POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

[Rylinks]

what does the US do well

[s. goblin]

I don't mean I buy $800 Armani suits lol, just that I buy clothes from clothes manufacturers, like everyone else.

i figured this was just a thing like how if you came from a country that made good food or had good restaurants or something you would just assume it was the same in NA

like, in NA,, our clothes are made in the shittiest cheapest way possible, from the shittiest cheapest material possible, plastic.

buying clothes from people that actually makes clothes is like a dream. granted you can at least get linen if you get up to like the gap, but you're still not getting clothes from people who are the best at it, or even want to be doing it.

[Ashenai]

what does the US do well

Lots of stuff! Military equipment, robotics, lots of IT stuff, research, and also entertainment.

[Ashenai]

I don't mean I buy $800 Armani suits lol, just that I buy clothes from clothes manufacturers, like everyone else.

i figured this was just a thing like how if you came from a country that made good food or had good restaurants or something you would just assume it was the same in NA

like, in NA,, our clothes are made in the shittiest cheapest way possible, from the shittiest cheapest material possible, plastic.

buying clothes from people that actually makes clothes is like a dream. granted you can at least get linen if you get up to like the gap, but you're still not getting clothes from people who are the best at it, or even want to be doing it.

NA is a big country, I don't think you can really generalize like that. Also I have some 50% polyester stuff I like, it's a hardy and non-demanding material that has its place!

[s. goblin]

NA is a big country, I don't think you can really generalize like that

oh ashenai. you're so optimistic

[Rylinks]

I don't mean I buy $800 Armani suits lol, just that I buy clothes from clothes manufacturers, like everyone else.

i figured this was just a thing like how if you came from a country that made good food or had good restaurants or something you would just assume it was the same in NA

like, in NA,, our clothes are made in the shittiest cheapest way possible, from the shittiest cheapest material possible, plastic.

buying clothes from people that actually makes clothes is like a dream. granted you can at least get linen if you get up to like the gap, but you're still not getting clothes from people who are the best at it, or even want to be doing it.

oh yeah this post made me realize that ashenai is misstating comparative advantage: it's not necessary that the people making the clothes are the best at it. They could be quite bad at it, but everyone else has more importantrenumerative things to do

[s. goblin]

oh yeah this post made me realize that ashenai is misstating comparative advantage: it's not necessary that the people making the clothes are the best at it. They could be quite bad at it, but everyone else has more importantrenumerative things to do

is that even true

[s. goblin]

just open your own factories, huh

[Ashenai]

I don't mean I buy $800 Armani suits lol, just that I buy clothes from clothes manufacturers, like everyone else.

i figured this was just a thing like how if you came from a country that made good food or had good restaurants or something you would just assume it was the same in NA

like, in NA,, our clothes are made in the shittiest cheapest way possible, from the shittiest cheapest material possible, plastic.

buying clothes from people that actually makes clothes is like a dream. granted you can at least get linen if you get up to like the gap, but you're still not getting clothes from people who are the best at it, or even want to be doing it.

oh yeah this post made me realize that ashenai is misstating comparative advantage: it's not necessary that the people making the clothes are the best at it. They could be quite bad at it, but everyone else has more importantrenumerative things to do

I was simplifying, but yes. The point is that specialization works well. It's not worth it to try and do a lot of different things well.

[Rylinks]

what does the US do well

Lots of stuff! Military equipment, robotics, lots of IT stuff, research, and also entertainment.

i would add financial services to this list, but regardless all of these jobs require a college degree or are entertainment and like any good liberal i think it's important to protect less skilled workers from the sharp end of economic competition

[Ashenai]

Oh that reminds me, prisons

[pterrus]

what does the US do well

Pizza delivery and software.

e: I forgot music and movies

[Khaos]

Oh that reminds me, prisons

quality over quantity ashe

[Doug]

what does the US do well

Corn!

[Skeletor]

maize well

[s. goblin]

maize well

that's p good

[Dantes]

Oh that reminds me, prisons

Not really.

Stalin's musings aside, quantity is not quality.

[Rylinks]

essay on the relative merits of compassion and changing attitudes vs. legal and constitutional structures for securing rights, https://writing1pell.files.wordpress.co ... le0001.pdf

Cruelty to strangers and foreigners has prompted many people to seek ways to prevent such actions from recurring. Some solutions envision a framework of cosmopolitan largess that relies on the population to spontaneously and generously "imagine" other persons, and to do so on a day-by-day basis. Alternative solutions, in contrast, attempt to solve the problem of human "otherness" through constitutional design

[Doug]

I'm not sure we can solve the problem of police brutality until something happens that wakes up the entire country, such as for example Whoopi Goldberg getting savagely beaten up by police