Subj : Re: Your opinions on communism
To   : All
From : Real User
Date : Thu Apr 17 2025 06:27 am

On 2024-06-10, Kirk Spragg <Kirk.Spragg@f420.n105.z1.fidonet> wrote:
>
>  mg> Definitely one of my favourite series of books, well most of it at
>  mg> least, there are 3-5 of them I didn't feel fit the series or I couldn't
>  mg> get into.  Great recommendation though
>
> I've read most of them, some are quite different thats for sure. Which ones
> did you not like or thought didn't fit the series?
>
>  mg> did they get?  Thinking about it, India got the first mover advantage in
>  mg> the realm of outsourced services and China for manufacturing and
>  mg> commodities, I have to think that the former is going to scale better
>  mg> over time than the latter.  We'll see how things shake out regardless,
>  mg> the more I read the more I get the impression that China's economy is
>  mg> all built on a house of cards.
>  mg> 
>
> It does seem like China's economy is ready to collapse in some way, as per my response to Dr What, it looks like China's regional governments' over reliance on borrowing to fund real estate projects which they try to sell for a profit has failed badly... I wonder how they'll try to fix that mess.
>
> ... Define the universe and give three examples.
>
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I'm centrist, maybe left-leaned. Social-democrat/eurocommunism, but with quirks.

On healthcare I'm socialistic, truly hardcore.
In my European country it's a true gem.

On telecomms, pretty classical liberal. Before 
liberalisation, the state telecomm (monopoly, think
about something like AT&T but for an European country)
was expensive as hell, and long distance calls were a theft.
You paid something close to $20 back in the 
day for half an hour (or an hour).
Also, prices were per minute, and once the second
hit the clock, you paid 30:00 minutes the same you
would pay for 30:59.

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