They abandoned central planning, not state control of the economy.
Unfortunately, their priority is not worker welfare, but more like national greatness.
And they're performing way better than "capitalist" economies, which all look downright dysfunctional in pretty serious ways (e.g. selling off strategic manufacturing capacity to make a quick buck).
I would look to the past, but only as far back as free market capitalism, to replace the crony capitalism that we have right now in the US. Both have their issues, but nothing compared to communism. There's still time to correct course without that nonsense being involved.
Ah yes, the most capitalistic country on the planet, where billionaires quite literally buy out public officials isn't capitalistic enough, and isn't "real capitalism".
Watch out, you're almost sounding like the "not real communism" boys.
>Both have their issues, but nothing compared to communism.
Some would say leaving a few million people die of thirst and hunger every year because it's "not profitable to fix it", or having a population of dozens of millions in your own country suffering of mental health problems, inability to get basic healthcare or even living conditions for the past 50 years might be a sign that your favorite system is fundamentally immoral, but hey.
> I would look to the past, but only as far back as free market capitalism, to replace the crony capitalism that we have right now in the US.
Free market capitalism won't save us from a future were automation reaches a point that it creates a large, unemployable underclass. And that's the future the tech and business elite have been promising us (at least until they belatedly realized that was the quiet part they shouldn't be saying out loud).
I'm going to take their word on those promises, when considering regulation to constrain them.
> Both have their issues, but nothing compared to communism. There's still time to correct course without that nonsense being involved.
I would like a communism that is basically capitalism, but with the capital more-or-less evenly distributed among the workers. Keep a lot of the economic system, but replace it with other things: mutuals, worker-owned businesses, maybe 50-50 JVs between labor and investors, some "all of the above" combination, etc.
Countries under embargoes are failing?! Countries that cannot get oil, electricity, goods because the most imperialistic country on earth cannot see them succeed are failing ? Well golly gee how could that be
cuba has a longer life expectancy than the US despite all of that btw
> Yes, because communism has always worked out so well in the past.
Yeah, won't anyone think of the poor oligarchs, openly fantasizing about creating a permanent underclass?
And the only thing that didn't work out well in the past was central planning by state-owned businesses with 20th century technology. The structure I proposed is nothing like that.
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Baloney. Greenpeace got what it deserved. I loved the fact that the punitive damages were doubled by the jury. To see them wreak violence and destruction and then whine about the freedom of protest being lost is hysterical. The jury of those harmed by their actions saw through everything and gave them what they deserved.
Heh, quoting Wikipedia and its sources isn't the win you think it is. As usual, it's always making someone who dared to criticize the COVID "vaccines" as if they oppose all real, working vaccines and then labeling them an "anti-vaxxer".
Did you even bother to read the article and the actual emails it quoted?
What a joke. Nothing but "union busting" this, "anti-climate" that, and "far right" that (where "far right" = "anything to the right of Marx"). No mentions of the destruction wrought by left and far left policies, including climate change fear mongering and the destruction wrought by "green" policies.
All written by a union group. Tells you everything you need to know.
> The report cites Amazon’s high injury rates in the US, the company challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), its efforts in Canada to overturn labor law, the banning of Amazon lobbyists from the European parliament for refusing to attend hearings on worker violations, and refusal to negotiate with unions in Germany, among other cases.
Sounds like some legitimate points. What exactly do you mind about these?
The most vulnerable were old male smokers with COPD, diabetes, cancer, kidney malfunction, elevated D-dimer and obesity. Just having two of those didn’t put you anywhere near the top.
As someone who has describe insects species we might alternately say "the evolutionary processes that lead to the anatomy of these creatures is mind-blowing".
Find access to a 60x scope. Fill a yellow party bowl with water about 3/4 full. Put a drop or so of non-lemon dish-soap on the edge, it will break the surface tension. Put that bowl outside, literally anywhere there is plant life (and pretty much anywhere in general). Get an algae removing dip-net, for fish tanks. After a day, but no longer than that, pour the sample through the net. Rinse it carefully by running fresh water over your hand onto the specimens. Invert the result into a small, flat-bottomed white pan with a little ethyl (or propyl) alcohol you get from a pharmacy. Put that under the scope. Be amazed.
I've seen a lot of minds melted by this little experiment, which isn't so little, it's the best way to collect many insects. In the field we'd run hundreds of these on collecting trips, servicing them every day or so.
It is tragic that some people feel the need to destroy every insect or arachnid that comes anywhere near them. 99.9% of them are harmless to humans. I don't understand the compulsion to maim or kill them.
As someone who doesn't kill them, I can explain the compulsion.
People feel threatened by insects. They tickle, they sting, some spread disease. They can be painful. Some species can do major damage to structures and crops. They look alien and menacing to many people.
