That's true. China is impressive!
mrmanager
joined 3 years ago
I agree with that, and we see that in history very clearly too.
Ok :)
I asked chat gpt what system it think would produce a system where most people are happy and it suggested the same system as in nordic countries:
If the objective is high average living standards while keeping poverty, insecurity and extreme concentrations of power relatively low, one model worth looking at closely is the social-democratic mixed economy used, in different forms, in the Nordic countries.
It is still a market economy: people can own companies, become wealthy, invest, compete and make profits. But the market is constrained by institutions designed to spread the gains more broadly:
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private enterprise and competitive markets for most goods and services
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strong unions and collective bargaining, so workers have negotiating power rather than relying entirely on employers
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universal healthcare, education, pensions and social insurance
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relatively progressive taxation and substantial redistribution
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unemployment protection and retraining, so losing a job is less catastrophic
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regulation of monopolies, workplace conditions and environmental damage
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publicly provided infrastructure and services
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usually some combination of public, cooperative and private ownership rather than insisting everything must be privately owned
There is empirical support for several of those mechanisms. OECD research finds that taxes and transfers substantially reduce market-income inequality, although the effect differs considerably between countries.
research finds that greater collective-bargaining coverage is associated with smaller wage disparities, and that labour-market institutions can counteract some of the inequality created by concentrated employer power.
Nordic tax-and-benefit systems have historically produced comparatively low poverty and inequality after taxes and transfers, together with high employment.
I think we live in a world where money decides everything, and it's very rare that we don't have solutions to our problems.
Its just not profitable.
When did politics make it better for the poor? We still seem to have alot of poor people.
If the solution was politics, wouldn't the problem be solved?
We dont want ads.
I did not know about PAQ actually, thats cool. :)
They pass dystopian chat control with one hand and does this with the other.
My arch system is so stable it's boring. Year after year, just runs. Doesn't slow down, doesn't install crapware.
So I dont know. I'm happy with it.
Make a PR. :)
I thought this was kind of a fun way to show discontent with Chromiums added Web Integration - someone made a pull request to simply remove it.
Its already been approved by a lot of us, why not add your approval as well? Click the Approve button and add your name to the list of people supporting the removal.
Google will of course not care but I thought it was a fun gesture.
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Should be a Lemmy tag for comments from AI so people can just skip those maybe. :)