Since we are on this topic I would incentivise everyone to take a look at resonate.

They are, AFAIK, the only music streaming service where artists, workers and listeners are owners (aka it's a cooperative)

They are sold in Europe, no need to wait!

Was it a repeated occurrence?

In the end, what most people seem to care about is their own material conditions

“While sales are not our main concern at the moment, we have seen a very significant drop,” said the official.

I always find it funny when representatives of a big corporation say this.

The profit is all that matters to companies, even their reputation with the wider public only matters because it affects their ability to achieve a higher profit margin.

It feels disingenuous and manipulative to hear this.

Argentina is becoming an increasingly interesting case study on how economic policy affects everyday life of a population.

Ah then your comment makes sense. In Europe the closest we have are the Linux laptops from Tuxedo, which I've heard are pretty repairable, but not really upgradeable.

Archery is very chill, while still incentivizing you to walk a bit

Are they forcing you to pay for stuff beyond reasonable needs you may have during your stay? (Food, bottled water, some hygiene products)

Disclaimer I'm not from the states.

Believing the Democratic Party will in anyway abolish or even threaten capitalism is laughable. Even the most "left" (I don't like the left/right axis) politicians in America are at most social-democrats and are more likely to actually enact social liberal policies. The democrats will never pose an actual threat to capitalism.

The republicans are much more enamored with the status quo, but the democrats won't resolve the structural contradictions the USA (and the west) faces.

I'm not sure why you're being down voted.

It's a Chinese subsidiary of a Canadian company, I'm not sure if it's fair to say it's a Chinese invention/product

Automation is great , everything should be automated as much as possible.

IF everyone benefits from it in the form of higher wages/less working hours due to the higher productivity.

Socialism is defined by "the ownership of the means of production by the working class, in a transition to communism".

There's some debate about whether cooperatives satisfy this criteria.

What you seem to be describing is a social-democracy, where there's still the common capitalist dynamics and class interest contradictions, but with the conflict reduced somewhat by appeasing the majority with a social safety net.

Maybe, but it's more likely they are resentful for not doing the same and worried about who will pay for their retirement.

Under the rules of the EU most benefits an European country provides to their citizens must be provided to residents of other European nationalities.

With that in mind I guess the purpose is to keep the price of access to culture lower for locals and still follow the rules from the EU

Most countries have that, no? Mount Rushmore comes to mind

From what I read, his party won the most recent midterm race with a pretty good result (40%), while they seem to have been punished just a couple months ago in the local elections

Their mercenaries were famous throughout Europe and the dependency of the great European powers on those mercenaries led to Switzerland being left mostly in peace.

That's what I've read, but I'd love to be corrected.

Regarding your last sentence, I assume you are thinking exclusively of able bodied people, correct? Otherwise it seems like you're defending letting handicapped people "out" (aka die without resources)

And how would you achieve a meritocracy when the family you are born into and luck have such a high impact on your economic outcomes?

Btw would you agree with the old saying "from each according to it's abilities, to which according to its needs"? Or would you prefer "from each according to it's abilities, to which according to its labour"?

I guess what @[email protected] is trying to point at is that worker's don't truly control the government and so when the current government seizes the means of production it's closer to a change of hands between different groups of capitalists than anything envisioned by communists.

I'd also like to say that although the government has "seized" 10% of Intel shares for example it has no control over Intel's decisions. Those shares only provide dividends.