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California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy

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Re: California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy

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Post by tkel »

zdragnar wrote: post #58
refurb wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While a low effort comment, it does touch on an important topic. Imagine if CA was run with the kind of efficiency that Singapore or South Korea was run. Clean, safe streets. Modern infrastructure. Instead we get a state government that is going to waste the goose that laid the golden egg. The high taxes paid disappear in a black hole centered in Sacramento. CA reminds me of New Jersey. Other states used to be jealou…

Panhandling / begging and sleeping in public places is punishable with prison time (assuming you can't pay the massive fine) in Singapore. California wouldn't be California if it was run like Singapore or if it had the 9-9 chaebol work culture like South Korea.

Great idea, eradicating visible poverty from public spaces by putting people in cages and punishing them for being poor, I think the Nazi party would like to have a friendly word with you.

I bet you also think jails are a "housing program".

Re: California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy

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Post by fifilura »

xtiansimon wrote: post #99
fifilura wrote: post #42

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I don't want the US to break up. But I wonder if it wouldn't be more healthy for you if the states grew a bit more independent. It would give the president less power to decide exactly how schools and universities should be run or would open up for social welfare reforms in the states that want it.

> “But I wonder if it wouldn't be more healthy for you if the states grew a bit more independent.” Land borders and water rights. I don’t see it working out.

Water rights have been regulated across borders forever. And same thing with land borders. EU has it, and people don't move as much as you expect.

Re: California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy

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Post by wordofx »

suraci wrote: post #90
wordofx wrote: post #28

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Why?

I suppose it’s because there’s a political massacre happening there. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3306215/tai... https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E7%BD%B7%E5%85%8D (Chinese) https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202503280015

Doesn’t look like political massacre.

Re: California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy

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Post by robocat »

perilunar wrote: post #95
platevoltage wrote: post #46

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I wouldn't say the US Senate and Electoral College make much sense.

In Australia we had a Prime Minister publicly refer to our Senate as “unrepresentative swill”.

Try New Zealand. 40% of our members of parliament are selected by the parties, without true voter representation.

  Under MMP, 120 MPs are elected to Parliament — 72 are elected by just the voters in individual electorates around the country and 48 are from political party lists

Re: California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy

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Post by ninetyninenine »

Ylpertnodi wrote: post #102
ninetyninenine wrote: post #16

The title almost implies that CA had some unnatural acceleration to put it past japan. I think it's more that japan has been declining. This won't last once the US population starts declining. We've been held afloat by immigration but even that's running out. Japan was ahead of the curve in terms of modernity. Looking at them is almost like looking at our own future.

>We've been held afloat by immigration but even that's running out. 'Running out' - cute euphemism for 'you're not welcome', and very much worser: 'deportation'.

No I seriously did not mean that. Basically global birth rates are declining. You can offset this decline in local microcosms via immigration but if global birth rates are declining inevitably the external sources will dry up. Lots of immigrants from say China coming to the US right? This props the US population up, but logically speaking Chinese birth rates are declining... So that means immigration won't last.

In fact, when immigration begins drying up, the US will become much much more open to it.

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Post by [deleted] »

eGP9jDq_nw wrote: post #76
captainmuon wrote: post #41

It's funny that the list includes both California and the US. It would be interesting to compare economies of the same scale, regardless of legal status: If you are considering the US and China, maybe you should include the whole of the EU. And if you are looking at Germany, Japan, ... It makes sense to not only include California, but also to split up other countries. I'm curious how high up Guandong or Shanghai wou…

>The fact that the US and China show up as single countries (and not "continents"/regions) whereas the EU shows up as a bunch of "small" countries is source of a lot of inferiority complex in Europe. is it? I've only ever seen USians push the "country of europe" thing

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