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Believe it or not but not everyone shares your enthusiasm towards the idea of privatizing United States Postal Service.
The idea? It’s already a private corporation.
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Well, this is a forum where some degree of openmindedness is encouraged. There have been far many more economic and capital systems on this rock than just American capitalism.
I used to think it’s open mindedness but I think it’s more hubris. The other day a guy was complaining about being in jail for a time and how unfair it was that he had a criminal record. Lots of open minded people praising him. Then a new user called him out for trying to get with a 12 year old. Yikes.
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I don't know man, from the outside looking in it seems like despite this arrangement, the people doing the day to day work are fiercely competitive and they want it all. This is just an anecdote but I have seen talks where the Chinese look at the silicon valley grind culture of long working hours and sacrifice and think how can these people be so lazy? Maybe state ownership will collapse it all, maybe the coming demo…
From what I’ve seen the motivation of Chinese workers is the same as any worker - to make money.
Seeing Jack Ma come out like this makes me think things are very grim in China and I been obsessively following it for years. Historically, no country has survived without paying its government workers for more than 24 months. China has just entered its 16th month. so roughly 8 months remaining. coincidentally the new US president will be announced around then. So far the actions of Israel, Russia's confidence sugges…
wdym China is not payment its government workers?
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Aren't you presenting a false dichotomy here? Perhaps they are having their cake and eating it too, so to speak. Not to comment on the supposed economic malaise of the moment. Sometimes state-owned enterprises might be able to outperform a private structure!
It's a bit hilarious that there are attempts to convince people on a board for hackers and startup founders that state owned enterprises are great and amazing!!
We did get to the moon with "state owned enterprises" anyway...
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Aren't you presenting a false dichotomy here? Perhaps they are having their cake and eating it too, so to speak. Not to comment on the supposed economic malaise of the moment. Sometimes state-owned enterprises might be able to outperform a private structure!
When you are subsidized by a billion tax payers, you better beat the private sector! The more important question is if it is worth it, since money spent is zero sum.
Also, we could use more zero sum that redistributes wealth towards huge masses, even if that means some billionaires will have fewer billions...
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Aren't you presenting a false dichotomy here? Perhaps they are having their cake and eating it too, so to speak. Not to comment on the supposed economic malaise of the moment. Sometimes state-owned enterprises might be able to outperform a private structure!
>Sometimes state-owned enterprises might be able to outperform a private structure! But it's extremely unlikely, given how often the opposite occurs instead in historical data.
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The lie flat movement is a legitimate movement that touches upon the same problems the youth are experiencing elsewhere around the world but it appears to be a fizzling movement everywhere. Even the US equivalent of quiet quitting and utter hopelessness is waning in the US with the slow demise of the far left and right.
> Even the US equivalent of quiet quitting and utter hopelessness is waning in the US with the slow demise of the far left and right. This is all news to me.
Ignoring the age issue in the far right (not enough young people replacing the dying elders in the movement), we have repeated losses in special elections due to their stance on abortion indicating their current plan of action is not in sync with where the country is. That does not look long term promising for the movement. Either they move left or they will continue to cede power at all levels of the government.
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I don't know man, from the outside looking in it seems like despite this arrangement, the people doing the day to day work are fiercely competitive and they want it all. This is just an anecdote but I have seen talks where the Chinese look at the silicon valley grind culture of long working hours and sacrifice and think how can these people be so lazy? Maybe state ownership will collapse it all, maybe the coming demo…
No one doubts that Chinese people work incredibly long hours. They do so because there’s been a strong link between input and output. The harder you work, the wealthier you get. That has been incredibly motivating … so far. In an economy that isn’t growing quite so fast, people might not see the same returns for their labour that they did between 2001-19. They might not work as hard. That’s speculation though. What w…