You're thinking in context of a free society built on Western model. China is not one, and context you're using for your conclusion simply doesn't apply.
For example, you're thinking that 23 million people here will have common cause. In reality, they will not. Instead, they will be motivated to backstab others so that they can climb back into party favour. We've seen this already in other communist states. You're also forgetting that 23 million is almost irrelevant by Chinese standards. This is a country that brutally oppressed hundreds of millions in Cultural Revolution to a far harsher degree and killed many tens of millions at the same time. Which strengthened the party and its grip on power in China, not weaken it as would have likely happened in a society built on Western model.
The rest already addressed the fact that you have as much understanding of how market economy works as an average citizen of Soviet Union. Someone filled your head with absurd propaganda, which you're regurgitating with nary a thought of your own.
I will however address the last point, which hasn't really been addressed. As with the rest of your state, the opposite is in fact true. It's very easy to cancel subsidies for company that already has massive sunk costs in the region, because for company to relocate, they'd have to abandon all investment in the region. So the math becomes simple and brutal: is subsidy differential from relocating greater than value of investments you can't move? This includes everything from investment in walls to investment in education system producing specialists for your field to ready and experienced specialists people who already have local contacts and key know-how and won't move because their families are there.
Lapland is going to exist without smelters too. But just like New York, it's going to have to adapt to being significantly poorer. So the subsidies for New York's crumbling subway for example won't be as affordable, and Lapland municipalities would have to apply for state aid to perform its legally mandated educational functions. As some already do.
As for the rest, I get the feeling you've bought Sanders' lies about Scandianvian countries being socialist. We have an entire complex interwoven negotiation system between state government, local government, workers unions and employers unions which can adjust everything from state subsidies and laws to minimum worker pay per sector. The entire purpose of such systems is to maintain companies' competitiveness in free market economy while being small nations easily bounced around by world trends. So the scenario you're talking about with state subsidies for new companies resulting in mostly shit jobs is well known here, because our system resulted in this scenario long before it became real in US. The difference is in the mindset, shit jobs are still jobs worth doing well. It's why non-temp toilet cleaners around here usually have a few years of education on how to clean toilets.
For example, your whining about the local taxation? Exactly the same situation here in Finland. What do you think funds that "wonderful free education and cheap medical care"? It's how we get to those crazy high taxes americans see and scream how we tolerate them and not outright rebel against such, in their eyes, insanity. It's about having a right mindset and negotiated trade-offs within the system.
That is the communist model of "everyone should have equal outcomes regardless of merit". It simply doesn't work in real life because no two individuals are the same. And businesses ultimately are made out of individuals.
For example, here in Finland the solution to this problem is to have high progressive income taxes, low business taxes, and then have state government, local government, workers' union and employers' union all interlinked in complex network of negotiations over everything from salaries and worker conditions in each field to various tax levels, tax breaks and other incentives. It works specifically because it can adjust when business is in trouble and lower its burdens to the society to keep it afloat over tough times so it can flourish a few years later as cyclical nature of market economy goes through its ups and downs.
Your "only action" is the action where all businesses leave, because all they will see is the unflinching communist apparatchik unwilling to address any merits of each case and instead simply repeating the mantra of "all are equal regardless of merits, and if you don't like it, fuck off". So any sane individual would indeed fuck right off and leave the apparatchik live the life of inescapable poverty.
I've seen this mindset in Soviet Union. It's what led to its disintegration when Gorbachev finally decided to fix it. "Better be dirt poor and equal than wealthy but at different income levels".
Here in Finland I can cite quite a few off the top of my head. For example, pretty much all of the large nickel etc smelters we have in small regions in Lapland. They're literally the main reason some small townships exist any more.
Same goes for things like huge cellulose and carton factories also typically located in a small township willing to give a lot more of subsidies and tax breaks than large city. And in return, the company tends to pay a huge share of local tax income, as well as employ people. One needs not look beyond what happens to towns that have such a factory go broke and/or leave to understand the impact and importance of inviting and keeping industry.
No, it's New York. The city where mafia doesn't really do the standard violence racketeering, but the regulations racketeering. Not "it would be a shame if something happened to your business" but "it would be a shame if city [x] inspector was to visit you and be really thorough".
That part of New York is so legendary among people doing business, that it's known even far abroad.
You fall in the last category - utterly ignorant of how cheating on PC multiplayer commonly works.
Cheaters overwhelmingly don't develop cheats. They buy them from vendors. Vendors who among other things, take great care in not getting their paying customers banned due to cheat detections. And you don't need consistent security from cheaters. You just need to nail their nice, expensive account with time invested in it once ever couple of months. Most people give up at that point. Almost everyone gives up after losing a second account.
