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ThisIsNowhereon Defecting from North Korea is now harder

> communist regimes

The official ideology of North Korea is Juche. Position papers in the 1970s said Juche is not communism, and that position has if anything become more solid over time.

ThisIsNowhereon Americans have quit quitting their jobs

> Detroit was the wealthiest city in the US in 1950, with the highest per capita GDP in the country. Over the course of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, the UAW union took over, with membership eventually peaking in 1978.

> What followed was industrial collapse, and eventually, Detroit becoming a ghost town.

East Michigan was wealthy in the 1950s, and the unionized workers like Larry Page's grandfather sent their children off to college.

Textile mills in the Carolinas had virtually no unionization.

Yes, manufacturing employment is down from Michigan's heyday. What about the textile plants from North Carolina's heyday? They closed down too. They never unionized, so what caused that to happen?

The difference is the Michigan factory worker entered the middle class, and owned a home, two cars and sent his kids off to college. The North Carolina textile worker's children did not get this education, and when the textile mills closed had no such luck.

ThisIsNowhereon Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

Well the US Supreme Court said last year that any new Environmental Protection Agency regulation is invalid on creation, so there's that.

ThisIsNowhereon Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading

I know I'm on HN when someone is explaining why the "woke" ideology of the orcas attacking yachts is ultimately futile.

ThisIsNowhereon Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store

For the past half century, inflation adjusted wages have remained basically flat while productivity has more than doubled. The 1% heirs have captured almost all of that growth. So that is the source of this funding - the heirs expropriate the profit of surplus labor time to finance the government which oversees that expropriation.