It’s lib because the article’s gripe is how only the founders become millionaires, asking for mild reforms to the current system rather than a new one. The general message is arguing for other important startup employees to also get more venture capital funds. It’s less of “hey this whole startup scene is corrupt” and more of “hey it’s kind of shady that founders get this much money please also give engineers that much money”.

“Millenials, Gen Z unaware of price paid for cheap ‘green revolution crops’. They should stop eating to prevent ocean dead zones”

When the entire supply chain of a critical commodity has serious issues, you can’t fix it on the demand side.

Yeah, I’d venture to guess most people alive in China today spent their childhoods in rural areas based on the urbanization trend. There’s been a lot of recent progress in marriage law within the last year or so. The gist is something like for a woman to divorce her husband you needed evidence of him wronging you and had to wait a cooldown period. Those rules have been relaxed in a drive to combat domestic violence.

One thing people haven’t touched on is how socialism could be more effective at fighting obesity. At the end of the day, farmers produce surplus calories for the rich world far beyond the per-capita caloric needs. Sellers are able to create demand so farmers can get paid by making high calorie foods unsatiating and ubiquitous, which creates an energy surplus as the population level. An obesity epidemic is implicitly a policy decision.

Production could be planned to meet caloric and nutritional needs for the entire population if a society looks past the profit motive. Furthermore, certain food ultraprocessing methods could be better-controlled to contain foods that are basically poison for the body’s energy balance

Thanks for taking the time to write this out! I really appreciate it. Having secure physical resources that are immediately useful is a good idea, I’ll think of what I can do to that extent.

Imagine hoarding the entire world’s surplus value just to use it all up to build boats mcmansions and country clubs for the aristocracy. The faster such a grotesque society crumbles, the better for humanity and life itself. The perfidious yankees will pay the price.

That’s a great point, I hadn’t thought of that

What do you mean by dprk route with bitcoin?

1. this is just some random guy on reddit
2. you can see on this site by clicking on “map” and then clicking on former Warsaw pact countries that the data here are cherry-picked. e.g. Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Lithuania all had life expectancy drops that bottomed-out in the 90s.
3. this is essentially the same argument of north Korean vs south Korean development. you cannot use either case as proof of the success or failure of one system. some eastern european countries did well after the fall of the USSR because the western powers invested so heavily in their success

It’s true. I think Chinese social media’s tone towards the west is “yes we are surpassing them in some regards now, but we cannot underestimate the west’s power or treat it as a monolith because there are good people everywhere, so we must keep learning and working hard.” Such a mentality could not be more diametrically opposed to youtube channels with millions of subscribers that post once a week tearing down China in the most cynical and diabolical ways possible, with viewers doing nothing but cheerleading the narrative. In the long-run, this racist enmity will be a large factor in the downfall of western civilization.

same

I think he’s Josef Gregory Mahoney based on what shows up on 百度 and 微博. He’s a Professor of Politics and International Relations and Director of the International Graduate Program in Politics at East China Normal University. It’s not a C9 university (Chinese Ivy Leage), but it’s a 985, which is top 39

I can’t find this video anymore, but I watched something with this guy who elucidated a lot of this. The main points were that a country in the global south is likely to do some kind of cheap solar irradiation management to turn down the heat, which is a couple million a year, so countries like Bangladesh or Venezuela could do it relatively cheaply.

I think the main gist of the lecture was the cynical idea that “people loot before they starve”. So, central america will likely see migrations into the states and canada in a way that we are only seeing the beginnings of today. Right now the border is open because capitalists like cheap labor. in the future, they might close the border, but apparently the only way we know how to do that effectively is through the credible threat of killing those who trespass.

Furthermore, the idea was that europe will be extremely divided since the sahara will park itself on spain and italy, so that extreme desertification will cause those landmasses to be abandoned, which will be a problem for parts of west eurasia that are further north

I hope you’re right. I am probably just in a filter bubble on yt, but seeing organic content (i.e. not spooks) give this commentary about toronto contrasting with this commentary about China within such a short period (on a western platform!) seems to be a leading indicator that reality is catching up with media perception

This is still a hot take in most western circles. I really hope that tiktok turns up the propaganda now that it’s going to be banned anyway, especially during an election year to make more people see videos like this.

My vibes-based analysis is that Japan is a US ally, and it still took something like 20 years for a majority of westerners to think of it as a nice place. China will be subject to relentless propaganda, so I think it’s probably going to be around 2030 or later when most westerners realize China is a nice place.

It’s a pity to see 西方人小看中国. I guess the silver lining is that with racist western chauvinism clouding the vision of imperialists, they will continue delusional policies that underestimate China and overestimate their own capability, which is ultimately a soft strategic advantage for China.

It’s crazy because China has essentially created public transit infrastructure that is everything western transit nerds want. All the discourse about more trains, denser development, multimodal transit, accessible transit etc. has already happened in some Chinese cities. Still lots of problems (e.g. aggregate traffic fatalities), but it’s incredible stuff getting done.

wow check out this fun genocide travel vlog in Xinjiang ✌️🤪! watch to see ebil ccp oppress the poor yogurt people ☹️. did you know westerners can just go there and see for themselves without any special permit? This guy is German and went visa-free. Cw: mosques, halal food, bazaars

I don’t live there but I came to complain about how Bentonville, Arkansas (where walmart is headquartered) is one of the friendliest places for cyclers in the US. Why? Because one of the heirs to the walmart fortune likes cycling. Nothing says freedom like billionaires planning your economy based around their personal hobbies!

So is the idea here that the US is not Tsarist Russia because the working class in the US benefits from superprofits and settler-colonialism, whereas Tsarist Russia actually had revolutionary peasants? Same with pre-Revolution Vietnam

I think this kind of meme is the best for lib agitation. Most don’t need to be convinced that people are more important than profits. Now we just need to find a way to insert the idea about just what kind of economic system prioritizes people over profits…