ChristerMLB

Oh come on, don’t link me an article from a billionaire-sponsored think tank and expect me to take that as anything but propaganda for lower taxes. That is just what those think tanks are for.

I tried to find the article they link to as a source (their link is dead), and I think it might be this: https://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2018QJE.pdf - here’s a quote from it:

“In the United States, the stagnation of bottom 50% incomes and the upsurge in the top 1% coincided with reduced progressive taxation, widespread deregulation (particularly in the financial sector), weakened unions, and an erosion of the federal minimum wage”

So yeah, much more progressive taxation, stricter regulation of the financial sector (including whatever capital controls are necessary) and strengthening of unions. All great ideas. Not sure about the federal minimum wage, but that might be a different discussion.

If the far-right becomes more extreme, people will reject them because most people prefer moderate views.

What’s moderate is relative, and as people get more desperate they will reach for more extreme solutions. Trump’s policies would be unthinkable just a few decades ago.

I will repeat: as people get more desperate. And they will, because the status quo is that things are getting worse - so voting for the status quo, is voting that things should keep getting worse. People understand this.

stock android on a fairphone 4 - I do use Syncthing for syncing, though

my Raspberry Pis are all resting atm, but I really should set one up with pihole and syncthing again…

I did address what you said. Adopting less extreme policies of a far-right group undermine its appeal.

Ah, okay, fair enough. In practice, though, since the fundamental problems will persist regardless of immigration policy, I think they’re still likely to keep growing in the longer run. They might also just chose to become even more extreme. I’d say we’ve seen this in Europe, with calls for “remigration” becoming part of the alt-right manifestos as mainstream politics has gotten more restrictive on immigration.

That being said, it’s not impossible to do a very progressive economic policy, combined with restrictive immigration policies.

The tax on the wealthy can be increased to lessen inequality but only to a degree because it would decrease the motivation to be rich. Making money is the basis of the capitalist system.

Well, I personally only want to go back to some version of what was the western consensus in the three decades following WW2 - I don’t think that’s very extreme really, but some people think it means I’m basically the ghost of Yosef Stalin :/

People innovated and worked hard in the 1950’s too

must be tuesday

Merz adopted a stricter stance on immigration but not as harsh as the AfD party. Likewise, a centrist Democrat could be tough on border security but give migrants already here a path to citizenship.

This has no bearing on what I said, I’ll repeat myself:

a centrist will not actually address the underlying issues that make actors like AfD, and the Trump-wing of the Republican party, get bigger and bigger.

Inequality can never be completely eliminated because people aren’t equal in talent

Nobody is talking about completely eliminating inequality

We are where we are because we’ve allowed inequality to increase every year since the mid-'70s. Allowing that to continue - especially without establishing an actually leftist alternative (New Deal Democrat or democratic socialist at the least) - will just make the populist right bigger and more extreme.

Maybe, but a centrist will not actually address the underlying issues that make actors like AfD, and the Trump-wing of the Republican party, get bigger and bigger.

To put it differently: a Bill Clinton-type might manage to get elected and be popular, but he wouldn’t do anything to keep inequality from rising even more.

a socialist who doesn’t support unions? :l

Got to say, you lost me at centrist. Why?

Yeah, going into a negotiation with a very public message of KISS THE BOOT OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES will generally have people going pretty far to keep it from looking like you’re getting your way. It’s a matter of dignity, and a lot of people take that quite seriously.

people will be able to buy devices, but only devices that are so crappy they can’t run AI (or games) locally

America doesn’t lose wars, it loses interest

I can see a situation where that makes sense. A colleague who keeps morale up can be at least as important for the team as one who works hard

…on the other hand, it can also be a way for managers to reward their loyal favorites for no particular reason.

I dunno, this makes me happy we have collectively bargained wages at my workplace

I guess the big question is how customizable this will end up being - all the arguments against it seem to assume there’s just an on-off switch, and that seems pretty stupid as anything but a tech demo.

huh, so that’s Thiel’s antichrist I guess

cool

jada, det er noen av oss her :)

may_be@thelemmy.clubOP•2h

fluent in both, I presume?

jøss, det er tre av oss

god bedring, neidu

people converse in Sanskrit? :o

Native Norwegian, fluent in English, can struggle through childrens’ comic books in German and sort of get by in Egyptian Arabic (or at least I could back in the day, but it’s been a while).