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Re: Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam

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Post by theorique »

gabriel34 wrote: post #95
theorique wrote: post #22

Hope this doesn't push the release date forward. (edit: Irony, people. Irony.)

Without clues such as facial expression, tone of voice and knowing who is it that you are talking to irony is indistinguishable from a normal statement. You could try to exaggerate to the point that it would be ridiculous for a sane person to assume you are serious, but it's not reliable. Avoid Irony/Sarcasm on the internet.

Yeah, I think I need to use an explicit "/s" tag.

No one can read how hilarious I am in real life when it's in the generic font.

Re: Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam

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Post by Mikeb85 »

coldtea wrote: post #56
llamataboot wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah yes, the wonderful world of libertarian thought. Where sweatshops to make cheap shit for rich countries is a win-win.

> Hell, even Paul Krugman doesn't label the issue as black and white. As if Paul Krugman is the pinnacle of radical thought on the issue? He is a Keynesian -- which I guess counts for something like "far left" in the US.

> He is a Keynesian

As is pretty much every economist. Neoclassical economics (which borrows many of Keynes' ideas) dominates modern economic thought. 'Austrians' seem to exist only on the internet...

Re: Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam

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Post by coldtea »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #122
coldtea wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Hell, even Paul Krugman doesn't label the issue as black and white. As if Paul Krugman is the pinnacle of radical thought on the issue? He is a Keynesian -- which I guess counts for something like "far left" in the US.

> He is a Keynesian As is pretty much every economist. Neoclassical economics (which borrows many of Keynes' ideas) dominates modern economic thought. 'Austrians' seem to exist only on the internet...

I'm from Europe. We have much more wild flavors.

Re: Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam

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Post by Joeboy »

exodust wrote: post #124
Joeboy wrote: post #71

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Still not a very funny response to the recent death of eight people.

Except that nobody died.

http://phunukieuviet.vn/phap-luat/cong-nhan-dung-do-voi-bao-... says they did, as did the original submission title. But yes, it now seems like the reports of their deaths may have been exaggerated.

Re: Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam

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Post by ForHackernews »

mathToCS wrote: post #105
ForHackernews wrote: post #62

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Surely it must be possible to have economic development in poor countries without sweatshop-level exploitation.

Care to name an example from the last 100 years?

Elsewhere I gave the example of Rwanda attempting to do this: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/04/paul-kagame-e...

Re: Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam

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Post by pizza234 »

Symmetry wrote: post #108
caoilte wrote: post #78

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> China has reached the stage in economic development that people are moving to higher skilled and higher paying jobs. Yeah... 'caus that worked for Mexico... can China look forward to a descent into drug traficking fueled civil war now?

It's actually working pretty well for most Mexicans, just not the minority who live near the US border.

With "working well", you mean, dozens how thousands of violent kills over the last years in the entire country, routine murdering of journalists and policemen, and essentially total corruption of the institutions?

I wouldn't define that exactly working well.

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