There's a section in Plato's Republic that this photograph captures. It's in Book Eight where Socrates is discussing how an oligarchy transitions into a democracy. One way is when the workers are in physical proximity to their bosses and realize they can be overthrown.
I cannot count the number of articles over the past 20 years (including from Nobel prize winners) that I read about how China cannot innovate b/c it is not a free market economy.
But now I have to read the articles from the same people telling me how a state-directed economy innovates much more efficiently than a market economy & how we have to fight against that.
Something that has never happened in the history of football is about to happen in the Premier league this season
And it's not about Arsenal bottling the league
It's about Wolverhampton wanderers. The season started with Wolves as the bottom team due to alphabetical order
After their first game, they were still bottom as they lost to Manchester City 4:0. And since then, they have never left that position
The chances of a team never changing a position they were placed in alphabetically at the beginning of the season stands at 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000003649%.
Something close to impossible is just a bout to happen.
“Io sto con gli eretici” (ma da 40 anni, a sinistra, dominano gli economisti conformisti)
È davvero appassionante il ricordo di John Mynard Keynes scritto per Il Corriere da Giorgio La Malfa nell’ottantesimo della morte del grande intellettuale, diplomatico, economista britannico.
“Keynes aveva spiegato che gli economisti sono divisi in due grandi scuole di pensiero separate da un abisso molto profondo. Da un lato — aveva detto — alcuni pensano che nel lungo periodo il sistema economico si autoregoli «anche se con scricchiolii, gemiti e sussulti» e cioè che sia in grado sempre di produrre la piena occupazione. Dall'altra vi sono gli eretici che non credono in questa tendenza spontanea e ritengono necessari interventi specifici per realizzare questo obiettivo. Questo secondo gruppo aveva ragione: “Io sto con gli eretici” — aveva aggiunto — ma finora essi non sono riusciti a portare un attacco efficace contro la «cittadella dell'ortodossia», cioè a fornire una spiegazione teorica dei limiti del laissez-faire. «Io credo — aveva concluso - di essere sulla buona strada». Questa è la Teoria generale”.
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From 1947 to 1979, wages and productivity rose in tandem, driving broad-based prosperity. After 1980, productivity kept climbing while wages and compensation stalled. This disconnect defines the Great Regression, a period in which workers produce more but receive far less in return.
This is an incredible story by Reuters: they reveal that China now has a working EUV lithography machine prototype, which makes China the only country in the world to have succeeded at replicating the ASML technology, years earlier than anticipated.
The machine apparently "fills nearly an entire factory floor". It's operational and successfully generates extreme ultraviolet light (what "EUV" stands for), but has not yet produced working chips.
The objective for the latter is 2028, which is a crazy fast timeline: ASML took 18 years to go from prototype to machines that could produce commercially-available chips, China aims to do it in 3.
The security measures around the project look insane. The employees work under fake identities so they don't know each other's real names. They work inside secure facilities where "no one outside the compound could know what they were building - or that they were there at all". They're divided in "teams who are kept isolated from each other to protect the confidentiality of the project," where "they don't know what the other teams work on."
For foreign employees, China exceptionally gave them Chinese passports and allowed them to maintain dual citizenship, which is normally forbidden under Chinese law.
This seems to be because some of the employees are former ASML workers such as Lin Nan, ASML's former head of light source technology (https://t.co/NEGEKd4JjS), who would be less vulnerable to Western sanctions under Chinese citizenship.
The salaries offered are apparently "uncapped" with "signing bonuses that started at 3 million to 5 million yuan" and "home-purchase subsidies".
This all means that we're looking, within a few years, at yet another self-inflicted wound by the West: the development, because of sanctions, of a serious competitor for Europe's most successful technology company (one of our very rare ones!).
And the worst part, for Europe, is that these sanctions weren't even initiated by us nor serve our interests: we just followed Washington's lead as usual, suffering the costs while getting no obvious benefit out of it. Quite the contrary in fact as all its doing is replacing a massive customer with a massive future competitor.
We, again, let ourselves be the chessboard on which others play. We just absorb the damage from both sides and have no voice in the game.
Link to the story: https://t.co/hYKwYcpiRk
Sembra una cazzata, ma il fatto che quando stappo una bottiglia di coca cola non rimane attaccato il tappo al collo della bottiglia mi fa venire un orgasmo. L'UE deve morire. Buon Anno Nuovo di libertà e di autodeterminazione dei popoli. Viva il maschio etero e bianco e la figa!
▪️Salari f€rmi inchiodati da trent'anni
▪️Mutui raddoppiati
▪️Futuri costi di manutenzione degli immobili insostenibili causa direttive Ue
➡️Elementi irrilevanti per Banca d'Italia: le compravendite calano perché il cambiamento climatico e la canicola 😐
E' quello che si chiede il mondo produttivo da qualche anno, oramai. Felice di constatare come anche il presidente di Federacciai e Duferco, Antonio Gozzi, abbia colto il punto. Bisogna continuare a lottare per mitigare almeno l'eludibile processo di de-industrializzazione.
L’impennata degli investimenti in capacità manifatturiera negli Usa - naturale conseguenza dell’IRA e del Chip Act - dimostra quanto possa essere efficace una politica industriale perseguita con criterio. Bruxelles lo capirà?