Daniel Balan

Amen to that!

So then whe should use both systems according to our goals and needs. But my question was mainly about the big sectors like steal and coal, electricity, energy etc, should the state nationalize those or shout the private sector deal with these facets of the economy?

I watched this unbiased and very informative video. But the problem is that there is no definitive answer. What is better? The nationalised state planned economy of the former Ussr, today's China or the economy of the west? I'm asking this question because after the collapse of the Soviet empire and its satellite states, the economy was totally ruined when the state privatised everything. 90's Russia and Eastern Europe was much much worse than in the 80's. The economy totally collapsed when those countries moved to a market economy. Every industry such as steel and coal and all the factories have collapsed totally once they were privatized.

This is not true. Canada and Mexico have entirely different political perspectives and the US has never tried to install puppet governments in neither of them. The US would be more justified to invade Mexico for how much drugs and how many migrants enter illegally to the US than Russia is justified for invading Ukraine with their "Perceived threat" myth. Regarding the evil that the US has done, sure It is a bad look for the west that the US hasn't been punished severely for the huge mess they've done in Iraq. What they've done in Iraq is preposterous and has no excuse.

@Karmadhi well for starters when the US invaded Iraq, it didn't invent 1000 years of false history where claiming that Iraq is not a true state, that it is an invented state, that the US invented and created the statehood of Iraq and that the Iraqi identity is bullshit and that in fact Iraqi identity is a direct result of a NKVD coup d'etat that wanted to separate it to its original identity which has always been American.

Honestly I don't think that is the case. I bet that the audience that reads the blog regularly must be lower than a 1000 people.

Are you for real, do you think someone malicious hacked your blog, or this is just a jab at the stupidity of JP's daughter?

@Apparition of Jack Thank you for the kind words! 🖤 I really appreciate it. In some ways it is bad, I mean the life is very physically demanding and the one thing I don't like about this lifestyle is that every year is the same, always working the fields just to get some food, there isn't anything novel. But on the other side I don't have to pay any rent, I love the nature and the rural landscapes, I have a lot of fresh air and serenity and silence and the best part for me is that the population density is really really low! I hate people and I can't stand crowds. I am a loner and here I can enjoy myself to the fullest extent without others bothering me with their shit. Also I'm not imprisoned here, I could move to western Europe or to other big cities within my country at any time, in fact the car I have I bought it with money earned in Germany, so yeah city life is cool too, but I decided that for my peace of mind, for my serenity, living in a remote rural area is for me like living in a dream. The silence is so loud, so addictive. The forests will keep singing forever.

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@Husseinisdoingfine Thanks a lot for the love. I love you too brother!

I live in a remote area in the country side. There is one timber factory in a city that is like 30 km away but is already full with workers, doesn't employ anymore and other work opportunities are very scarce and very few. I'd love to work with a contract but all those jobs are largely occupied. So I work at whoever needs some help in construction, agriculture, taking care of cows etc. And at home I have animals myself and I have potatoes, so I have food. The money I earn is to pay electricity and internet and to repair my car so I can commute. Note: I'm just explaining this to you guys because you were curious. I don't want you guys to feel sorry for me or to view me as some sort of a poor man that needs compasion or a hug, how I live is how most of the peasants in Eastern Europe or Russia live, it is very normal and nobody is feeling sorry for himself, that is how life is supposed to be in a rural area. We live off the land.

I never worked with a contract. Always worked under the table. I have 0 days worked with legal contract where I pay taxes. If I earn 20$ a day, If I were to pay taxes on that I'd have 10 dollars a day to eat and pay for shit.

I've always worked under the table. I don't have enough money to buy health insurance no matter what. And regarding retirement I will probably never retire.

Bro I'm literally 25 and I never worked a day legally. I have 0 money put aside for retirement. If I injury myself I go bankrupt, I have no health insurance. I work at whoever needs something done. Like bucking wood in the forest, construction work and agriculture work. I litteraly go to farms to shovel cow shit for 20$ a day. And I never complained or bitched or moaned for the government to give me a handout. I am happy the way I am. I don't expect anyone especially the government to help me. I help myself. I think welfare is more than needed, but not financed from deficit spending. Welfare should be financed solely from tax money. Not from public debt. Public debt should finance subsidies for large sectors of economy such as infrastructure, energy etc. Debt should be used to build factories and businesses that generate revenue, not to give UBI to lazy individuals.

