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This is a silly rant. Politicians were also responsible for initially subsidizing solar to usher in the current boom. Corporations invested heavily in solar production to create th…

> I think the bigger question here is what role Chinese policy is playing in this story. Is their involvement strictly commercial? There's little government policy behind it. It's …

> In other words, a job that is traditionally considered to be a basic service of the government is now being privatized by people that nobody knows if we can really trust. How on …

A dumb conspiracy theory. Israel has mandatory conscription (barring some cases), and many of the smart ones are recruited into Unit 8200. It's not surprising that they go on to st…

Israelis constantly dominating the cybersecurity industry..damn

> We lose a democratic element of corporate America by surrendering our votes to a couple big custodians that really don't care either way. By design, though, the people who invest…

True, I was referring to the modern context of aid, not colonial times with extractive economies. I don’t think it’s fair to apply the modern concept of aid to previous eras of col…

> Not giving any aid today means condemning masses to death. It’s not the responsibility of foreigners to feed other countries’ populations. Those countries have governments made u…

Agreed. Other countries should follow the same path instead of depending on foreign aid to solve their issues.

> On the international stage, if you have to put your hand out for assistance, it means you have no say . It is a big advantage for Singapore not to have to beg for aid. We have no…

We’re likely in agreement. What Haiti needs is investment in domestic industries to be competitive in a capitalist world. These investments can be provided by foreigners, but it’s …

No one disputes that Errol Musk had money (including Elon himself), but, as the link illustrates, it was from an engineering business and not from apartheid mines as implied by the…

Ignorant opinion. The mine was in Zambia and had incredibly low output. There was no fortune made there. They’re many legitimate things to criticize about Musk. No need to cook up …

Because it’s true. Aid makes governments less accountable to their people and more accountable to donors. It has made many countries refuse to create robust healthcare/education/mi…

Do you have anything better to offer them? Because Malaysia can definitely not build these data centers without foreign investment.. As someone from a certain poor country, I can a…

> There were other solutions possible besides austerity. What solutions? How does one fix a hyperinflated country without painful reforms? Millei made it clear that pre-election th…

I guess we should ignore statistics and focus on anecdotes when making economic decisions.

Argentina is an economy weakened by Peronism, an ideology that constantly interferes with the free markets, with excessive regulations that incentivize rent-seeking and unproductiv…

Are you insinuating it's the West's fault?

Past events aren't a definite excuse for today's situations. Yeah, the U.S. interfered in many countries, including some that are super successful today, e.g., Taiwan and South Kor…