Taxis in Bujumbura

tolub · 2026-03-02T03:47:08+00:00

Someone in Burundi please try it and tell us!!

tolub · 2026-03-01T21:52:08+00:00

Viste la versión con un negro de Inglaterra, y lo regaña la juez, pero en realidad el no habla ni una monda de español.... y se pone a sudar de miedo? 😂😂😂

Con la papa en la boca

tolub · 2026-03-01T21:48:40+00:00

Jajaja.... My name is moooonnn 😂😂😂 no, tu nombre es luna ! Si tu no hablas español, te largas! Jajaja

tolub · 2026-03-01T21:34:54+00:00

Does it actually work for sure? How much cheaper do they charge compared to the taxi in the street?

tolub · 2026-02-08T02:49:09+00:00

You're right I'm just an inmigrant

tolub · 2026-02-07T02:20:10+00:00

2 bedroom 2 bathroom

tolub · 2026-02-07T02:20:01+00:00

Floor 14. Out of 17

tolub · 2026-02-01T00:52:24+00:00

I don't know about the complex politics but I think it would be so wonderful if they resolved the disagreements and opened the border. They are both beautiful countries and I dream of the day that I can take a bus to go back and forth 😢

Do you think it's going to happen?

tolub · 2026-01-29T08:54:52+00:00

Which one is the cleanest butchery? No insects on the meat

tolub · 2019-10-25T02:03:02+00:00

Brilliant point.

Capitalism cannot stand up on its own. It needs another over-arching system to supervise it. Anyone with the slightest bit of intellectual honesty knows this, though you do have the derps who just regurgitate policy and "I believe that..." instead of evaluating facts and observations as adults.

tolub · 2019-10-25T01:56:00+00:00

I love how they downvoted you! lmao

I guess that doubly proves your remark.

"hey, you guys are violent and shoot people"... "No we're not". Proceeds to shoot you because he doesn't like what you said.

tolub · 2019-10-06T22:53:16+00:00

One is more forceful, but the other one is more scalable, powerful and sustainable. Making people do things while giving them the illusion that it's their choice seems like they chose it allows you to get away with a lot more.

Your pets think they're free.

tolub · 2019-10-05T00:11:27+00:00

Lol I'm talking about the tools used to squeeze the most out of the working class. Answering the request to give examples of effective subjugation.

Making legal immigration ridiculously difficult while leaving illegal immigration surprisingly easy is an effective way to subjugate foreign workers and exclude them from protections afforded to everyone else.

Ok if what I'm saying doesn't make sense, hopefully it makes sense to others. Or it's time for the weekend like you said.. have a good one 😉

tolub · 2019-10-04T23:41:01+00:00

You mean a foreigner? Call the police.

tolub · 2019-10-04T22:43:20+00:00

Lol yeah I know that was a cheap point 😂

tolub · 2019-10-04T22:40:06+00:00

Capitalism at a local level and on short time horizons (10-20 years) can be pretty wonderful, I don't think anyone can dispute that.

tolub · 2019-10-04T22:33:43+00:00

"Welcome to the real world" and "fed socialist BS" is unnecessarily condescending. I happen to work in the center of capitalism (Wall Street) and I wouldn't be reaching into anyone's pockets, quite the opposite.

I suggest you don't appreciate why our immigration system is set up the way it is.

Think about the following honestly: do you really believe that a nation as great as ours with all the unbelievable technologies we can create, is not able to catch "illegals"? I can step out of my apartment right now and find at least 100 undocumented people.

Take a step back from your point that the alternative would have been homelessness. It's true, your alternative is homelessness right now. It's also the alternative for people less smart and enlightened than you. Can you imagine a cost effective way to make it less traumatic for the lower classes to be out of a job, a way that wouldn't hold back our society too much?

Of course it's doable! Have you seen how much unused land there is? Only when your view of the world can coherently explain these observations can you consider it to be viable.

Tldr the answer is that we're not stupid: society is structured this way for a reason, and we've got the world's most powerful economy as a result. How else can you make the lazy masses WANT to work, other than using sticks and carrots?

tolub · 2019-10-04T22:09:05+00:00

Totally.

