HobbitFoot

China is definitely pumping money into its manufacturing capabilities, but I don’t think cornering the international market is why.

What appears to be happening is that local officials pushed an industrial development policy to make economic numbers go up. Some provinces got to the point of building factories and leasing them out to companies for that sweet economic growth.

The Chinese national government is trying to find a market for this since it can’t afford for all Chinese local investment to be bad. Developing countries don’t have the funds for the cheap solar output and the other industrialized nations are putting up trade barriers since they are running massive trade deficits with China already.

He’s expecting the far right to do a shit job at governing while he is still President and hopes this kills their popularity.

Reform property taxes to avoid squeezing out homeowners.

California has that property tax; it is not going as well as you would hope. It helps encourage communities to keep from allowing more density and freezes people in their homes as they will never be able to afford moving within their communities.

Lemmy was designed to be a place where communists would have a community. Some instances weren’t, but a lot of the original ones were.

That’s fine, but someone has to pay for it.

It is been a plan for a while in the USA to shift launches from government run to private run for over a decade. This is just an implementation of that strategy.

I never said people weren’t allowed, but there is this weird obsession about it on Lemmy.

Then cancel and move on.

The way that people talk about it here, a streaming service raising rates is the equivalent of a significant other dumping them.

Mega ad tier.

For now. YouTube is already starting to dedicate serious resources to anti ad blocking. I’m sure other streaming services aren’t that far behind.

Yeah. Netflix got really lucky with streaming for as long as they did and they knew it. Cable and broadcast subsidized their content and they were able to lease it for pennies on the dollar.

Of course, people don’t want to admit that the subsidy for their content is gone and they are pissed about rising costs.

What other company or government could do this?

The Chinese national government has a surplus, but the local and provincial governments are running massive deficits and have been for a while. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of these actions are to free up cash for the necessary wealth transfer to keep the popping of the property bubble from becoming too catastrophic to the retiring population.

Organization trumps money. The problem is that a lot of progressive organizations aren’t able to mobilize voters for elections like this.

The answer is slightly more complicated than that.

Part of the problem is that a lot of mass transit was built in the USA by private companies to make a profit. This went from trolley lines in small cities to large parts of the NYC Subway and almost all commuter and interciry rail.

Most mass transit systems ended up being built as loss leaders to develop suburban property. After the property was developed, the incentive to maintain mass transit dropped. Along with that, rail companies generally hated passenger service and preferred freight instead.

It eventually got to the point where the private company would collapse and there was little political will to maintain service. There was some lobbying done by auto companies, but a lot of it came from cities and states too cheap to make transit a public good with public funding.

Has Brazil offered to intervene?

And they have not built their system with long term staging/replacement in mind. A lot of their shorter bridges don’t look like they are designed for staged maintenance. Also, the political will to build is different than the political will to maintain.

No, but my job includes producing and verifying calculations.

We already deal with computer models, but there is a concept of “garbage in, garbage out” where the model is garbage because the inputter didn’t understand what to put in the model or even what model should be used.

So the modeling may be more efficient, but the budget gets blown in verification because the model is crap.

I think it is more writing to people for whom that is the case.

The economy is shifting to a set of haves and have-nots. The problems that the haves deal with are tied a lot more to economic performance than have-nots.

You also have a case where unemployment is still low, with a lot of the issue being tied to low minimum wages. Usually, the problems that have-nots have with the economy have been tied to unemployment. You can get a job in this economy, it just won’t be well paying.

Yeah. They were supposed to have a year of hell. The best they could do was a two parter where everything went back to normal in the end.