NoneOfUrBusiness

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

I mean isn't that what nonsense is?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't the market just expand to absorb the extra demand?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

According to betteridge's law: No.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

Again, that is already present in plenty of (unsure if most) developing countries, and the ones where it isn't aren't common sources of brain drain. There's a reason the West tends to import Indians and Iranians rather than, say, Congolese; the majority of educated people from any country will stay there, either because they don't want to leave or because they can't find an opportunity to do so. This is simply not the bottleneck holding back the Global South; education is one of the few things a developing country can do more of with minimal effort.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 3 days ago

Not a justification for that either. "Seizing" ships is another word for piracy.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

And they will still end up cleaning your toilet and flipping my burger and deliver my food

I'm not talking about those, but the ones coding your web portals and prescribing your medicine. Tight immigration policy can effectively deter these people, which would be a detriment to European economies because of declining birthrates. See: Japan and South Korea. In 2025 Germany needs Syrian doctors more than Syrian doctors need Germany, that's my point here.

It’s not even about money, I will just never want to do it and there’s not enough people in any of these jobs and many more even though we’re in an economic downturn period.

I totally agree on the moral front, but it is about the money. The reason there aren't enough people in these jobs is that they don't pay a living wage, not that they're inherently icky.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I strongly believe that to improve a country you need educated citizens

True, but you also need cooperative authorities willing to give their educated citizens the leeway to prosper. That's the real bottleneck here; plenty of developing countries have accessible higher education. If you want the EU to help developing countries develop, you should start from neocolonialism. Many of the regimes holding back developing countries are basically running on foreign dollars and euros.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As if people can be motivated to come to Europe on a whim and only haven't come because we only accepted from a dangerous entrance by sketchy boat.

I mean, yes exactly. Why would you think otherwise?

Even of it works, it's an expression of values that will corrupt the EU forever.

Uh... I'm sorry to tell you but that ship has already sailed. The EU already treats workers as objects.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Not exactly. Immigrants without valuable skills will go illegally; those with valuable skills will just go somewhere else or not bother and that's not good for the labor-hungry European economy.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

I mean, yes, but this "victory" came at the cost of two hundred thousand dead, God knows how many wounded, twenty years they could've used to develop their country and even tighter Taliban control than before the US invasion. Afghans managed to kick the US out, but they did not succeed at defending anything. If I was Venezuelan my lesson from this would be "absolutely don't get into war with the US," because such a war would leave their country in ruin just like Afghanistan.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 5 days ago

If they do that will you protect them from the wrath of the US war machine? Exactly.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or the middle option: She's incompetent but this is what the people guiding her want.

 

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

 

Literal slavers don't like workers having rights? Who woulda fucking thunk.

 

In a video statement, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu called the growing MAGA conspiracy a ‘monstrous big lie.’

 

Top: TFW when Nazi Germany wasn't Nazi.

Bottom: This mod just removed a rhetorical question because "nobody said that"???

Thread in case y'all wanna see the context. Everything below the first paragraph was added after my response.

 

One thing Trump tried to do after getting inaugurated was considering Mexican cartels terrorist organizations, and for that he was attacked by Sheinbaum for violating Mexico's sovereignty. But, at least as far as I've read on the topic (whcih is not a lot to be fair), nobody actually explains why that's the case. I mean at a glance you'd think the Mexican government would benefit from such an action, or at least I did. It's pretty obvious to me I'm missing a piece of the puzzle, so does anyone here have it?

Edit: Thanks for the answers. Now it makes sense.

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