@Princess Arabia Likewise 🖤🥳

@Princess Arabia Thanks a lot for the kind words! I really appreciate it. I also love your way of defining your own worldview. Always stay loyal to your character! I prefer being lost in falsehood and being true to myself than being a champion of truth but being untrue to myself.

Yes you make good points but look at France, Italy, The US, The UK, Germany etc. Those countries have trillions upon trillions in public debt. At some point you can no longer sustain welfare when it is all financed via deficit spending. To have a strong welfare you need high taxes. Much higher than today's taxes. France has one of world's most robust welfare system. It is great to have such welfare, but look at its public debt, look at the giant deficit spending every year, look at the out of bounds inflation. In the end inflation will hurt the people more than the welfare can help them ease their life. What is the point of having a cool welfare state if you have to work 3 jobs just to have money for rent and groceries? I'd rather have no welfare and the grocieries and rent to be as low as possible than to have welfare and have 0 free time for myself because I have to work non stop to keep up with inflation to be able just to survive.

When it comes to post-1989 Romania and post-Soviet Russia, the reason these countries went through such hardship in the 1990s compared to the 1980s is that, once COMECON collapsed and their economies were suddenly exposed to the global market, once they shifted from a centrally planned economy to a market one, the curtain was lifted. All the illusions and lies of central planning were laid bare at once, like ripping off a bandage from a wound. The bandage was COMECON itself, along with the repression, propaganda, and dictatorship that had kept the illusion alive.

Or the tractor manufacturer John Deere. No tractor made in the USSR or China could ever compete with the powerhouse tractors made by John Deere or Ford. Market economies are producing quality over quantity whereas in centeal planned economies quantity comes before quality.

I have also worked as a logger in the forest, and there is no chainsaw better than Stihl or Husqvarna. This proves that market economies produce far more better products than any shit that is produced in a central planned economy. I bet my life that the Chinese or other dictatorships will never ever produce anything remotely close to the powerhouse products made by Husqvarna or Stihl. You can only get such supreme quality tools and products in a market economy, in a democracy, in a society that people are happy living.

Man, you are Russian, study the USSR, and why the central planned economy was all just a ruse. When COMECON collapsed with the Soviet Union, and exposed the Russian economy to a globalized market economy, no one really wanted to buy the shit that was built in the USSR or its former puppet states. They said that there is no inflation in a cental economy but in reality on the black market everything was much more expensive by the day compared to the goods that the state sold in their shops. I don't say that we can't learn good aspects from the central planned economy but in my eyes, the market economy is much superior to the central state run economy. There is a reason why the west won the cold war, and that reason alone is the market economy that overpowered the central planned economy.

Hi @Leo Gura, I just watched the first part of the 9 stages of ego development video series and I came to the conclusion that I'm at the expert conventional stage( stage orange). In 2020 when I first listened with full seriousness to the spiral dynamics video series I was for sure at (conformist stage), red/blue, but mostly blue. Now 5 years later I can say that I moved almost entirety to orange. The way my mind and thought process works now is 100% moved away from blue. I wrote this to tell you that you are very correct when you say that it takes at least 5 years of serious work to go up one stage on the spiral. I am the living example of this, 5 years ago being at blue, now I can proudly say that I'm at Orange.

Hail black metal 🖤 Hail Norway 🇳🇴

@Kid A Thanks for reading and for your compassion. I may not be Norwegian by blood, but thanks to Black metal I'm now Norwegian by soul 🖤 I'm still the only atheist in society where I live, I never meet an atheist IRL, but I was the one that marginalized society not the other way around. I'd rather be alone forever than to be friends with those corpse kissing Christians.

Bro you take Leo for a sleazy salesman which I bet my life on the line that he is not that. That is something that Adrew Tate would do, but not Leo. I'm 10000% sure that he will never use his audience as his guinea pig.