The total value of US-held European business assets has surged from $1.05 trillion in 2011 to $3.79 trillion in 2024, with nearly 32 percent of European assets currently held by American investors.

And yet that’s less than Apple’s market capitalization. That’s even more worrysome than the takeovers.

What’s missing is the same number for Europe. How many American assets are held by European investors?

Stop using hate to focus.

Have you forgotten project 2025?

Yes, but not on Independence Day.

Der kann ja schon aktiv sein und dies ist eine nötige Allianz gegen Lidl.

Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.

The USA is not comparable because they have illegal immigrants who distort the unemployment rate.

There has to be labor shortage for wages to rise. If employers can, they hire illegal imigrants instead of rising wages.

This means there can be bad employment conditions even with a low unemployment rate. Greece shouldn’t have that problem so living conditions will improve.

Has Pakistan shot down the French jets? India hasn’t confirmed those losses. If true then France doesn’t have much power to project.

On 7 May, Indian and Pakistani fighter jets battled for over an hour. Pakistan claimed that three Dassault Rafales, one MiG-29, one Su-30MKI fighter jet, and one Israeli-manufactured IAI Heron UAV belonging to the Indian Air Force were shot down. If true, would first time that a French-origin Dassault Rafale has been lost in combat, reportedly having been shot down by the Chinese-origin Chengdu J-10. This, along with the performance of Chinese-origin PL-15E missiles in the combat, reportedly gained global attention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_India–Pakistan_conflict

Tankies perceive the old Tibet like the West perceives Iran, as an abusive Theocracy. That changes the evaluation.

Das ist Dilemma der Elite ist, dass diese wenigen die Macht über die Automatisierung und weitere Gestaltung bekommen würden und diesbezüglich keine Rolle mehr spielen.

Wenn Elite nicht hauptsächlich Ausbeutung ist, sollte ein glückliches System für alle auch von der Elite gewollt sein.

Freiwillig passiert das dagegen nicht, denn sonst hätten wir das schon gemacht.

Sehr viele Startups beweist das Gegenteil.

Leider nicht. Startups ist eine Fortführung des bestehenden Anreizsystems. Linux oder Lemmy zeigen eine andere Motivation, aber auch deren Grenzen.

Den Schritt zur sinnlosen Arbeit erhalten man, wenn man diese im Stunden misst.

Den Satz verstehe ich nicht

Das Problem ist die fehlende Ausrichtung an gemeinsamen Zielen.

Ja, das gilt aber so gut wie immer.

Wir brauchen mehr Partnerschaft im Erfolg und Misserfolg.

Es gibt Genossenschaften. Der Freiraum ist da, er wird nicht genutzt.

Das macht die Diskussion über mehr oder weniger Arbeitsstunden überflüssig.

Es wird immer die geben, die nur ein Mindestmass an Zivilisation wollen, und dann die, die maximalen Fortschritt wollen.

Absolutely. But given those circumstances the prices are still reasonable.

It sounds bad but it is a consequence of female emancipation. If a couple has double the income then a scarce resource like housing ends up costing exactly what a couple can afford.

The situation is actually even better than described. Poor people rent flats. Only a fraction of the population buys homes. The poor people lower the average income but not the average price of a house.

How much has this to do with Michelle and Barak Obama studying at Harvard? Why is no other university involved?

For the influence to change the world, it will be millions or billions. You also have to exploit some nature to protect the rest.

This is a Stalin level of monstocity, or beyond.

Is it a price worth paying? Because even if it is something else, like a Communist approach, the efforts will be the same. E.g. if China ends up protecting nature globally, they have paid that price.

Von mir aus kann alles bleiben wie es ist. Ich finde nur, dass wenn wir als Gesellschaft Gewalt die Grundlage entziehen wollen, wir das nicht mit einem Verbot machen sollten.

You can try that.

Ironically you could also try protecting nature by becoming a leading Capitalist and owning all means of production yourself.

Es reicht doch, wenn uns die Ukraine ihre Kriegsschulden mit Rohstoffen zurückzahlt, oder den Wiederaufbau.

It’s linked but Communism can also be unsustainable. Climate change is known since 1970 or such.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea

There are only a few big billionaires. They could agree on protecting nature. I believe that they have chosen to continue for the northern shipping routes.

The couples that argue all the time, they hate smalltalk. Just tell him to bring out the trash.

Username checks out.