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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #339
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #337

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> I've read a bit and I think the problem with russia was not the communism You've read the wrong bits. Before the WW1 Russia had a booming cultural and scientific spheres, was undergoing a rapid industrialization and had a lot of philosophical schools and movements. All was hampered by an ineffective and inadequate authoritarian rule, but the human capital was there and rapidly closing the gaps to leading economies.…

I would happily read sources that prove this as being false Or at least the closest paragraph in terms of timeline with the birth of Soviet russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Censorship_(Russian_... But even seeing at what's happening now, you have a rogue state, made of oligarchs, killing journalists, and I guess it's hardly communism to be blamed, I think happening in Russia was the worst thing that cou…

There sure was censorship. Most famous russian poet Aleksander Pushkin was even personally censored by the Tzar. But burning books (as in, theatrically staging a ritual of burning offending books) - no, that didn't happen. Offending books were simply confiscated and likely left to rot in some warehouse..

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #290
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #194

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The thing is that you guys from Russia have started thinking that you're the solo holder of human sufference, I come from Southern Italy with Mafia and absent government, where rich get richer, kids play on the street surrounded by heroin needles, all with few castles of rich people being the kings among the shit, so yeah I won't dare to tell you how entitled you are to your ideas, but probably if the people that too…

The proper solution is not to rob the rich under the cheering applause of people like you, but to make poor people more wealthy.

Yeah it's a shame that no one thought about fighting inequality making workers wealthier so far, thank God there are people like you that enlighten us, you're also one of those who found that guns don't shot people but it's people that shot people, right?

If the solution is that then why the rich oppose the increase of minimum wage? What should be the solution to making workers wealthier without touching the bosses? The stock market? After all the crashes and wealth theft of funds? Do you guys ever connect the brain before typing?

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

vidarh wrote: post #364
evgen wrote: post #348

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If you are not completely intellectually-stunted then you might actually know a bit about Russian history of the period. While few would excuse the later actions of Lenin or Stalin, the people who actually revolted against the Tsar had seriously justifiable reasons for doing so and given what I know about the time and place I would like to think that if I were in their place I would have joined them in putting the ru…

By the time of the Bolshevik coup, the Tsar had been in house arrest after the February Revolution for months. The February Revolution was justified. The Bolshevik coup was not.

And there was another battle for power between Bolsheviks and mensheviks that took place, but as i said a couple of replies below, is inequality fighting only possible under communism?

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Post by heavyset_go »

DonHopkins wrote: post #61
locallost wrote: post #46

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There are tons of limitations to what you can do with your property. E.g. you can own land but can't build a house if the land is not zoned for it. Even the meaning of property has changed over the centuries. It's no longer acceptable to own a human being, which was a contested idea not too long ago. It's the people that make a society that decide what they want the rules to be. Good for the people of Amsterdam that…

If it's no longer acceptable to own a human being, that's going to be a problem for the gimp training and service industry in Amsterdam. https://www.nobleprog.nl/en/gimp/training/amsterdam >Gimp Training in Amsterdam >Online or onsite, instructor-led live Gimp training courses demonstrate through interactive discussion and hands-on practice the fundamentals and advanced topics of Gimp and Gimpshop. >Gimp training is…

Mix ups like this are why I don't mention my experience with the GNU Image Manipulation Program[1] offline.

[1] https://www.gimp.org/

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #373
vidarh wrote: post #364

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By the time of the Bolshevik coup, the Tsar had been in house arrest after the February Revolution for months. The February Revolution was justified. The Bolshevik coup was not.

And there was another battle for power between Bolsheviks and mensheviks that took place, but as i said a couple of replies below, is inequality fighting only possible under communism?

There was no "battle for power" between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. It was a political discussion between two blocks inside the party long before it took power.

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #372
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #290

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The proper solution is not to rob the rich under the cheering applause of people like you, but to make poor people more wealthy.

Yeah it's a shame that no one thought about fighting inequality making workers wealthier so far, thank God there are people like you that enlighten us, you're also one of those who found that guns don't shot people but it's people that shot people, right? If the solution is that then why the rich oppose the increase of minimum wage? What should be the solution to making workers wealthier without touching the bosses?…

Because despite what you think, people doing business aren't actually that rich. When you chant socialist crap like "bosses get rich by stealing wealth from workers" [1], you casually omit that many businesses are scraping the bottom of the barrel to keep workers employed (as in putting the food in the tables) in the first place. And that mandatory increasing workers' wages would result in their immediate termination from the job because it would no longer be sustainable, putting laid off workers on welfare.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28905425

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #376
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it's a shame that no one thought about fighting inequality making workers wealthier so far, thank God there are people like you that enlighten us, you're also one of those who found that guns don't shot people but it's people that shot people, right? If the solution is that then why the rich oppose the increase of minimum wage? What should be the solution to making workers wealthier without touching the bosses?…

Because despite what you think, people doing business aren't actually that rich. When you chant socialist crap like "bosses get rich by stealing wealth from workers" [1], you casually omit that many businesses are scraping the bottom of the barrel to keep workers employed (as in putting the food in the tables) in the first place. And that mandatory increasing workers' wages would result in their immediate termination…

Those businesses scraping the bottom of the barrel can disappear if their business model is weak, it's not that every one is supposed to be a business owner, so that they don't create unfair competition towards more capable business owners

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Post by dragonwriter »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #375
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #373

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And there was another battle for power between Bolsheviks and mensheviks that took place, but as i said a couple of replies below, is inequality fighting only possible under communism?

There was no "battle for power" between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. It was a political discussion between two blocks inside the party long before it took power.

> There was no “battle for power” between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. It was a political discussion between two blocks inside the party long before it took power.

That’s completely false. While they were at one point two blocs in the same party, the dispute was never resolved, and it split into two different parties before the overthrow of the monarchy, and continued to have conflict through the revolutionary period culminating in the Mensheviks being banned by the Bolshevik-led regime in 1921, and a supposed attempt to restore the party was the notional basis for one of the earlier of Stalin’s purges of the 1930s.

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Post by mmarq »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #140
jacquesm wrote: post #133

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I realize this, even so, for Amsterdam it was a very much needed reprieve.

So you work hard to make your city to become one of the major tourist destinations in the world, who bring in a lot of money and help the local business flourish, and then need a reprieve from that? Kinda counterproductive, no?

Tourism is for the largest part an extremely low value added activity, for which location is the most important factor. So the owner of the hotel makes millions and everybody else makes peanuts.

The very last thing we should work hard to achieve is turning cities into major tourist destinations.

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Post by anitil »

anm89 wrote: post #368
AlwaysRock wrote: post #266

I'm a power user of Airbnb. I have never disliked a service as much that I pay continue to pay for other than LinkedIn. Both of these are because I have/had little choice. What it all comes down to is getting a shitting experience and paying a premium for it. I have a 30+ day stay that had been booked close to 6 months in advanced canceled 7 days before my stay because the user sold their house. Airbnb said they woul…

Looking for long term stays on airbnb is an absolute minefield. Yeah the owner should be forced to pay to put you up in a hotel of your choice if they optionally choose to cancel on short notice. > I'm a power user of Airbnb. I have never disliked a service as much that I pay continue to pay for other than LinkedIn As someone who has more or less been living out of Airbnbs for 5 years as as digital nomad I couldn't a…

> living out of Airbnbs for 5 years as as digital nomad

Don't you find this stressful? Or are you just used to living with a bit of uncertainty?

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