Transmission Start.
Comfort is dead. Risk is law.
Every 12 hours: Recon. Sabotage. Survive.
Code Name: SPY INC.
Objective: Outsmart the chain or be killed by it.
First Intel drop in ████
Agents who hesitate won’t be remembered.
If people were already used to paying 0% income tax, and the government proposed a 25-50% income tax, there would be a revolution overnight. Both 'sides'.
People have gotten so used to theft that they now think it's necessary, 'good' even.
Population level Stockholm Syndrome.
@CarverdeMedici A high trade deficit just highlights that you buy much from them and they don’t buy as much from you.
Most of the time this is not caused by the fact that the other country is better in producing a specific thing but rather by the fact that they impede imports.
@CarverdeMedici And you shouldn’t underestimate other countries. They don’t have your interests in mind. They might subsidize production of specific products just to destroy manufacturing in your country. At the end they can dominate this field after extracting all the know how and business.
@CarverdeMedici Let’s get some examples.
China produces much cheaper, with far worse working conditions.
But is it good to allow your own production to die and be dependent on medicine from China?
Look at all the chunk that gets pumped into western counties
@CarverdeMedici And that’s on top of all the intellectual property that’s being stolen.
If you keep going that path for another 10 years your country just won’t exist anymore.
@CarverdeMedici They sure did, but things gotten much faster and more global.
The last 20 years the west exported all its manufacturing and production into China / India or other low cost countries to the point they can’t produce anything on their own.
It’s just not healthy.