EdwinLarkin

Are you paid by the CCP? Honest question.

Airbnb should be simply banned.There's no way short term rental is any good for any city. That's what hotels with different price ranges are for.

You live here? So do I. Wait time is not propaganda.It's real. I can get any type of healthcare service in SK without even thinking about it.

>Private healthcare is simply immoral and barbaric, a constant, externally determined demand for something should not be exploited.

Except you are talking worst case scenario "The US".SK's healthcare is not completely private owned.Quite the opposite actually.

And yet...it's both cheaper and much more efficient than anything in Europe.

What? China is the most capitalist of them all.

Densely populated areas are worth the shot even if you compete with 14 other providers.

That's such a ridiculous take on it.Have you actually used that "free healthcare in Europe"? It sucks ass.

I get better healthcare in South Korea that is both cheaper and more effective than in Germany or Austria.

Question: How do you pull all this info? Web scraping? Official APIs?

That's completely normal and does not only apply to India but all other offshore centers like Eastern Europe or the Philippines.

You guys are a cost centre.

Since carbon taxes primarily benefit local production...yes? Emerging nations are too far away from the US to care about it as much as you think.

>That doesn't mean the costs of a carbon tax don't outweigh the benefits of having economic ties with the countries that have that tax.

The only reason the world is not at war is globalization and even that is coming to an end.

If you have to preach something like a zealot it means it is not as good as you think it is.

Most people dont look up whether "something will work" on Windows or Mac.They just simply use the machines they buy.

And does your company employ hundreds of people or is it a small biz < 99 ppl?

Coming from a nation whose borders shifted all the time I definitely dont see it like that.

Believing that everything will shift to remote work and borders will disappear is in my opinion naive.

Even today carbon taxes are the stupidest idea people from rich nations thought about.

Around 5BN from the developing world will laugh at this proposal.

They will not be able to trade with you? Oh well they might trade among themselves and dont have to face competition from rich countries.

I call this win win.

That's absurd.

>I think we need a carbon tax, that is specifically a financial disincentive towards any means of energy production that directly pollutes the atmosphere.

Ok then lets end 2 biggest industries that pollute the planet the most. Construction and food production.

We can live in environmentally friendly uniform grey boxes and eat protein bars.

Singapore style development model is a nice theory but it does not work. It's exploitative in nature and gets its revenue by churning through thousands of immigrants that have no access to HDB.

I think you just don realize the scope of numbers you need to play with especially if you dont start with a reasonable amount in the first place.

Real estate is worse than crypto when it comes to speculation.I realized this myself when my property doubled in value in less than 2 years.

I have yet to find a tech company that is not about extracting as much wealth as it can by min/maxing on human suffering.

Working conditions in the US are a lot better than in Africa or the poorest post-USSR countries.What's your point?

1st world countries should not boast about basic human rights.That should be the standard.

Are you South Korean? What do you know about South Korea's real estate?

Either way I would say housing in Japan (considering all the constraints) seems to work great.

Quite the opposite actually.Increase capitalism and reduce government control and you get more housing.

In 99% cases it's the government/zoning rules that prevent increasing the supply of housing not private investors not wanting to build enough.

The only way to balance the market is to reduce demand and increase supply.

Build more.

I wonder about volatility of these crypto exchanges. Cant a single government of a large nation deal a serious blow to such a company?

What's wrong with the latter? It's a standard practice of indian outsourcing companies like Infosys,Tech Mahinda,TCL...

Also the "lifting out of poverty" is standard propaganda spread by CCP https://www.firstpost.com/world/china-claims-to-have-ended-e...

What's nationalistic about that?

>Oh no doubt it's unlikely. Does that mean we should build suburbs instead of walkable neighborhoods? I'm not sure why it would.

I am not sure.Should we? I think living in the suburbs (and now I dont have a picture of american suburbs in mind) is something that a lot of people imagine as good life.Is it sustainable? Dont know. But is city life in mega cities sustainable? Also not.

