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hahahaha Deutsche Welle credible source????? hahahahhaha

Yeah, sure. Tell me more about what they ordered you to say, comrade? :))))

How is that not totalitarian propaganda? What is the difference between USSR official propaganda and Democrat "aid for other countries"? I am interested in HN Leftist crowd opinion. Or maybe they will downvote this to oblivion, because it's easier. But easier doesn't mean 'right'.

Nothing can beat democrats in that, so if anything it will get better. Only communists pardon themselves "just in case". Trump removed the electric car bill, even though Musk is his friend. This is called integrity. On the other hand Biden tried to stop the development of SpaceX, which is corruption on par with Putin's. But after all, Putin is KGB agent - defender of Leftist ideas, which are at the core of Democrats, aren't they?

It's funny how often an open propaganda is displayed here and cherished sheepishly by the hn crowd - "hackers" and "wannabe startup-ers". The fact is, Tesla is VASTLY more successful than anything any wokeist has ever been able to achieve. If Tesla sales drops in California it's undeniably much more likely to happen due to the DISASTER that DEI policy has brought in the state and some of the cities. People are leaving the state, wealth is destroyed, cities are destroyed. It is quite evident that there is no news about Tesla Sales decline in the US. Which means there are no such decline. Which means that Tesla doesn't have a problem, California has. Go Woke - Go Broke. And no matter what partisanship newspapers spread around, the achievements that Elon Musk personally has achieved are much more important than the feelings of few fanboys of Marx, living in the US. We are still waiting DEI policies to produce Starship, instead they account for a few tens of billions of loss in Boeing. You cannot expect to turn the whole country into 1984 distopia, persecute political opponents, create a thought police and nothing to retaliate. The fact remains - intelligent people are not leftists. No matter how many scientist you will cancel, how many Nobel prize you will try to revoke, in the end you have to eat - the same way as people in the USSR had to eat. And some people know how this ended up with Lisenko and denying natural facts and basic science.

That is from 2019!

Or I am from the EU and I don't see many of you coming here to live your nice life with big taxes, 2 months queues for doctor appointment, 3 bedroom appartments in the ballpark of 1 million dollars AT LEAST, while net salary around $5k per month.

there is ZERO evidence on that! we have plenty of evidence of the opposite - you can immediately go and live in a country with equality and no billionaires - Cuba, for example, but no - you prefer to stay in the USA and downvote me - who lived through the socialism and saw what absolute HELL is when people like you are in charge.

It is not their wealth and quality of life they were afraid of, I can assure you of that! Or you believe that KGB didn't interfere in the capitalist countries even more? But hey, I can show you even today, in EU, couple of cases of using chemical weapons against people by the FSB(KGB) and a few blown warehouses with weapons. Can you show me a murder or attempt murder by CIA in Cuba, North Korea, China that happened in the last, let's say not 5 years, but 30? Or maybe they interfered because socialist countries waged a war against capitalism as they openly admit? Or maybe you are caring their war now.

Last week it was still the job of the previous administration to publish it and it was the last administration which created the problem in the first place. Ideological purification was also what the previous administration has done quite a lot by hiring people based on their sexual preference, skin colour, gender and other irrelevant to the job characteristics.

Or maybe if people stop trying to build socialism they could live much better? I for sure know that all the countries that attempted to "get rid of the billionaires", "stop the corrupt capitalism", "put the power to the people" lived vastly worse than people in the capitalist world and especially USA. Or maybe there is another reason that the emigration is ALWAYS in the direction of the capitalist countries, and the more capitalist the country is and them more billionaires it has, more people try to go there. If that was not the case Trump wouldn't have wanted to deport people, they would have gone themselves.

No, the argument I an countering is that since oligopoly is bad, government control would fix it. It has NEVER fixed it. Only more free market could.

Redbaiting in 1950s turned out to be absolutely right thing to do, as latest unclassified documents showed. The problem is that now huge amount of us population live in the capitalism but preach socialism, even though there’s quite good choice of leftist countries where they can migrate to.

If the government owns all it is FAR worse. Intel used to be a monopoly in practice. Now it’s not. The manufacturer of CPUs in USSR though never ceased to be the one and only. Is it dumbed enough for you to understand?

There’s quite good active market regulation in Russia, Venezuela and Cuba for example. How is it there?

Funny, whenever any leftists stay in power for a while we see such kind of situation, but somehow it only gets noticed AFTER they are no longer in power.

Capitalism is “capitalists employing workers” only in Marxist doctrine. Capitalism is free market. And that will not disappear because AI displaces workers.

But its usage to “enlighten the masses” - does not.

Sure, the same way printing press, electrification, education and what not did.

Socialism is communism in progress. I have actually lived in socialist country, what about you? And lies and propaganda is what Leftists like you do, not me. Funny, you never want to live in the countries where you rule.

I am actually European :)

We have heard this before - in Soviet Union. The progress and overcoming capitalism was inevitable. It ended up well

There are very many universities with zero or no tax, most of them in socialist countries. Why don't you go there? Maybe because none of those matter when serious education is considered.

We already tried fixing problems with throwing tax money at them. It didn't work out. You can see the result of socialism in Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and where not. Wars do not start because of scarcities. Wars start because of disbalance of power. And it is very important for the Western world to be ahead in the AI, because otherwise China may cause a real war and then a lot of Western people would die. Do you not care about them?

1) wealth is not increased by tax break, only current income is increased

2) if government gives everyone tax break but not me, it means only that the government taxes only me

3) if everyone has 50% more money, there is very high probability that my business will go up A LOT

Seriously, dude, it’s not worthy anymore to try and explain to you very basic stuff. Inflation is not a balance between taxation and spending. All Middle Eastern countries are having huge spending and almost zero taxes. I asked you very simple question and you couldn’t answer.

What bothers me most is why people write about things they have no clue about and clearly haven’t even put a decent thought into it.

Basically what you believe in is that the thieves are controlling the inflation because they get some of the citizens wealth.

If you believe that free market means no laws you have not enough knowledge to participate in this conversation. Somalia is not a free market, it is a lack of state where you are not free at all, but the opposite. It is not that different though than what happens in socialist countries. Venezuela used to be very rich and advanced and now it has more or less the same situation as in Somalia.

Yes, before the resource is taken out of the Earth it doesn’t exist, it is created in a sense by them. Look at Venezuela - they are dying of hunger with all the oil in the world (Russia, too) But socialist ideas prevailed there and the bad companies are banned.

So, in this desert there would be no inflation or deflation, you say. Let’s say we use gold coins there. Wouldn’t we have an inflation if we find a gold mine there and everybody start digging up gold? You are missing the fact that the money printing is not driven only by government spending. It is driven primarily by the monetary policy (in the hands of the FED) and to some extent by the government debt. You have knowledge gaps on a very basic level. The idea that taxation stops inflation is absolutely ridiculous. It would mean that countries with low taxes have very high inflation and this is not the case. It would also means that the inflation should be constant and in struct correlation with the taxes. Both statements are completely false and very easily provable by quick fact check. The only things taxes do are: misplacing capital and stopping economic growth, which may be the same thing arguably