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In football, training club compensation is mandatory :

https://www.easportslaw.com/news/training-compensation-and-s...

Sure, this is a FIFA regulation (and not state or EU) but let's not act like this is purely voluntary.

>Bitcoin is used as a tool against French colonial CFA Franc in Africa.

That's a new one. Sure there are some crypto enthusiasts/ scammers (those are not necessarily the same people) trying to push some convoluted argument related to the CFA but this is super niche at best. And furthermore, if anyone would actually use crypto in the CFA area, it would be as a mean to circumvent the exchange control and acquire Euros/Dollars. That's not exactly fighting "colonial money", is it ?

Also :

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1579147610962919425?s...

The "added" capacity is close to Storengy's total capacity.

My guess is that the chart is missing pre-2012 data on those sites.

>Do you need an educated labor force to assemble iPhone?

Yes you do.

"Low-skill" workers with basic education (reading, writing, counting, some understanding of some scientific concepts) will simply perform better.

And you still need engineers and other high-skill workers to supervise, maintain, perform quality control, improve methods etc..

The thing is China (at least until quite recently) had a huge quantity of those and at a rather low price.

China's population in the 1980 was poor but was much better educated than most countries at the same GDP level. And a larger part of the population got basic education. This is important when you have to read instructions. (meanwhile India's literacy rate is at the level of a middle of pack African country)

>What's the difference between China, India, and the early western country vs these countries then? Why is this unique to a limited subset who have the potential become a big player in manufacturing?

Mostly revenues from natural ressources. Rents allows much more centralized control of the political and economical equilibrium in the country. And it's easier to manage.

Despotic regimes that industrialize (like China or Vietnam) usually do it out of necessity : either because they can't make enough out of natural ressources to provide sufficiently to their subjects or because they need to have some level of strategic independence.

But they do see a dynamic economy as a threat.

And that can happen with the same person !

Correlation US had been training more elite troops recently Elite troops have always been the ones succefully pulling out coups

Yes but it did and does spread beyond Tanzania. Lingala probably did have some government help too in Mobutu’s era but still.

It’s weird how the article does not give any example of languages that did spread and become dominant without any coercion. They do exist: Swahili and Lingala for instance. They mostly spread through trade and as « neutral » language used to communicate between ethnic groups (with their own language).

If setting up and leading a minority rule government based on race is not enough to be painted as racist, nothing and no one is.

no, the groups are legitimate. the real question is whever they'd have achieve so much without Russia's help.

Both South Sudan's and Eritrea's independance referendum happened with the agreement of Sudan and Ethiopia.

=> a peace treaty in the case of Sudan => a consitutionnal provision in the case of Ethiopia

So they were legal.

Somalia will have to agree to letting Somaliland go in order for the African Union to recognize Somaliland independance.

>If those company think it’s about content libraries they’re going to lose. >All those companies think: we own a lot of media, we can just build a streaming media platform.

I agree with your conclusion but it's not the technology that will kill Disney and the likes. It's the myriad compromises they'll make about the content.

Music production costs are much much lower than TV/Movies.

The argument is that differentiation (and then exclusive content) is the reason why content distributors are willing to take risks.

the AU is also much older than UNASUR. The OAU was established in 1963 with a very clear mandate towards unification and decolonization.

However, the good intentions towards unity had to quickly face the reality of each despot desire to stay in power.

Mikrotik is also as cheap as it gets.

And at least Cristiano Ronaldo is a EU-citizen...

When you're Neymar and you get paid for a toothpaste add in Japan, you get 3 countries possibly arguing about that revenue. Hence Panama, at least until you figure it out.

The idea that the West removed Ben Ali and Mubarak is nuts.

Those were "their" sons of bitches.

Nope. But it sure does prove that those things can be done.

I mean they actually improved delivered on major issue like education, social programs, wages and actually really improved the lives of their citizen.

Bolsa Familia surely lacks the romantism of the comprehensive agrarian reform but I like the fact that it has actually been done.

>30 years is not long enough for everyone involved to be dead and no longer influential... and that doesn't even touch on whether the reason it happened is structural.

Context matters. With the end of the cold war, the oligarchy doesn't get to use a threat to gather support. And a certain level of diversification of those economies have made the very powerful less power.

My second point is that half of South America had left wing government and there was no Coups. Things would have been very different for Lula or Correa in the 70's.

While I'm sure you don't see it that way, your comment is true on many levels.

Leftists got better at "not being scary" to foreign and most importantly local interests. And for the most part, they delivered.

Basically the José Figueres Ferrer way.

All of your examples are from more than thirty years ago.

In the mean time, half of South America had pretty leftist governments and nothing happened.

If I'm not mistaken, the US doesn't consume that much Saudi oil anyway.

So may be it's more about protecting the interests of American Oil companies rather than direct consumption.

> It would be an exceptional civil war indeed if the central government (or any other faction of significance) did not commit atrocities.

It does not have to be that way. Look at what's going on in the Donbass. It is war, it is happening in a densely populated area. Both sides make heavy of the artillery.

But the death count is like x100 times less.

Because they're not willingly trying to kill as many civilians.

(I agree with the rest of your points though)

As the parent has said, the consumer are paying and often higher prices than in Europe so they complain. A LOT.

Agreed.

They don't even trust someone from their regime not to fuck them up if they retire.

Not that I disagree with your overall point but :

>Recently some African countries have withdrawn from the International Criminal Court on that basis; only the weak are prosecuted

Actually only two (Gambia and Burundi) has withdrawn arguing this. And in both cases, everyone knows the withdrawal is related to their own human rights abuses.

South Africa has announced its intention to withdraw (don't know if it's effective) because they believe it hinders its mediation efforts in conflict zones. (ie. we cannot help Uganda settle with the LRA because we're bound to arrest LRA leaders as soon as they set foot in South Africa)