It's Women's Fault
So you agree that capitalism is the best way to develop a country. So, capitalism is good? It relocates everytime to a poorer country. Developing that country.
At the end, the whole world will be developed. I'm not an anarchist, so I'm quite fond of governments creating stability in their region. (Not a revolutionary indeed).
North Korea and Cuba joining globalist trade is fine by me. Cuba already sends out their doctors abroad.
Cuba trades a lot with Spain and China.
Problem though. Their doctors would earn more money in other Latin American countries. Which they often do. They emigrate to one of those countries and then have their family live a luxurious life in Havana.
This is because in those other countries, even though same level of wealth, they are self employed as doctors. They get the entire fruits of their labour :)
Competition is very important. Just like you don't want Elon musk to be a monopolist, you don't want a government to be a monopolist either. Competition is necessary.
I don't know much about Vietnam, so I didn't talk about them. Their language makes me go insane not gonna lie 🥲
I did watch documentaries about Cuba though, so talking a bit more about that.
I'm not a fan of revolutions. Look at Libya and Syria. Revolutions aren't good.
If you want to do a revolution, you better accept to live a full generation in pure poverty in the hope that your children will have it better.
Then compare it to a place that has been having stability in the same period.
The place with stability will be stronger on the global scene most likely. Such as Switzerland Vs the rest of Europe that were involved in world war 2.
Stability means growth.
You view me as a pessimist and I view you as a pessimist. You see no other way out than revolution.
I can assure you, in my day to day life I am the optimist. My wife's rather pessimistic aha.
Like when trump crashed the market and I pumped it full. My wife was like "you're having a baby, you need to be careful".
Right now the stocks look green af.
I'm saying I'mma take a 100k euros mortgage.
She's like "we're having a baby, can you even afford that?"
Tsk tsk tsk 🌝
Edit: let's ask my best buddy the cat from mistral AI 😤
Estimating the percentage of revolutions that bring prosperity is challenging due to the varied nature of revolutions and their outcomes. However, based on historical observations, it's clear that while some revolutions have led to significant improvements in economic and political conditions, many others have resulted in instability, conflict, or the rise of new repressive regimes.
Factors that influence the success of a revolution in bringing prosperity include:
- Goals and Leadership: Revolutions with clear goals and competent leadership are more likely to achieve positive outcomes.
- Popular Support: Broad-based support from the population can help stabilize the post-revolutionary period.
- International Context: Support or interference from other countries can significantly impact the revolution's outcome.
- Economic Conditions: The state of the economy before, during, and after the revolution plays a crucial role in determining prosperity.
- Institutional Strength: The ability to establish strong and fair institutions post-revolution is vital for long-term prosperity.
Given these factors, a rough estimate might be that a minority of revolutions—perhaps around 20-30%—lead to sustained economic prosperity and political stability. This estimate is speculative and based on the general understanding that successful revolutions are relatively rare and often face significant challenges in achieving their goals.
Okay...
Leadership? You can do that, I believe in you.
Popular support. No, you simply are a minority.
Nobody in Europe wants a revolution. Guess what the last revolution was, it was to not be communist 😬
International support. You can get China's support
Your ideology doesn't have any allies then. It's used in Cuba and in North Korea. That's all.
In Cuba, they are losing ground because the people don't want the government to have a monopoly on labour.
North Korea is kim's paradise
Your only hope is to brand china communist. But are they?
"The private sector already accounts for over 60% of GDP, 70% of technological innovation, and, more potently, employs over 80% of the workforce across the country's urban cities."
Chinese capitalists own majority stakes everywhere in the world. They control the cobalt in Congo for example.
Well I'd prefer if you could think about the stuff I actually said, but if you wanna just yell at eachother. That's fine too. Honestly it's your choice, I give you both options. I always do
Why are you talking about a revolution in someone else's country
You're aware that the vast majority of revolutions are a disaster for people?
That's their own decision to make
Just fuck up your country, doesn't matter to me. Already made good money on trump crashing the market
Oh, so you look at the amount of wealth in USA and the low taxation rate of 6,5% and think they are there because you people are special? It's because your government chooses to gather as much capital and tax only a small part. Which causes tax revenue to still be beneficial for USA.
Are you going to throw in another ad hominem? Or are you gonna actually say something
Half the country voted for this a 2nd time. They likely have to talk with the 100 million people that are pro trump.
Nah, fuck em
So you're not giving us all the capital that fled to your country because of low taxation?
But I thought you wanted to tax them? Oh but, they can't leave when you tax them, right?
Aight, give the money to us then
Come on, Marxists, you're taking it from the proletariat in the world. Redistribute the wealth to us. You'll do that, right?
Ah, you're a bunch of idiots that don't know how good you have it.
Then stop it. Learn to communicate with eachother before it's too late. Make amends. Stop this bullshit.
Let's see. Belgium has 0,26 gini income inequality. (EU 0,29). We have great hospitals. Uz Leuven and UZ Gent being world top class hospitals. When my wife will give birth, it will cost us 300 euros. Median income in the country is 3800 euros gross. Which comes to about 2600 euros net.
