I was thinking about the US lately. Can’t remember why exactly maybe some friends popped up on my Facebook.

But I decided it actually wouldn’t be that bad of a place to live. If it wasn’t for the toxic work culture.

If they worked normal hours and had 20+ holidays it would be alright. Other shit annoy me and you would have to make sure you live in the nice areas but I could live there and enjoy it. But the work culture is an absolute no go. Wish they were like the Aussie. Show up do hard day of work fuck off for some beers. If the surfs good call in sick and end up seeing your boss in the line up. Work hard for a few months then decide fuck it and go to Bali for a weekend accidentally stay there for two months then decide you need to go back to work because travelling is too much effort walk into a job 1 week after landing home.

Capitalism working as intended.

Supply and demand. In this case means higher wages.

And no, the hypothetical of the robot skyscrapers is not “meaningless.”

It’s not meaningless in itself. Its meaningless to the conversation. It’s literally a hypothetical you invented for no reason. You’re just rambling.

Are you actually trying to claim that if the population was much smaller than it is today total resource use across the globe would be the same?

Because if not my point stands.

A lot of people think rockets can be very profitable. Its just a long term bet and you lack imagination. I would need to check but I’m pretty certain spacex is profitable.

Those other companies are still in R and D.

The only billionaire I know of that is launching rockets is Elon Musk.

That’s just evidence that capitalism is efficient. Because SpaceX has revolutionised space travel making the only reusable rocket doing something all the government agencies said was impossible. NASAs new unbuilt rocket is using tech from the 1970 that they are going to throe away into the ocean on every launch.

The rest you say is meaningless. How you expect this robotic skyscrapers to be built? Some MIT masters project or some capitalist experiment?

There has been efficiency gains throughout. Capitalism is amazing for that, far better than other systems.

The problem is too many people. If standard of living is to increase then the resource requirement is due to massive unsustainable population growth.

That and the fact the public hate externalities and don’t want them used at all never mind aggressively.

They always are and they know it.

Doesn’t matter at that level it’s all part of the game.

Melbourne is a city of tryhards

The point of the question is to show how limited that information actually is. Just look at how small the Wikipedia article is.

No one is denying English people have set foot on Nicaragua. But to claim that’s what the joke is about is stupid.

No one is going to hear that joke and think “hahaha that’s a about a settlement in 1633! What an absolute reference! Classic”

If you asked about British/English colonialism it would take forever for the members of the public to reference Nicaragua.

Right. So you think people know that and that’s what the joke is about?

Of course none of this matters.

If you were making a joke then it was poorly constructed and I missed it. Pyrflie made the same joke but better and I laughed when I read that. Yours comes across as factually incorrect “acktually”.

We seem to have a disagreement about what the joke is about and I’m willing to be proven wrong by Brits. That’s all I’m saying. Short of Noel himself showing up other British people are going to know the meaning of the joke best. Until then I think you are misleading people.

Christ alive. Look jokes works because of peoples understanding of it. If you think English involvement in Nicaragua is common knowledge enough for a joke on colonialism then fucking hell you must think more of the education of the general public than me. As fair as I know American involvement in Nicaragua is way more common knowledge than English involvement there which breaks the joke.

But it is all meaningless anyway because the joke isn’t about that.

This website is weird at times. Joke about American’s education gets turned into a history of colonialism and the breakdown of a what makes a joke, a joke. I’m going to the pub.

That’s the biggest stretch in the world.

The joke is about education systems. If it was about British interest overseas he would have said something like “Yes, we are English. We take a lot of interest in far away lands”.

I’m not saying he wouldn’t make that joke, it’s a normal enough joke for Brit to make. But he is certainly joking about quality in education in this case as he mentions it. You are just imagining the world as you want it to be, not seeing it for how it is.

Let’s wait for the Brits to wake up and see what their view is.

It’s absolutely not.

What’s Nicaragua got to do with British colonialism? It’s about Americans being ignorant of other countries.

That doesn’t excuse the Americans though

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Holy shit you guys have sales tax? Really living in the 1800’s there.

Well that’s just the level of economic understanding on this website. Immigrants get everything for free but everyone else pays for society at large.

That’s not how fact checking works.

Someone’s made a stupid text on image post incorrectly comparing things and didn’t even back that up.

From an economic perspective it’s largely the same.

Research and development is important for long term growth that’s why governments do their best to financially encourage it.

But this is Lemmy. Might as well be talking to a spam sandwich when it comes to economics.

How much was paid with employee income tax? How much was paid with VAT?

How much did immigrants take out of the system?

This is the most biased one sided comparison.

It’s strange how in the when businesses employee people and that wage gets taxed that’s 100% on the employee. But when a business sells a product and it gets taxed that’s 100% on the customer.

I don’t see how that goes against anything I have said? That just supports what I said if anything.

There is a shit load of gold out their in minute concentrations