>I'm not even arguing for that. I'm saying just stop building more suburbs. The cities will retrofit over time on their own as it starts to make economic sense.

Are cities better than suburbs? Asian megacities definitely are not solving the problem (although I am not arguing they should move to the suburbs :D).

>I live in the suburbs. Most people have no choice in living in the suburbs or not. The suburbs are simply built, and then that's all the choice you have.

I am not sure they are simply just built (maybe in the US?). Here in Europe suburbs are built because they provide better value for the price. Apts in cities are expensive and too small.

>Yea... tell me about it as I have to close my windows because every day there is constant mowing, leaf blowing, and weed whacking and people driving loud cars and motorcycles. Oh and dogs barking. Though that's in the suburbs.

Point taken. But you can definitely build a house / retrofit it that can mitigate the noise.That's much harder to do in a highrise building.

>Why would you need public transportation to walk down the street? You'd just walk.

I do that here in Europe.Cities are mostly walkable and yet most of the destinations that I want to go to are more reachable by car than by public transport.

>Why would you then trust the government to build and maintain roads and highway infrastructure?

Because they dont.They gain points by mismanaging public resources (building roads and highway infrastructure leading to nowhere (or very sparsely populated areas).

>I don't think technology can solve the problem. It's a public policy one. We need subtractive solutions, not additive ones, in my opinion.

You can live comfortably without being affected by these solutions.There's many more people that will having more tough because of that.

Nah you can want things to be different but the change can come at much higher cost than you can imagine.I am often thinking about this sustainable way of living and I always come to conclusion that we cant.

I am not sure how possible it is to retrofit adequate infrastructure into american cities but even then you will inevitably have to raise standards.Most people that want to stay in suburbs prefer it because of ... well a lot of reasons.

Apartment dwellers usually have an issue with noise coming from their neighbors and there does not seem to be a solution to this problem without raising costs astronomically.

I am not sure austerity will come...at least not for you ;-) in the US or other "resource rich" anglo countries.

>Anyway, what's so austere about walking to the grocery store nearby instead of driving a mile down the road? Why build so that you have to drive a car instead of making it optional?

I dont like to drive. I own a cheap car and use it to get from point A to point B in reasonable time.It gives me freedom no public transport can. I just dont trust the government to be there for me (it never was and I dont think it ever will be).

I'd rather support technical solution than ideological.

>Btw it would be awesome to buy you a beer if we ever met - nothing personal here. :)

I would gladly take it. I am a huge beer nerd.

I understand your viewpoint but you dont understand mine.And you probably never will.It's not your fault and I wont call you out on arrogance or ignorance or anything like that.It's impossible to re-live the experience.

You see I was born to an Eastern European country to a poor family.It was not anything like the US centric media portrays it to be.Definitely not africa or super exaggerated levels of poverty.

But we have not had the means to acquire wealth.My family did not have the opportunity to do so.My parents nor my grandparents or my grand-grand parents had that opportunity.

You on the other hand were born to a country with excess.Excess abundance of resources and wealth.

You have seen that excess yourself and it tainted you.It made you realize that you could live more sustainably.

You see I was born to such country were "sustainable" was the default mode of living.

You cant demand austerity from your experience of excess.

Your viewpoint is ideological.If you believe in preserving planet earth then what you want is rationing resources.

And that inevitably leads to communism.

I believe saving the earth is impossible with that kind of strategy.There's 3BN of people that will want the same kind of living standards like the rich west and you dont have any right nor influence on what they will do.

It's very similar to what we have done during this pandemic with lockdowns.It just did not work and prolonged the inevitable.

Very natural phenomenon that is caused by Chinese deforestation and exploitation of the country.

>4. Don't know where you have been. Shanghai and Beijing is full of young and ambitious people from all over the world. They look for the future, not for the past. I was an immigrant in the US myself (also have an US passport now). The US was always closed for me. Zero opportunities. In China it is a brand new world. Opportunities, ambition, money. I consider it my home.

How much does CCP pay these days? Do you get sponsored tours to Chongqing ?