Schooling is tax paid. There are like no private schools here because who would want to fund that (there's one in Brussels, would cost 500k euros to have your kid schooled there till age 18, while public schools get funding from taxes). Higher eduction costs like 1 month wage to fund a bachelor's degree tuition wise.
Median net wealth per adult is 250k euros. Puts us alongside Australia, Luxembourg and Iceland.
We have unions, personally I'm with ABVV, which is the socialist variant. They help with certain stuff. Went there when I was unemployed for 3 months.
There's unemployment benefits for 2 years. Only the first year is good income. Not really necessary to be longer than 1 year imo.
Quite some sick leave. Medical bankruptcy isn't a thing here. There's a maximum invoice per household per year. Which is a pretty low sum. Depends on income level too. Can easily be as low as 500 euros per year.
Maternity leave is decent, my wife is on maternity leave starting 1 august until 1 February.
Child benefits exist. My wife will get 250 euros from that every month I think. At birth she gets 1250 euros too. And we get a free stroller and car seat. Quite good quality too.
There's an issue with the amount of daycares. Just no space. But starting age 3, the kid will just go to school. Which is properly funded.
Public transport.. there's rails everywhere. 80% of trains are for commuting in Europe. Belgium is no exception. I don't have a car, there's no need for it.
They are building bike lanes alongside the train rails for car free commutes.
It's very tax friendly to lease an e bike with your company. It uses the taxes on your end of the year bonus. Basically turns a 1500 euros net bonus into a 4500 euros bonus. Allows people to lease a premium quality e bike for commute and buy it after 3 years for 15% of original value.
There's always investment in social housing.
We've got quite a lot of immigrants. Immigrating is really easy. My wife basically went from Indonesia to Belgium with a tourist EU visum. We married and then she never had to leave. Since I have housing and a job.
Psychologist costs 11 euros per session, psychologist gets 85 euros for it.
Trans people can get sex change surgeries and hormones funded by tax money.
One of the earliest countries to allow gay marriage.
47% of EU electricity was generated with renewables in 2024.
Government funded the purchase of electric cars quite a bit until now. Same with solar panels.
Buying a house costs 3% tax if it's your only house that you will live in. Otherwise it's 12%.
There's a lot of funding to teach immigrants Dutch.
Cleaning is the stereotype job for immigrants that don't speak Dutch, since that job is funded 2/3rd with tax money. The client pays 10 euros per hour and the cleaner earns 13,64 euros per hour. + Free e bike. Can get this job without speaking Dutch, because there's just such a high demand.
We have a lot of doctors per capita.
Walkable cities like Ghent, Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp, .... All cities are walkable.
High social mobility. A lot can be achieved within 1 generation.
It's a pretty nice country. But my wife does call it boring as fuck 🤷🏻♂️
Thanks for the detailed report, bout USA my only information is social media which is limited. I did see a rise in bottom 50%'s wealth % during Biden's term. But the income gini is still 0,42 so I suppose that's meaningless.
About 20% of the Flemish people voted for Vlaams belang, they are in general the less educated folks.
That's why Vlaams belang has to portray themselves as "for the man". Bring back industry to Belgium, promote manual labour jobs for Belgians.
It's just a stunt, because they (together with the Marxists) are banished from being in the government. They always are in opposition. The other parties long ago agreed to that.
Vlaams belang is the 2nd largest party now, but in opposition. Luckily. The only issue is that they can always complain about anything that went wrong and promise heaven if people vote for them. Then when shove comes to push "oops, sorry guys we can't help, we wish we could, but we're in opposition". They've never actually had to prove themselves capable leaders. They get paid well though.
Aight, I agree it's better to give positive help at one group instead of trying to punish the other.
Have at it, fuck your country up. Europe and China will love to exploit a weakened America
Aight, I'm a social democrat. Am I a leftist?
Liberals are socially leftist. LGBTQ stuff, women empowerment, environment stuff, pro universal healthcare, ...
Personally I view american politics as right wingers compared to west Europe, but oh well.
They still are viewed as a hundred million people on this planet that vote for the left side of their country's politicians.
It's not that easy with USA. Bernie Sanders is likely the most left wing there. AOC likely the same.
Joe Biden was less left wing, but he still helped people out during the pandemic compared to what republican's would have done.
Here in Belgium you have more choice. You can choose between anti immigration, regionalists, liberals, Christian centrists, environmentalists, social democrats and Marxists.
Broader choice. Here in Belgium the left wing is considered environmentalists, social democrats and Marxists.
While liberals, although socially left wing, are economically right wing. Basically the party for the small entrepreneurs. The other right wing party is more for the multinationals. While the anti immigration party actually is quite socialist economically, but the same old "own people first" shit. It just so happens that being a conservative in Belgium means being somewhat of a socialist economically.
Pretty funny, there's not much difference between extreme right and extreme left here. Basically just.. is the socialist a racist or not lol
Are you not? Why else are you so ashamed?