लिखा द्वारा Fatcheek, आज at 14:37
लिखा द्वारा ITSGG1122, 22.01.2021 at 08:12
लिखा द्वारा Andartes, 20.01.2021 at 11:44
लिखा द्वारा International, 17.01.2021 at 07:09
One fascinating thing I noticed about any debate about "socialism" in the context of US politics is that this is a word that can be defined very narrowly or very expansively depending on whatever best suits the speaker's arguments.
When the motion of debate is "should we have socialism," self-described capitalists use the narrow definition of this word, to mean the distinct set of Soviet- or PRC-aligned communist dictatorships that existed in the Cold War, and of course we shouldn't have socialism, because of course we don't want famines, or political purges, or concentration camps, or what have you that characterise these historical communist dictatorships. From that perspective, why would anyone support socialism? What kind of monster would do that?
When the motion of debate switches to "what policies characterise socialism," however, anti-socialists suddenly do a 180-degree turn and define socialism extremely broadly, to mean basically any kind of intensive state intervention in the economy. Of course Western Europe is chock full of socialist states, and since we have already established that socialism is a thing that the United States shouldn't have, it follows that the United States should avoid implementing such radical socialist policies like universal healthcare that Europeans have.
And of course self-described communists do much the same thing, only the other way around.
So instead of trying to write a substantive argument on a foundation that won't support one, I will instead ask the original poster this. When you say that the United States should have "some communism", what, exactly, is meant by "some communism"? What policies does this entail and what social changes does it imply?
Without a clear and agreed-upon definition there can be no intellectually honest discussion.
What about Chinese Communism? One party state with market economy? Since oligarchs can hijack democracies, and votes doesn't matter anymore, we could simply copy Chinese politics: they are executing their corrupted individuals while supporting infrastructure, jobs, and citizen wellbeing.
You can't deny that market-based economies are the most efficient long-term and that authoritarianism is more efficient than democracy - where goals change every 4-5 years after elections, and authoritarian goals are there as long the regime exist.
Do you realize what made the great divergence happen? One of the main factors providing the way to the revolution is the absence of fucking absolutism.
It isnt just a coincidence that this revolution started in England out of all places. The great societies of Islam and China, while being advanced where overrided in less than a century.
Unless China becomes a free society and lets loose the authoritarian government it wont ever reach its full potential nor will it ever do what the free minds of the West did.
ok bud.. don't even go there. If China didn't have a strict government the country would be a god damn disaster. I DOUBT the country would stay in one piece, and it wouldn't the superpower that it is now. A nice example of your imaginary "perfect democracy china" would be hong kong, the place where riots devasted its economy. Even in homeland America, remember the BLM Protests and the Insurrection at the Capitol? I do too..
China is a very prosperous country at the moment, and its currently leading the world in trade and technology, very much on its way to being the Global Superpower, which even Americans are scared of. After all, the tariffs say a lot about it.
लिखा द्वारा KhilafahSharia, 09.01.2021 at 06:13
This is fucking Orwellian. Trump supporters leave twitter after Trump's ban and flock around Parler. Guess what Google and Apple does?
Removes the app from their app stores xD. And people talk about free speech in America and how there's a free market competition. That's utter bullshit.
Guess what happens when Trump supporters can't vent their frustrations online- they vent them on the streets. I think that if Congress impeaches Trump next week, and it's likely that the swamp Republicans vote for it, then I expect there to be riots across America. The impeachment would ban Trump from running for office in 2024, effectively burning his future political career. Every Trump supporter sees the election fraud as a coup (from their perspective, not mine), and impeaching him will be seen as overthrowing the President.
They are so detached from the psychological reprecussions of their actions that it's ridiculous!
लिखा द्वारा ITSGG1122, 22.01.2021 at 08:12
लिखा द्वारा Andartes, 20.01.2021 at 11:44
लिखा द्वारा International, 17.01.2021 at 07:09
One fascinating thing I noticed about any debate about "socialism" in the context of US politics is that this is a word that can be defined very narrowly or very expansively depending on whatever best suits the speaker's arguments.
When the motion of debate is "should we have socialism," self-described capitalists use the narrow definition of this word, to mean the distinct set of Soviet- or PRC-aligned communist dictatorships that existed in the Cold War, and of course we shouldn't have socialism, because of course we don't want famines, or political purges, or concentration camps, or what have you that characterise these historical communist dictatorships. From that perspective, why would anyone support socialism? What kind of monster would do that?
When the motion of debate switches to "what policies characterise socialism," however, anti-socialists suddenly do a 180-degree turn and define socialism extremely broadly, to mean basically any kind of intensive state intervention in the economy. Of course Western Europe is chock full of socialist states, and since we have already established that socialism is a thing that the United States shouldn't have, it follows that the United States should avoid implementing such radical socialist policies like universal healthcare that Europeans have.