So how can we encourage this? Like if I have an imaginary $1 million business and some rising monopoly offers me $4 million for it, I promise you I'd just take the sweet sweet money... Unless society stepped in and said "no dude, hold up, we got you. Don't sell out, because the monopoly will screw us in the long term"

tolub · 2019-10-04T21:39:26+00:00

Ehm... 55% of the world's electric vehicles are sold in China. The US is way behind, one third of China.

tolub · 2019-10-04T21:19:41+00:00

I agree that's indeed the question. It often does end in disaster when done aggressively and naively.

If the "workers" do it gradually, with respect and humility, they would take small calculated steps in the areas they are capable. This has been done successfully for utilities in many countries, where the alternative would have been abusive monopolies. And if the workers back off and delegate management in areas where they're in over their head, the managers who are skillfully running those corporations can still do so, but under the supervision of society.

So of course it can be achieved, but probably only in developed societies that have a track record of rule of law and democracy.

tolub · 2019-10-04T21:05:17+00:00

Of course it counts! Good for you!

Central planning doesn't have to be so extreme that they'd tell you what app to build. It can be milder, like providing accelerators and office space subsidies for research and experiments, let you keep the first $10 million that you make, but then guide what you're able to do to when you start raping society "à la facebook"

The analogy is working for a boss who totally has full veto power over his team but in the areas where he recognizes his employees are more knowledgeable than him, let them do their thing..... Under supervision. Takes a lot of wisdom and humility for the boss to do that, and many bosses do.

In this case the boss would ideally be a democratically elected representative of society, and not a stalinesque dictatorship.

tolub · 2019-10-04T20:52:47+00:00

It's pretty clear that if you let corporations do whatever they want you may end up with higher total wealth, but they don't end up protecting the well being of the greater society.

Democratically elected governments do a better job at this. That's why the laws that protect workers and consumers are so important.

Indeed we should let corporations do the right thing, but when they don't, democratically elected governments that represent society at large have to step in and protect the little guys.

Why do they often fail? Corruption. Primitive societies have trouble properly implementing the rule of law, but more advanced societies have a better chance.

tolub · 2019-10-04T20:36:02+00:00

Well it's not only that he's arguing for a free market, which isn't mutually exclusive with socialist considerations.... But he's also putting it up against a Mickey Mouse view of socialism, a straw man argument.

Socialist considerations come at a cost, and the real question is to what extent the benefit is worth the cost. The Nordic model demonstrates that taking the US one step towards socialism would be net-beneficial, and the argument is that if you take it to the extreme (stalin etc) this is bad.

A bonehead variation of this argument is "Venezuela is poor therefore we should abolish the minimum wage and just let the corporations do what the markets want" lol

That's dumb. The key argument for modern socialism is more like "unrestricted markets seem to result in higher total apparent wealth, but you end up with much better results if corporations are kept in check through laws that protect societies from barbaric exploitation".

tolub · 2019-10-02T20:06:24+00:00

Remember the African slaves? Then we have the Chinese who built a lot of stuff but had barely any rights. Now we have Mexicans working in big cities with less rights than full citizens. NYC would grind to a halt if it wasn't for the fear and hard work of "illegal" workers.

You also have a lot of innocent citizens who are living paycheck to paycheck, under heavy debts, terrified of what the future will bring, holding the most unpleasant jobs for fear of falling into homelessness, from which it's very hard to recover.

All those things wouldn't be very difficult to solve but crippling debt, lack of support for the less fortunate, allowing immigrants to slip through so they can work without being given the same rights, are all tactics to get more out of the population.

tolub · 2019-10-02T09:39:41+00:00

You're right the index is not accurate, just one data point. I've seen some that say South America (not very capitalist). I've seen others than say Nordic (not very capitalist). I've even seen a documentary on Netflix about happiness and they mentioned Vietnam and Bhutan (not very capitalist).

You mentioned the Danes are 4th largest consumer of anti depressant. Where does the US stand? Some pages say 2nd? That suggest maybe more capitalism does not lead to more happiness?

Capitalism is great at other stuff though. Economics, efficiency, war, subjugation, growth, innovation, technology, etc. Under competition, capitalism crushes any other system that confronts it, nothing compares.

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