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There's two things that support your comment:
1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
2 the goverment is made up of people voted/supported by people, not some sepparate entity
Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike
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Re: Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike
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One day, hopefully we'll be rich enough to do this and not have it be a mess. Fullly automated luxury space communism is the goal.
Don't keep your hopes up, in the US military spending will keep eating most of all surplus, but on the upside you'll have the most genocidal nuclear weapons of all countries on Earth!
What 'surplus' is that? It appears to me there is a deficit running into the trillions, every single year.
For comparison: the US military budget is apparently around 0.7 trillion.
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Seems very ambitious for such a modest union, 1/36 of the working age population is a bit small if you're going to demand nationalisation. I guess this is one of these framing devices to make their real objective seem more palatable?
3.5% Rule. You only need 1/30th of the population to overthrow a government through economic non participation.
Interesting I hadn't heard of that before, but I found a bit more information here:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35...
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Well the article pretty clearly spells out the reasons, chief among them, you just need to read it >Abolish “irregular work” (part-time, temporary or contract labor with little or no benefits) and extend labor protections to all workers Or maybe a fucking tv show told them to do it...
That could make so much work and so many industries just impossible... If that wasn't possible, i could never be a programmer and i could never build my business later. None of my world would exist. I have no idea what i'd even do.
Why couldn't you be a programmer? Does your code stop working if workers have better protection?
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In some countries with absurdly high house prices, I think some level of nationalisation of housing is an eventual inevitability. Much like Seoul, places like Sydney are so expensive that unless you already own a house, or are eventually going to inherit one, no amount of hard work or education can reliably get you into the market. Entry level prices within 25 miles of the city are around A$1.5m for a detached house,…
It's worth noting most housing in Singapore is state-owned
And yet Singapore has low taxes (by some considered even a tax haven) and is not a welfare state. That is by design, LKY having been a big supporter of personal responsibility.
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And places like Sydney are expensive in no small part because of issues like negative gearing and zoning controls, all in direct control of the government. Also the government is under no incentive to change the status quo because like any good mafia they take their cut of every transaction with stamp duty "oh you two want to trade, where's mine?".
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Sorry I'm not sure what nonsense you're implying.
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That could make so much work and so many industries just impossible... If that wasn't possible, i could never be a programmer and i could never build my business later. None of my world would exist. I have no idea what i'd even do.
Why couldn't you be a programmer? Does your code stop working if workers have better protection?
Presumably it takes away many more flexible opportunities if you can't freely freelance.
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And yet Tokyo does not have this problem despite growing 50% in population over the last two decades. If you make building housing illegal prices rise. Demand and supply are going to meet somewhere and if you restrict supply prices will rise. If you restrict it more they'll rise more or faster. Compare San Francisco, Seattle and Houston in a US context. The more you restrict supply the more prices rise.
One wonderful thing about Japan is that houses are as much of an investment as toothbrushes. The minute someone uses it, its value drops immensely. 10 years is old but still somewhat livable and generally cheap. Once you get past 20 years, locals basically see the house as scrap. It's really easy to buy cheap houses or apartments over 20 years old. Some clueless foreigners new to Japan see these prices and think they…
That doesn't quite make sense. You're basically paying for the land in many European cities, too, so how is the price of the building an important factor? It's the land that's very expensive.
Re: Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike
#89Condition of migrant workers in South Korea is even worse: https://indianexpress.com/article/world/squid-game-netflix-s...
Re: Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike
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Korea frequently tries to decentralize and build new districts and cities from scratch.It just does not work because of korean culture.
It does not work anywhere in the world. Business and people are quite content with "old" districts and cities.
It's not that.It's the korean approach of doing things.The "bbali bbali" culture where korean ingenuity gets pushed back by their impatience and the need to re-invent themselves very quick.
They like to designate certain areas to specific industries and then wonder why it's not such a good approach.
Look at Songdo or Pangyo Techno Valley.Both rushed and without much thought. As soon as the gov subsidies ran out the companies wanted to move back because it was both as expensive as in Seoul downtown with little of other benefit.
Also 99% of the companies there were korean anyway.