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flamingo_pinyata

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Taking history into account I get some sympathy for the current mess that is Egypt. They’ve been ruled by foreign powers (with a couple of short interruptions) 525BC-1952CE. More than 2000 years. No wonder establishing a functional country is hard.

Edit - misunderstood the meme thinking it’s about all of North Africa including Egypt. Still it applies

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Many companies and investors laugh at the idea of dividends, believing that stock price is the only thing that matters

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Fentanyl - ruining the pleasure of enjoying safe drugs since 2014

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It’s such a harmful aspect of American culture not just in this case - they treat White and Black people as fundamentally different and separate, and each must have it’s own kind of healthcare.

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Mainstream audiences caught up with the idea of brainrot slang, killing the very point of it

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I don’t think there’s all-in-one best option

library size

Deezer

how much is paid to the creator

Bandcamp

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The idea of superblocks dates back to urban planning ideas of 1930s. Unfortunately it got coupled to awful building quality and car dependent mobility. It reached the peak of popularity in the 1960s communist world.

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There’s no benefits as such. It’s not an intentional process. Success and money attract more success and money. In short term it’s beneficial in long term it’s a disaster.
In some ways it’s another rehash of the tragedy of the commons.

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Quite the contrary if the flaw is built into the base of the system. If you base the economic system around the accumulation of property, you can’t expect people to do things out of abstract ideals. Your idea of capitalism requires selflessness and altruism which are not rewarded in that system.

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Technically yes. But there would be a strong incentive to undo any safeguards. Basically you’d have to ban or limit inheritance completely.

The problem with relying on accumulation of money as a measure of success is that money == power. Once you have a critical mass of wealthy people it would be easy to change any laws to allow for nepotism again.

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