That would be a fresh take, on Lemmy.

The weird thing it that the most socialist stratum by far now (the upper middle class) is also the one that owns most of the capital.

The lower class is getting more and more right-wing, if anything. It’s definitely a new age.

Yeah, giving somebody’s personal manifesto as a source is always a bad sign. I don’t care if it’s Naomi Klein or Ayn Rand. TBF I learned a bit about the history anyway.

If they dissolved the crown corporation and made it part of some ministry again, I doubt much would change.

Yeah, it’s unclear if OP meant just daily delivery or mail in general, but there are still a lot of things that want snail mail.

Yup, the big Reddit exodus to this point, as far as I’m aware.

Lemmy is very slowly shrinking, so hopefully there’s another coming. Maybe geopolitics could do it.

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How does who saw it first effect if it’s right or wrong? It doesn’t.

Besides, monarchist mercantilists were doing it before unions were really a thing.

They did talk about it taking a long time.

I mean, that’s basically the government’s official policy right now, and they’re doing well in the polls.

He hates free trade, and is a “tariff man”. If you agree with him, okay. Don’t pretend you don’t.

No problem! Glad to hear someone else appreciates it the same way.

One explanation would basically be cronyism in a country where there’s endemic corruption and the government intervenes a lot, and however it wants. It’s a pretty classic story from economies all over.

The funny thing about that is that the CCP actually tends to leave certain sectors alone, more than the West even would. It’s like a hybrid Confucian/Maoist thing where they don’t want to concern themselves with the merchant class. (All I have for evidence on that one is hearsay, sorry)

You can watch the beds shrinking in designs over time, because an ego never hangs over the back.

There’s vehicles that are literally just an SUV with a short segment of missing roof now.

TBF it’s Alberta, but like 80% of the ones I see are more on the brodozer end of the spectrum than on the practical vintage car side. Even tradies have to make do with the bigger, higher models these days because that’s what’s available, although they use and maintain them very differently.

The interesting thing here is that that’s actually proportional to how they want to grow non-US trade across the board. There’s no special preference for Europe being shown.

Demand is low. You can find small cars, but they’re poor sellers. Talk to the random people IRL about cars and you’ll hear a lot of “what if I need to move a mattress”-type comments.

Maybe demand is artificially low from past regulation mistakes, and the resulting aggressive advertising, but that’s about it.

Step 2 would basically grind the economy to a stop the way COVID did. That’s 3/4 of our trade right now.

You’re right actually, now that I check it looks like the proportional drop is big but not faster than their historical growth. That big growth means until recently it’s more ramp shaped in absolute terms.

IIRC the wealth of the bottom half actually went up proportionally during the New Deal/post-WWII, although that’s about the only peacetime period it’s ever happened in. Not sure about income, although I’d guess the same.

The World Inequality Database. I’d do a TL;DR, but I’d be reinventing the wheel.

It’s important to know this is about wealth, while @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca is going by income. If you’re out to defend China, you could say sure, they own less and less but the government will look after them, and make sure wages stay high. If that’s a good bet in light of history is another question.

Yeah, usually that’s true of anything you could trade on. Either the facts are already priced in or the irrationality could last longer than any available options contract (like with the AI bubble).

If I had been trading at certain critical moments recently I would have made a profit, though.