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What I don't get is...they can just hire more people to do the work and expand the company? When you consider this, you realize that they're just asking people to work 40% more without an increase in pay (hence hiring more people is not an option)...then they call it "productivity gains".

Democratic market socialism is a perfectly moderate ideology (too moderate, because often it lets the market win over and the democracy decay). You can also consider weekends, paid leave, women's vote, public education, healthcare, public media and social security as socialist policies. It is one of the main political currents founding the EU and in South America. Only in the US is it used to describe radicals or as an insult.

I'm even reluctant to point this out to magats now, because they never get the point and may even get it in their head that these are the things to destroy wherever they exist, just because they're socialist in origin.

Well, this is where specific targetted protectionist policies can work, provided they are used just to buy time to catch up, deploy industrial policy, subsidies, to differentiate and for RnD and not just to bury your head in the sand and keep making expensive shit products.

No time or money to have kids and when you manage to have them, you don't know them...then insist on why social policies need to be curtailed to increase productivity even more.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-azerbaijan-putin-aliyev-tensions-relations-627104d770071082be26c189161b1ac9

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/10/the-south-caucasus-is-slipping-from-russias-grasp

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5390199-russia-losing-influence-armenia-azerbaijan/

Besides, Azerbaijan can afford to defy russia, because their primary partner is Turkey.

I changed it right after posting, but lemmy takes time to update, thanks anyway.

If .ml were a lefty echo chamber people wouldn't hate hexbear, but they do.

The EU used to do some pushing by setting regulation standards and consumer protection, but now the tech companies ran to tramp asking him to save them from any regulation anywhere in the world.

Yeah, dollar reserves have lost about 11% this year. https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/TVC-DXY/?timeframe=60M

In 64, yes. In the last election, no. Biden expressly told Bolsonaro's toadies to go fuck themselves with their coup. Hopefully, Brazil has had time to set up protections against the US gov meddling from now until their next election.

PS: you can access the article if you go through this reddit page https://www.reddit.com/r/foreignpolicy/comments/14faga9/the_discreet_us_campaign_to_defend_brazils/

How come Qatar has such a large supply/m²? Ok, small country sitting on a huge gas field about the same size as Qatar https://maritimeducation.com/2349-2/ and fully developed.

Yeah, Brazil has a chance to demonstrate to the world that proper democracies don't let traitors get away with an attempted coup. Interestingly, the last fascist coup in Brazil was in 1964 and was supported by the US, so they can't act like the coup was nothing, trump is poking a wasp nest... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d'etat