Japan is much better in this regard. They have a sense of responsibility in business decisions.

They also tend to work at the same company their whole lives, tend to save instead of invest, etc. The whole culture is one of stability whereas western culture is one of risk.

Maybe, maybe not. Nobody knows his ledger, and he's bankrupted so many companies that American business will not work with or loan to him and he has to borrow from the slum lords of the third world. I bet he got a lot of daddy's money, and I bet he has squandered more. People who inherit the money are never as good with it as the people who actually built the fortune in the first place.

He is hiding his tax information to protect his image as a businessman.

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Asian work culture is quite shitty towards employees as a whole however

The Republican party has always been about business, not free market libertarianism. There is another party for that, and it has never been all that successful.

Tariffs are an economic tool, to the extent that they disrupt economic activity, they're bad. To the extent that they protect domestic markets from unfair trade practices, they can be good. French is an absolutist, the free market is always good, therefore tariffs must be bad, irrespective of the fact that they've only been implemented to correct for government sponsored intervention in China and elsewhere.

French thinks Hawley's internet proposal is a government power grab, but the current situation, where a handful of providers dictate content, is hardly better. We've already seen what happens when alternative platforms attempt to disrupt the status quo (e.g. Gab). The dominant oligopolies shut them down. When a market is naturally predisposed towards either monopoly or oligopoly, there is no free market.

It's one thing to talk about dispensing with convenient political fictions, but if we're to pretend that the value of a blue collar hasn't changed, we're embracing one fiction instead of another. This hunky dory, "everything is fine!" belies the reality of the American lower and middle class.

That Japan is dying. Part time work is rising, the company jobs are harder to find. Japan's economy has struggled to emerge from the lost decade(s) that followed the bubble burst in the late 80s.

imagine accusing someone of being this incompetent, then voting for someone who loses to said “incompetent” person in a landslide. and then blaming said “incompetent” person on masterminding the ‘hacking of the election’ as the reason for the election result

Sounds like a great step in the right direction.

This is all orthodox Marxist prediction.

I suppose so. Republicans deploy the rhetoric of free markets, but in practice they're closer to corporatists.

You're creating a distinction where there isn't one. Any tariff is a tax on economic activity. You can argue it's a good or bad tariff based on whatever goals you think you are going to accomplish, but either way it's disrupting economic activity.

French isn't saying the free market is always good, just that it's better than the alternative. He doesn't have as much faith in technocrats in Washington as others do.



I don't care that much about social media regulation, but Hawley's regulation was full of weird paternalistic nonsense aimed at making these applications less appealing, and therefore, less addictive. I don't want the state telling Twitter how to make their application less convenient.

The last line is a strawman.