>There's no discussion of this anywhere, really, since the for profit platform is so powerful that some people are literally afraid to criticize them in public.
Really? Every other article about Google is criticizing how much data they collect. Meanwhile, websites are literally being blacklisted via the Domain Name System (by Google specifically) for undesirable political speech. So much for only governments can engage in censorship.
The author even put the word in single quotes because he knew it wasn't really censorship, but still used the word anyway because everyone likes being the victim. Although, before the hive-mind downvote squad gets me too, I must say PeerTube is still a great idea.
A trade deficit means that, on net, your trade partners end up with your currency and no goods to buy with it. So they start buying up assets in your country. Factories, companies, land, housing, bonds, etc. so by maintaining a trade deficit for so long, we have legally sold a large fraction of the assets in our country to foreign investors. (Foreign direct investment) How do you think Trump made his billions?
Having Saudi Oil Sheiks own all the Soccer teams in England is the result of the UK trade deficit.
Having chineese bussinessmen buy up all the valuable real estate in our biggest cities is a result of the trade deficit.
Massive underemployment (more baristas fewer mechanics) is a result of the trade deficit.
Yup. Heavily protectionist. Thats exactly how an unbiased economist would characterize US trade policy. Stop watching msnbc dude.
The USA became the world's largest evonomy with massive tariffs on basically all imports. Smoot Hawley Act anyone? Those were removed gradualy starting in the 1970's and lo and behold the trade deficit sky rocketted while the manufacturing economy plummeted.
>In a cross-country analysis of over 125 countries, this study finds that corruption is lower in countries where a greater share of parliamentarians are women.
Can people please use their critical thinking skills here? Why would countries like Saudi Arabia have more corruption than countries like Sweeden? If you seriously think it's because Sweeden allows women in government you need your head checked.
I agree with you, but only because you seem to have missed the crux (no irony intended) of Ayn Rand's ideology. She hated how even the style of the buildings around her embodied a people and culture she saw as a threat to her vision of the world and wanted to tear down. She would have no "homage" to it at all.
I agree, it is beautiful. But Ayn Rand would have hated it. That design is steeped in European and Christian traditions and symbolism. Those things are all anathema to her ideology.
There are 5 billion impoverished people who would move to a first world country and depress natives' wages to nil if given a chance. Those who haven't done so yet shouldn't be discounted either.
This is the only comment that gets at the heart of the matter. I would add that culpability is not zero sum. The shooter was 100% responsible, and the others were also partially responsible.