I also find many real-life situations come to reflect stuff that happened on my favorite movies and stories and I sure also quote them every chance I have.
My wife hates that but her boyfriend likes it, we found common ground there, only thing is he's more a DC-guy if you know what I mean (I think Marvel has a much richer multiverse, but anyway).
I don't want to derail the conversation obviously, just wanted to let you know ignore the naysayers (I see a few detractor comments on this thread already) and let us true fans enjoy our lore!
* American Indian or Alaska Native
* Asian
* Black or African American
* Hispanic or Latino
* Middle Eastern or North African
* Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
* White
I learned Duck-typing from Ruby: if it talks like a duck, walks like a duck and swims like a duck -- it's a duck.
Applying this to Sam: he's white.
All those communists in the democratic party keep blaming rich white people for all the class warfare issues while there actually arent that many rich white people and there are even less that get involved in politics most of the rich white people are actually rich jews and jews dont consider themselves white.
Jews will help other jews but they dont care about helping anyone else and there isnt anything wrong with that but if your going to stereotype and blame a group of people for their collective actions then you should at least get the group identification correct. If you want to vote based on identity politics then you should understand the different identities and how they actually politically organize. Because right now the actual people with wealth and power have one color of poor people fighting another color of poor people while thinking they are fighting against the rich and the system when that actually is the system, the system is designed to make the poor people fight each other and leave the wealthy alone. Confusing jews and whites is just a part of that system to keep poor people divided and easily conquerable.
Jews are not White. They might occasionally present as such when it is socially or politically convenient (eg. "Diversity is our greatest strength, fellow goyim!") but they are not us. They don't want to be tossed in the same bucket as us, and we don't want them anywhere near us. Stop conflating the two.
Funny that we picked democracy for our government but we just left corporations as little feudal kingdoms. It seems like quite the oversight.
In the world of AI I imagine that Automattic’s core business model is in turmoil.
Ianal but I don't think the laws care about governing structure of corps. You can start a new corp and run it democratically all you want. There are co-ops and other interesting structures out there
Except there's also a bunch of companies with special dual class share structures, where the founder gets way more voting power than everyone else and you can't even buy your way in. A lot of tech companies do this. This is, functionally speaking, an autocracy.
If you want an actual corporate democracy you would need to assign voting rights to everyone working at the company, aka build a co-op. Co-ops are a great corporate structure in a lot of cases but you can't really raise capital that way because VCs all want on your cap table, so all the big companies wind up being plutocracies.
Doesn't this just boil down to planned vs free market economy? I think we've seen over an over again which one works and which one doesn't.
Not at all. Market vs planned economy is about how the economy is set up. Are there businesses that offer products that you can choose between? That's a market economy. You can have that with democratic governance of corporations. The workers can own the means of production and you can have a market economy.
You don't need ownership by idiot dictators with money to have a market.
None of this is settled, because it's a living system that changes over time. What may have been perfectly true in 1850 might not be remotely accurate in 2050.
There’s a whole bureaucracy just to coordinate the implementation at the sector, provincial, and corporate level driven by the State Council, NDRC, and NPC. Governments at all levels are involved with coming up with their own implementation plans to execute on the Five Year Plan.
You can trace decades of Chinese industrial development to those plans but the Chinese system is very different from the Soviet central planning mechanism, which is why I think you’re misinterpreting Alibaba’s price competition. The CCP explicitly allows non-state owned enterprises like Alibaba and the manufacturers on it to compete; that’s their whole point within the system, and they operate within the regulatory environment setup to promote the five year plan instead of quotas like the Soviet system. The resolution of the planning is different, but it’s very much there.
Now go look at the 5 year plan from Beijing. Green technology, robotics, mature node chips, and AI are the focuses.
In other words, it isn’t a mistake that China dominates in the industries that it does.
Have you asked people in China about this?
I often have to think of Bane putting his hand on the shoulder of that Ben Mendelsohn character in The Dark Knight Rises while asking if he feels in charge. Reminds me of living in a western democracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
There have been some govts that mandated this type of organization for part of their economy; we usually refer to that as communism.
(no value judgement here, there are day's when I'm quite a commie myself)
Congratulations you have reinvented communism from first principles! And you are completely correct in your analysis.
That's a hilarious leap.
Look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
And in Russian I believe such a company is called a "Soviet". They idea that the main part of the economy is run by this kind of organizations is one of the best parts of the USSR's attempt at communism.
There is a vast range of ways you can regulate a corporation and only some of them qualify as communism.
Germany has worker councils, it's still not communist.
Several European countries have much stricter regulations on how companies behave that moves them from the absolute power fiefdom internal model, guess what, still not communism.