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"John Ganz is a Stalinist, Marxist, Leninist, Trotskyist and Pol Potist. There’s really no better word for what he is. For some reason, people have a lot of trouble grasping this or just coming out and saying it."

"Where does John Ganz speak from?" (Also a famous Marxist strategy to disqualify the opponent.)

Does this open a debate or disqualify and vilify the author?

Why is attacking the person instead of his ideas getting the norm? Lake of arguments? Standardization of activism? Bolsheviks' tactics (Make them swallow the word, they will swallow the thing.)?

The day Google will fix its killing product policy, I may invest time and money on them.

> So, I do think it is good for wages to go up [...]

It can be. But too much it auto-fuels the inflation which is the feared scenario: inflation a-la-seventies.

Have you read the minutes of the FOMC? Because I did and it made me a little pessimistic.

"We can't allow a wage price spiral to happen."

So if you have counter arguments, it would really brighten my day and allow me to see the future a little less dark. Thanks.

Jerome Powell announced an important factor for you during the last FOMC meeting: "We can't allow a wage price spiral to happen."

This means that the FED will certainly increase the unemployment rate and put pressure on companies. Why? Because they do not want a 70s type of inflation auto-fueled by wage increases which is actually already the case in the US but not in Europe.

During a time of layoffs, HR uses generally a LIFO (Last In First Out) list. => Changing job adds risk.

As several have noted: Work is not an individual sport (Forget the tv shows). You need allies. Working on your social skills will increase your income faster than changing job. And it will decrease your probabilities to be fire if (when?) a recession hits.

People are applauding that Western countries send these weapons but will cry when terrorists will buy them on the black market...

"God laughs at men who complain of the consequences while cherishing the causes." (Bossuet)

I can only see a list of suffering people without expected outcome: North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, URSS, Cuba, etc.

(Genuine question to History geeks) Do we have an exemple of mass sanctions on a country that worked? Why are we repeating strategies that do not seem to work?

Theses sanctions seems to be designed to only short term please the people/voters/journalists of the sanctioning countries but are terrible to the sanctioned country/people long term without solving anything.

Why not punishing only the government: cancel all visas to the people working in the gov and especially their family. So no more rich gov kids in Western universities, etc.

I find a little unfair to punish people to push them in the streets and have them arrested, tortured or "administratively" punished (remember what happen after the Turkey coup in 2016? Military were punished but also many people working in the public sector.)

On the contrary. If you cannot trust the people being informed properly in an efficient political system, it means that you have an issue somewhere.

Not trusting the people because we think that most are too dumb means that we praise a census suffrage or indirect form of it.

I am Swiss. I am often disappointed by vote results. The system is not perfect. But at least we decided.

(Swiss speaking) What is important is that the vote/referendum process must be slow. Very slow.

We often see a trendy referendum being launched because of an event. Years later when we finally have to vote about it, we realize that it was only an historical parenthesis.

Soft plastics on my nikon are an issue. I have noticed that they tend to deteriorate quickly on beach holidays. I suspect it is a combination of Sun, residues of solar cream on the hands and the salt in the air.

Now it is only politics because they are afraid of the Olympics exposure and to appear weak on TVs worldwide because they are not controlling covid.

Let's wait the end of the Beijing Olympic Games. I bet they will change their covid strategy and fully re-open for business because they need it.