And of course self-described communists do much the same thing, only the other way around.
So instead of trying to write a substantive argument on a foundation that won't support one, I will instead ask the original poster this. When you say that the United States should have "some communism", what, exactly, is meant by "some communism"? What policies does this entail and what social changes does it imply?
Without a clear and agreed-upon definition there can be no intellectually honest discussion.
What about Chinese Communism? One party state with market economy? Since oligarchs can hijack democracies, and votes doesn't matter anymore, we could simply copy Chinese politics: they are executing their corrupted individuals while supporting infrastructure, jobs, and citizen wellbeing.
You can't deny that market-based economies are the most efficient long-term and that authoritarianism is more efficient than democracy - where goals change every 4-5 years after elections, and authoritarian goals are there as long the regime exist.
Do you realize what made the great divergence happen? One of the main factors providing the way to the revolution is the absence of fucking absolutism.
It isnt just a coincidence that this revolution started in England out of all places. The great societies of Islam and China, while being advanced where overrided in less than a century.
Unless China becomes a free society and lets loose the authoritarian government it wont ever reach its full potential nor will it ever do what the free minds of the West did.
लिखा द्वारा WHlTE, आज at 12:58
लिखा द्वारा T3mpest, आज at 09:45
लिखा द्वारा Fatcheek, आज at 09:14
लिखा द्वारा Khauman, आज at 09:06
लिखा द्वारा Fatcheek, आज at 08:43
The censorship of trump is one thing, but google and amazon fucking decided to kill parler because its dominated by conservatives. thats basically an attack on free speech.
basically, be conservative = be censored
Also, incite violence = be censored
Why not censor Twitter then? Parler didn't encourage anyone to go to the capitol and riot.
Dumbass, Twitter only needs to censor Trump. Trump also encouraged his supporters to raid the capital. Also why you even talkin bout America, you ain't even from America.
लिखा द्वारा Fatcheek, आज at 09:14
लिखा द्वारा Khauman, आज at 09:06
लिखा द्वारा Fatcheek, आज at 08:43
The censorship of trump is one thing, but google and amazon fucking decided to kill parler because its dominated by conservatives. thats basically an attack on free speech.
basically, be conservative = be censored
Also, incite violence = be censored
Why not censor Twitter then? Parler didn't encourage anyone to go to the capitol and riot.
लिखा द्वारा Khauman, आज at 09:06
लिखा द्वारा Fatcheek, आज at 08:43
The censorship of trump is one thing, but google and amazon fucking decided to kill parler because its dominated by conservatives. thats basically an attack on free speech.
basically, be conservative = be censored
Also, incite violence = be censored
लिखा द्वारा Fatcheek, आज at 08:43
The censorship of trump is one thing, but google and amazon fucking decided to kill parler because its dominated by conservatives. thats basically an attack on free speech.
basically, be conservative = be censored
लिखा द्वारा ITSGG1122, 24.01.2021 at 20:50
लिखा द्वारा Dave, 24.01.2021 at 15:00
लिखा द्वारा ITSGG1122, 24.01.2021 at 14:06
$500 a month is too little.
But what i meant to say, you do not need to pay that $150k a year.
Many companies in silicon valley just attract foreign cheap tech workers anyway.
Just look at this statistics.
https://prnt.sc/xka6dr
57% of techforce in silicon valley born outside the usa.
And this stat went to nearly 75% in 2018...
If you want to make this a serious discussion about hiring programmers then I would say, if you want to hire a foreign dev, the best value for your money is Ukraine. You can find very talented developers for around $50K USD per year.
I've hired and/or managed a lot of foreign devs in my career, and personally I have had the best success with Ukraine. Following that, Eastern Europe in general is pretty good (Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia, Romania, etc.). On the other hand Indian devs (as a whole) are the absolute worst... in my entire career I only ever found 1 Indian dev who was decent, and he charged $25 USD/hour! Not being racist, that's just being honest about what I've found through my own experience. (And yes, there are lots of other places to find good devs around the world... I'm only talking places where you can find good talent for cheap.)
So yes if I wanted to I could get a good programmer for less than $150K. Probably I could find somebody decent for as little as $50K. Sure there are cheaper devs but any less than $50K and you're very unlikely to get quality code from them.
Anyway my original point still stands... I was simply trying to say that we don't have the money to hire another programmer. $150K or $50K, it doesn't make any difference. I'm all that atWar's got, for the foreseeable future.
I agree as well, anything less than $50k isnt good.