This is so profoundly sad and unnecessary yet a completely predictable outcome of Thatcher’s and subsequent gov’ts’ neoliberal reforms. I hope Polanski and Co can get the power to start reversing and repairing after Labour thoroughly shits the bed.
he was bitten by american ceo wasn’t he? 🙃
It’s a global pandemic.
Under pressure to make changes to boost sluggish economic growth, the conservative has told voters their country’s prosperity will not be maintained “with a four-day week and work-life balance”. He recently effectively accused them of skiving by falsely calling in sick, criticising the relative ease with which sicknotes could be obtained from GPs over the phone.
Someone does not understand what productivity means and how it’s meaningfully improved.
If you (you being the proverbial CDU brain here) need people to marginally increase their working hours, in order to achieve higher economic output, you’re in deep trouble. The increased output is also marginal and a one time boost. If you want meaningfully higher economic output, with sustained growth, you have to use machines and automation to achieve more with the same work hours. In other words you gotta do productive capital investment. Unfortunately conservative brains can only think of the cheapest solution (for businesses) first, at the expense of workers quality and quantity of life.
Microslop can cry about it.
Isn’t he supposed to not say the quiet part of his agenda out loud?
“If anyone thinks here . . . that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming,” he said in remarks to the European parliament. “You can’t.”
Ah yes, a continent with 450 million people can’t possibly organize its productive forces to defend itself! I hope people are paying attention to the bullshit these people are spinning.
Breaking Comrade
From wiki:
A combination of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the end of prohibition, and World War II severely dampened Cuba’s tourist industry, and it wasn’t until the 1950s that numbers began to return to the island in any significant force. During this period, American organized crime came to dominate the leisure and tourist industries, a modus operandi outlined at the infamous Havana Conference of 1946. By the mid-1950s Havana became one of the main markets and the favourite route for the narcotics trade to the United States. Despite this, tourist numbers grew steadily at a rate of 8% a year and Havana became known as “the Latin Las Vegas”.[49][50]
This was also common before the depression, as far as I read.
High time we stop buying weapons from the US. The only reason paying the wildly overpriced gear is to have them provide military support when needed. If that’s not happening… then it makes no sense spending that money. Build it locally or buy it from the cheapest supplier.
I’m guessing the libs don’t want to risk retaliation by the US, as well as they don’t want the anti-communist part of the party to see them as supporting commies.
If they maintain power till after the midterms, there’s hope they won’t become an American brothel again.
This is actually shocking.
Please do VS Code. 😁
Glad to lighten up the day!
Hm. I could self-host that.
True for sure. Also the source is TASS. On the other hand it’s also true that Israel has interest in toppling the Iranian regime. It’s a well established fact that Israel 's Mossad operates within Iran and funnelling weapons furthers that interest. I don’t doubt Israel has done whatever they could to help the protest topple the regime, and I also don’t doubt the Iranian regime did what they could to pin this on Israel and other foreign actors to deflect responsibility.
That’s how the meme goes though. Anytime someone suggests, says something positive about one of vim or emacs, the response should be that they should use the other. 😄
It’s an almost 40-year-old flame war.
If it’s this useful, we’re (and them) fucked too because the economy would collapse under falling aggregate demand due to falling wages and layoffs. The “people will find new jobs” won’t save us from a shift this large without a depression. And all sorts of things happen during depressions.
Oh yeah, for sure. All production consumes natural resources at some point in the chain, even services. And natural resources are finite. Even if we recycle everything, we’d still have a finite amount we have to work with beyond which we can’t expand. If the driving force behind the production expansion is primarily profit growth, then there’s no satisfying that. That’s an inherent problem with the capitalist system. If however the driving force is the need for making something that doesn’t exist - e.g. more tanks, more wind turbines, more scientific researchers, more musicians, then automation can help a lot. But even for purely profit-driven growth, automation would provide a lot more runway than making people work more hours. I know you’re not disagreeing, I’m just saying this for completeness. :D