Saapas
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No? Just saying it’s not exclusive to capitalism
Saapas@piefed.zipto
World News@lemmy.ml•Zelenskyy faces the biggest corruption scandal of his presidencyEnglish
11·9 hours agoIt is if you’ve ever looked into it. It wasn’t much of a secret

In the USSR work is a duty and a matter of honor for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: “He who does not work, neither shall he eat”.
Article twelve of the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union
Saapas@piefed.zipto
World News@lemmy.ml•Zelenskyy faces the biggest corruption scandal of his presidencyEnglish
32·7 hours agoIt’s his government. When Putin’s government or inner circle gets caught being corrupt it is titled the same way as Putin’s corruption scandal
Saapas@piefed.zipto
World News@lemmy.ml•Zelenskyy faces the biggest corruption scandal of his presidencyEnglish
11·13 hours agoWell during the USSR too obviously
Saapas@piefed.zipto
technology@hexbear.net•Clean and cheap energy ... but at what cost?!?English
1·13 hours agoThe idea that a country can set their own interest rate one-sidedly with global creditors and receive endless credit against that rate is just a fantasy.
Saapas@piefed.zipto
technology@hexbear.net•Clean and cheap energy ... but at what cost?!?English
1·13 hours agoYou are suggesting the country can set the interest rate and will get loans against that rate. Even when the loans pile up and the outlook on paying that loan off in agreed on time gets worse.
Saapas@piefed.zipto
technology@hexbear.net•Clean and cheap energy ... but at what cost?!?English
1·14 hours agoWhat you’ve described definitely doesn’t sound regular. Interest rates don’t exist, printing more and mormoney to pay for stuff doesn’t cause inflation etcc.
Spending before income, sure. But this plant isn’t actually making an income since it has to fight against Chinese, American manufacturing and they can out-subsidise their manufacturing so much so that your domestic manufacturing isn’t competitive anymore. That’s the whole issue.
Now as it stands, the government takes a loan they have to pay interest on to subsidise manufacturing and they’re hoping to get the money back (unless they want to keep taking loans) through taxes. You’ll just lose out money without any tangible benefit. You could use that money to pay for roads at least!
Saapas@piefed.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prisonEnglish
73·14 hours agoIf it happens for exact same reason I don’t see why one would be hate crime and the other not tbh
Saapas@piefed.zipto
technology@hexbear.net•Clean and cheap energy ... but at what cost?!?English
1·14 hours agoYour proposed economy is pretty bonkers. Government pays for subsidies and wages, then hopes to make back it all with taxes on those same wages. And all this to prop up a manufacturing industry fighting a subsidy war agains the likes of China and USA. The small country in question is going to go bankrupt
Not to mention, in this scenario the country isn’t taking loans since those don’t exist but is just printing money? I didn’t really understand that part. How is it all funded initially, until this circular perpetual motion machine takes over?
Saapas@piefed.zipto
technology@hexbear.net•Clean and cheap energy ... but at what cost?!?English
2·15 hours agoMany governments take out loans. But you are hoping for a circular economy to work where government pays for subsidies and wages, then they tax people and companies and make some of that back. But that money will run out. Not to mention people are going to be using that money for foreign products where parts of it flow outward and not back to government coffers.
Saapas@piefed.zipto
technology@hexbear.net•Clean and cheap energy ... but at what cost?!?English
2·17 hours agoThere are no loans
Where does the government get the money to pay the workers and the subsidies?
Sonetimes that’s the turning lane. It doesn’t make much sense to bop in and out of that one. If it is a regular lane and additional turning lanes are to the right of that then sure
Saapas@piefed.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prisonEnglish
5210·1 day agoIt seems weird to consider half the people as “protected class”. But only one gender. Dunno why they didn’t just make hate crime the charge and make misogyny fall under that
It sounds like the hospital did handle it. I don’t think it’s an excuse that they want those places to remain for those actually visiting quickly.
Literally shaking right now waiting to do all that. That’s called dedication.
You want to keep parking spaces available for people visiting the hospital and it’s more convenient to have short term parking close to the doors. Without fining you’d have hard time enforcing any of that
Saapas@piefed.zipto
technology@hexbear.net•Clean and cheap energy ... but at what cost?!?English
1·1 day agoYou think a country who is taking more and more loans with ever unlikelier chances of ultimately paying them off gets loans at the same terms as those that are trusted to pay them off?
It doesn’t matter if you feel the effect comes from trust or coercion, but if you keep priting money to pay for the wages like you’re suggesting then your money soon becomes worthless. And then your citizens are in trouble.
And like explained, small countries just can’t match the subsidies, not in the amount or the longevity. So even if they’re really aggressive about it, bigger economies USA, China, India that we mentioned, they can out-subsidise the small countries. So why exactly is anyone buying this domestic product if foreign products are just much cheaper?
It just seems like your plan for small countries being competetive relies on them being able to outspend the big economies with printing money and taking loans. And that… doesn’t sound great





That’s generally what happens