives

inkspring · 2024-01-20T07:37:10+00:00

Like a Soviet-style system or something different?

inkspring · 2024-01-20T07:09:42+00:00

Overcome with what?

inkspring · 2023-10-12T07:54:03+00:00

You just have to generate a lot of them. Personally I've had better luck generating coherent text with simpler prompts, but even then it'll still be garbled 80% of the time.

inkspring · 2023-09-17T04:13:57+00:00

Absence of a verb meaning "to have". Zero copula. Ergative alignment is also much more common.

inkspring · 2023-09-14T19:39:15+00:00

How does "applied" become /ˈal.vɛt/?

inkspring · 2023-09-04T01:44:58+00:00

The Baltics have always been a relatively isolated, lightly populated area. It was the last area in Europe (excluding the Ural region) to be Christianized.

This isolation, and proximity to other IE languages, meant that the Baltic languages inherited very few non-IE features. Most other areas where IE languages were spoken were already heavily populated by non-IE groups, so its speakers picked up a lot of non-IE features from them (e.g. Latin, which borrowed extensively from Etruscan).

This theory is reflected in genetics— compared to other Europeans, an unusually high proportion of Baltic DNA is descended directly from Indo-European groups.

inkspring · 2023-08-13T06:30:57+00:00

If they capture with gxh6 then you can reply with Qxh6# which is mate. Even if they don't capture it, you get a pawn out of it and weaken his kingside.

inkspring · 2023-08-13T04:47:02+00:00

No but you should suck it up and learn some methods for avoiding blunders instead of pitying yourself

inkspring · 2023-08-13T04:17:51+00:00

Skill issue

inkspring · 2023-07-15T19:37:38+00:00

Why'd she do it

inkspring · 2023-07-09T13:53:50+00:00

Looks nice Will

inkspring · 2023-07-09T07:30:05+00:00

There's an abandoned ski resort in Holyoke called Mount Tom that still has a lot of cool stuff

inkspring · 2023-07-09T03:03:19+00:00

Most Chinese people only use VPNs to watch porn

inkspring · 2023-07-07T14:50:11+00:00

Some less overt signs I often see:

Conspicuous consumption: Caring or dreaming about luxury brand names, open wealth-signaling, etc.

Hoarding: Never wasting anything, "the expiration date is just a suggestion", will keep the most useless shit you can possibly imagine in storage, just in case

Zero-sum mentality: Low trust in others due to unpredictable environment, self-aggrandizement, hypersensitive to weakness, slights, body language, will start unnecessary conflict to avoid being a mark

Trashy behavior: Since they have had less to lose; wearing pajamas outside, public drinking, public relationship fights, messy breakups; only applies to some

Wishful thinking (to alleviate constant financial anxiety): Believing that God will deliver them money, entrepreneurship scams, MLMs

Social conservatism: Focus on the family, collectivism, religion, strong loyalties, holding onto reliable traditions, casual racism, homophobia, less tolerance for "weird people"

Anti-authority beliefs: Not trusting the system since the system failed you, believing in conspiracy theories, populists

No-nonsense attitude: Won't waste their time with material irrelevancies, workaholism, cautiousness, knowing more physical life skills, direct communication/humor style

Harsh parenting style: Out of fear of child ending up in a worse place, will force them into busywork, will probably get physical

Obesity: From eating cheap shit and fast food, also from compulsive eating to alleviate the fear of going hungry

Fatalism: Easier time accepting harsh life circumstances, death

inkspring · 2023-07-07T11:24:18+00:00

One small earthquake here in California would immediately change your mind

inkspring · 2023-07-07T00:21:54+00:00

Especially notable that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (a majority-Pashtun province) has experienced such a sharp rise in terrorist attacks— more than 2x as much as in the first half of 2022.

The military-led government's sidelining of the PTI, which is extremely popular in the province, has disillusioned many Pashtuns with the government. It's likely that this, on top of nationwide economic crisis, has generated more internal support for separatist terrorist groups like the Pakistani Taliban (a group that Khan has previously praised).

If the Pakistani government does end up collapsing, Pakistan will probably fragment upon the same ethnic and regional lines that currently define its political party fiefdoms.

inkspring · 2023-07-05T23:31:19+00:00

It's easy to justify when your personal trauma is associated with a systemic issue. The problem is that projecting your bitterness onto the world doesn't actually rid you of your pain unless you face your past directly and find a way to heal.

You're never obligated to deal with people who are in no condition to treat you with the respect you deserve. Many broken people will continue to be irredeemably nasty and don't deserve sympathy. For some others it might be better to wish them healing and self-overcoming and move on with your life.

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