ICastFist

"Do you know how hard it is to keep the plebs just happy enough that they don't burn down my property?"

Is it up on the comedy central site already? Gonna watch it if so

Time to ignore all the copyright and patents for my own ~~nefarious purposes~~ AI training

Time for Brazil's PIX to be exported around the world. That's likely to be hard, as here it is a direct, bank agnostic account-to-account transfer without middlemen and without any tax, so it'd need cooperation between the involved countries.

Annoy them, call their bullshit, but don't harass or threaten them, those are likely to backfire spectacularly

Every linux comes with perl and bash, possession is a single script away

No one pays in shares because no one accepts this and it’s annoying to do?

Sounds like crypto

volatility with crypto is annoying, but it will happen with a currency that works in every country, even fiat is volatile

True, but countries have means to keep money more or less stable. Most countries also have laws that are supposed to ensure big money owners don't collude to play insider trading and pump'n dump every other week

First, fuck Visa and Mastercard. Second, fuck Collective Shout. Third, I feel for the itch forum mods.

"NUMBER NOT BIG ENOUGH! MAKE NUMBER BIGGER!!!" - some directors and chief executives.

I love how this reply of yours is just a bunch of bad faith arguments, especially the first part that neatly ignores the fact that the state owns everything in NK, not unlike how a company owns and runs its property. I fully expect you to say that nazi germany was left wing because "national SOCIALISM!!!!!!!!!!!"

Some of the actual reasons people hate crypto are:

• extreme volatility
• many coins' value can be easily manipulated by whales
• most stablecoins are probably one step away of crashing down like Terra Luna
• resource intensive - you can shout about proof of stake all you want, there are still gigawatts of energy being burned to "mint" bitcoin
• no protections because "code is law", even when the code is flawed
• forking risk nearly every year
• the coins that aren't as resource intensive, have fast transaction times and negligible fees, are unlikely to gain traction or receive widespread adoption
• you still have to go through the hoops of a heavily regulated exchange to get actual money from any crypto you have

Economy and politics are intrinsically tied to one another, no matter how much some economy masters try to say otherwise. Regulations, tariffs and taxes happen because of political pressure and they all have a very direct and measurable effect on the economy. Democracies may not directly control economies like dictatorships can, but they can and do heavily influence it to work one way or another, via tax or tax breaks, easier or harder credit, etc. Culture also plays an important role, even if the majority of economy academics downplay or ignore it, just like they downplay or ignore the importance of nature, but that's a different discussion.

it was founded as a Marxist state

Alright, can you tell me what are some of the marxist teachings that NK applies to how it runs the state and the economy? Because "being founded as" and "actually run as" are not the same. I mean, it's official name is "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". It's obviously not democratic and barely qualifies as a republic

confusing authoritarianism/liberalism with left/right ideologies

I'm not. Left wing ideology usually leans towards "the govt and economy should work for the good of the people". Communism, which is as "far left" as it typically goes, assumes that the people collectively own all the means of production and government becomes unnecessary. Which leads to the next point

It has public ownership

NK doesn't have "public" ownership, as in, the people cannot say that they collectively own anything, and literally have no say in how anything works, everything belongs to and is run according to the will of the state (or, more accurately, the current leader). Like I said before, not different from an absolutist monarchy. Unless you can argue that the majority of Kim's policies are all for the good of the NK people, he cannot be considered "left".

Funny how you mentioned Spain and Portugal but avoided Italy.

What, you gonna tell me that Mussolini was a far left politician?