The fact that games I like can get ruined by cheaters is more than enough for the attitude. Rampant cheating kills games.
And I agree, cheating field is cancer. Which is why anti-cheats have to be invasive to cure it. When disease is both as virulent and as lethal as modern cheating in multiplayer games is, cure working is more important that cure triggering a few idealists and cheaters.
Should be interesting to see if it manages to become popular enough to replace website implementations for more than just the actual dissenters from mainstream if youtube et al start to clamp down on comment sections that hard.
You're either someone who is into cheating, developer of cheat engines, or utterly ignorant of how cheating in PC multiplayer games commonly works.
Or you're an absolute guru in the field, and can code a solution that works and doesn't require it. In which case, I have a question. Why are you posting here instead of picking up that easy ten to eleven digit pay-off?
Not at this stage of societal control. Many of the Western countries are directionally aligned with China on this one, but are reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally far behind.
The chance of war is still almost zero, because MAD is in effect. That's why essentially all warfare between the two has been between military and proxy militias. Not military vs military, because that would trigger MAD.
That attempt has basically died out once MS backed off the windows store push. Almost no AAA titles, the big sellers in the industry are ported for linux. There's no market that matters there. Overwhelming majority of linux users will boot windows to play anyway, and that's reality of today.
The only reason for this is the catastrophic failure of xbone in this round of console wars. It didn't just lose to PS4. It got utterly crushed by it. The only saving grace has been the fact that since xbone, PS4 and modern gaming PCs are very similar in terms of architecture, it's fairly cheap to make versions for all of them after one version is done.
You can fully expect that if MS manages to reverse this, it will adapt policies more in line with its past policies when xbox platform was significantly better positioned in console wars, and similar to policies adopted by the current undisputed leader Sony. Maximum lockdown of the platform to maximize monetization potential.
Are you seeing Indian and Pakistani armies going to war?
As the answer here is no, and considering that there is plenty of actual war between the two in recent history, why are you lying in context by taking a single story out of context?
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You're thinking in context of a free society built on Western model. China is not one, and context you're using for your conclusion simply doesn't apply.
For example, you're thinking that 23 million people here will have common cause. In reality, they will not. Instead, they will be motivated to backstab others so that they can climb back into party favour. We've seen this already in other communist states. You're also forgetting that 23 million is almost irrelevant by Chinese standards. This is a country that brutally oppressed hundreds of millions in Cultural Revolution to a far harsher degree and killed many tens of millions at the same time. Which strengthened the party and its grip on power in China, not weaken it as would have likely happened in a society built on Western model.
You are harassing me with these statements, and should be run off all social media platforms for it.
Organisations like those that run trains in China you mean?
Citation for what? Existence of smelters in Lapland? Have you tried google before trolling?
Revenue after operating costs is income. Income is not profit. You still need to pay off your purchase price for example.
Liability is simply a term for "owning the consequences". His point stands.
Or local conditions are too high risk without subsidies and other commitments from locals.
The rest already addressed the fact that you have as much understanding of how market economy works as an average citizen of Soviet Union. Someone filled your head with absurd propaganda, which you're regurgitating with nary a thought of your own.
I will however address the last point, which hasn't really been addressed. As with the rest of your state, the opposite is in fact true. It's very easy to cancel subsidies for company that already has massive sunk costs in the region, because for company to relocate, they'd have to abandon all investment in the region. So the math becomes simple and brutal: is subsidy differential from relocating greater than value of investments you can't move? This includes everything from investment in walls to investment in education system producing specialists for your field to ready and experienced specialists people who already have local contacts and key know-how and won't move because their families are there.
Lapland is going to exist without smelters too. But just like New York, it's going to have to adapt to being significantly poorer. So the subsidies for New York's crumbling subway for example won't be as affordable, and Lapland municipalities would have to apply for state aid to perform its legally mandated educational functions. As some already do.
As for the rest, I get the feeling you've bought Sanders' lies about Scandianvian countries being socialist. We have an entire complex interwoven negotiation system between state government, local government, workers unions and employers unions which can adjust everything from state subsidies and laws to minimum worker pay per sector. The entire purpose of such systems is to maintain companies' competitiveness in free market economy while being small nations easily bounced around by world trends. So the scenario you're talking about with state subsidies for new companies resulting in mostly shit jobs is well known here, because our system resulted in this scenario long before it became real in US. The difference is in the mindset, shit jobs are still jobs worth doing well. It's why non-temp toilet cleaners around here usually have a few years of education on how to clean toilets.
For example, your whining about the local taxation? Exactly the same situation here in Finland. What do you think funds that "wonderful free education and cheap medical care"? It's how we get to those crazy high taxes americans see and scream how we tolerate them and not outright rebel against such, in their eyes, insanity. It's about having a right mindset and negotiated trade-offs within the system.
