The age you picked here makes your argument obviously right. But what age _should_ people get a phone and be able to use it unsupervised? I don’t think it’s reasonable that it be 21 or 18, even 16 feels quite puritanical.
I am someone who would probably not own a smart phone if it wasn't such a pain to not have one.
I can see with the kids in my extended family how even by 12, not having a smart phone is going to damage your social life. It was awkward enough for me at that age with rotary phones. I couldn't do that to my kid if I had one.
We have put ourselves in a really bad spot. Even if a parent wants to do what is best for the kid, I have no idea what that is. To pretend there is some simple and obvious answer here is completely divorced from reality.
I hated shop class. It was an enormous waste of time I could have invested in learning more about computers, or to reduce hours in school. It should be completely abolished and people with an intense desire for carpentry and similar activities can learn about it after school without tormenting all children with this nonsense.
Europe is dying. It is an old socialist relic, with a completely outdated model of reality. The successes of the extreme left and right shows that the political nobility are done.
Sadly europe never realized that low taxes, capitalism and liberty is what drives wealth.
I wonder if, in a generation, when the best brains moved to the US, asia and argentina, the continent will finally awake from its socialist slumber?
Hong Kong managed to go from a peasant village to a global financial center in a generation or two. In theory, it should be possible for europe to do the same. But in order for that to happen, there needs to be insight into the sickness, and awareness of the cure.
I'm happy I left. After I left high tax western europe I basically doubled my salary after tax! =)
Spain is flooded with Argentinians fleeing. Spain, which isn't even that good. Europe is still a much better place to live to the common people than anywhere else in the world.
If you look for one, you can always find a worse place to live on the planet than your own, if you wanna make yourself feel better about where you live, however that's no excuse to be complacent and ignore the real issues your own place is facing. That's called coping.
I want my country every year to be just a little better than it was the year before. If that's not happening and I need to resort to comparisons to failed developing countries to see it in a good light, then something is going wrong with it.
Also HK and Singapore are intermediary port cities that made those general shifts by adopting policies inspired by Europe, in the former case whilst still being the territory of a European power...
> Sadly europe never realized that low taxes, capitalism and liberty is what drives wealth.
Honestly we have moved Europe so far past the post-political that I find it difficult to comprehend peoples politics nowadays. I wonder what people think "socialism" or "left" politics is now that everything has been so thoroughly depoliticized, I genuinely don't know. Is the EU "left"? I guess so? Is the IMF?
You can just look at the numbers. Percentage of GDP that is driven by government spending:
China: 33%
USA: 34%
Germany: 50%
Economically, modern Europe is more communist and exerts more centralized control than China. Might explain why the current class of European elites have presided over the greatest destruction of an industrial base since the Soviet Union.
By the Overton window of America, I think much of Western Europe is somewhere between "extreme left wing" and blank stares of non-comprehension at the still-present literal Soviet memorials that were never removed when the literal USSR fell.
By the Overton window of Europe, I think the Democrats are "dangerously right wing, look at them being pro-gun". Certainly they are to the right of my personal Overton window, though perhaps I am projecting my own views on my fellow Europeans.
Republicans of faint heart should avoid finding out how Trump gets labelled on newspaper front pages around here.
Nope. They are adults. If you have a problem, talk to the guy, if that doesn't work, block or leave.
I'm so sick and tired of the woke victimism ideology, but fortunately it is crashing and burning and we'll be right back to meritocracy and focus on technology. No code of conduct is the best code of conduct! =)
"A few hours ago I posted a tweet, as I have so many other times, supporting a supposed private enterprise with which I obviously have no connection whatsoever," Milei wrote. "I was not aware of the details of the project and after having become aware of it I decided not to continue spreading the word (that is why I deleted the tweet)." quote from Milei.
The big problem is that people might (or might not) buy crypto based on tweets. No shadow falls over Milei here, one of the true geniuses of our life time! He has done so much for Argentina, freeing it from socialism, and I won't stop until the last remnants and traces of socialism has been eradicated from the argentine psyche.
Then argentina will rise as a great financial power, built on solid capitalist and libertarian values.
I think there will be a lot of brain drain from the socialist EU to Argentina in a few years time. The question is if Argentina would want to receive the millions of refugees from the EU?
Amen! Same situation, same preferences, same values, same result. Only difference is I have about 70 phone nrs on my dumbphone, I don't own a smart phone, and my vices are this site, usenet and mastodon.