That is the communist model of "everyone should have equal outcomes regardless of merit". It simply doesn't work in real life because no two individuals are the same. And businesses ultimately are made out of individuals.
For example, here in Finland the solution to this problem is to have high progressive income taxes, low business taxes, and then have state government, local government, workers' union and employers' union all interlinked in complex network of negotiations over everything from salaries and worker conditions in each field to various tax levels, tax breaks and other incentives. It works specifically because it can adjust when business is in trouble and lower its burdens to the society to keep it afloat over tough times so it can flourish a few years later as cyclical nature of market economy goes through its ups and downs.
Your "only action" is the action where all businesses leave, because all they will see is the unflinching communist apparatchik unwilling to address any merits of each case and instead simply repeating the mantra of "all are equal regardless of merits, and if you don't like it, fuck off". So any sane individual would indeed fuck right off and leave the apparatchik live the life of inescapable poverty.
I've seen this mindset in Soviet Union. It's what led to its disintegration when Gorbachev finally decided to fix it. "Better be dirt poor and equal than wealthy but at different income levels".
Here in Finland I can cite quite a few off the top of my head. For example, pretty much all of the large nickel etc smelters we have in small regions in Lapland. They're literally the main reason some small townships exist any more.
Same goes for things like huge cellulose and carton factories also typically located in a small township willing to give a lot more of subsidies and tax breaks than large city. And in return, the company tends to pay a huge share of local tax income, as well as employ people. One needs not look beyond what happens to towns that have such a factory go broke and/or leave to understand the impact and importance of inviting and keeping industry.
No, it's New York. The city where mafia doesn't really do the standard violence racketeering, but the regulations racketeering. Not "it would be a shame if something happened to your business" but "it would be a shame if city [x] inspector was to visit you and be really thorough".
That part of New York is so legendary among people doing business, that it's known even far abroad.
I'm sorry they didn't ban you earlier from whatever game it was that you got banned and salty.
A game with a enough cheaters among thousands is a dead game. A game that kills one OS is still enjoyable and playable on other OS's.
So the answer is obvious, unless you're a cheater.
You fall in the last category - utterly ignorant of how cheating on PC multiplayer commonly works.
Cheaters overwhelmingly don't develop cheats. They buy them from vendors. Vendors who among other things, take great care in not getting their paying customers banned due to cheat detections. And you don't need consistent security from cheaters. You just need to nail their nice, expensive account with time invested in it once ever couple of months. Most people give up at that point. Almost everyone gives up after losing a second account.
That's why you get ban waves nowadays.
The fact that games I like can get ruined by cheaters is more than enough for the attitude. Rampant cheating kills games.
And I agree, cheating field is cancer. Which is why anti-cheats have to be invasive to cure it. When disease is both as virulent and as lethal as modern cheating in multiplayer games is, cure working is more important that cure triggering a few idealists and cheaters.
This happens around the same time that dissenter add-on for most popular browsers came out:
https://dissenter.com/
Should be interesting to see if it manages to become popular enough to replace website implementations for more than just the actual dissenters from mainstream if youtube et al start to clamp down on comment sections that hard.
You're either someone who is into cheating, developer of cheat engines, or utterly ignorant of how cheating in PC multiplayer games commonly works.
Or you're an absolute guru in the field, and can code a solution that works and doesn't require it. In which case, I have a question. Why are you posting here instead of picking up that easy ten to eleven digit pay-off?
Not at this stage of societal control. Many of the Western countries are directionally aligned with China on this one, but are reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally far behind.
The chance of war is still almost zero, because MAD is in effect. That's why essentially all warfare between the two has been between military and proxy militias. Not military vs military, because that would trigger MAD.
Why do you persist in lying about this?
Has it ever occurred to you that you're not RT's audience?
That attempt has basically died out once MS backed off the windows store push. Almost no AAA titles, the big sellers in the industry are ported for linux. There's no market that matters there. Overwhelming majority of linux users will boot windows to play anyway, and that's reality of today.
The only reason for this is the catastrophic failure of xbone in this round of console wars. It didn't just lose to PS4. It got utterly crushed by it. The only saving grace has been the fact that since xbone, PS4 and modern gaming PCs are very similar in terms of architecture, it's fairly cheap to make versions for all of them after one version is done.
You can fully expect that if MS manages to reverse this, it will adapt policies more in line with its past policies when xbox platform was significantly better positioned in console wars, and similar to policies adopted by the current undisputed leader Sony. Maximum lockdown of the platform to maximize monetization potential.
Are you seeing Indian and Pakistani armies going to war?
As the answer here is no, and considering that there is plenty of actual war between the two in recent history, why are you lying in context by taking a single story out of context?