Doing that in the first world makes about as much sense as a tax on bowel movements because people in India don't use toilets and we need to pay for the increase in communicable diseases.
>Is this "matter of fact" mindset an unique trait of European cultures? No judgement is passing here, I am only curious about the thinking and mindset. I would venture to guess that nations of other cultures in modern days probably would feel very uncomfortable to openly display artifacts sourced in similar ways.
But these European museums for the past hundred years have been like this, "hey folks, look here, in the past we invaded other countries, burnt down their houses, plundered their stuff. It's wrong, OK! Now with that out of the way, here are our loot, everybody come in to take a look. Enjoy!" It's facinating.
In terms of total power? Maybe.. Hitler was not the ultimate Dictator like he seem to many today, but in terms of genocide?
Not really. Even if the famine in the Ukraine, you are probably referring to, was a planned event and not just missmanagement and ignorance, it still would be no organized genocide to wipe out a whole race.
Why do you abbreviate USSR that way? The first I assumed was a typo, the second makes it look intentional.
I do not see how that tracks from either the English translation, the original Russian name for the country: "Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик", or the transliteration: "Soyúz Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik".
If the last 50 years have taught us anything it's that the middle class will be pushed lower, the lower class will be pushed lower still and the upper class will take all the winnings.
The economy has been a zero sum game for the majority for a very long time, so zero sum game strategies is what they employ.
Sounds like regular college students are too expensive for the tech companies because they have a hard floor below which they will not work. Having a cursory look that is due to student loans being easier to service if you're unemployed than employed at a low -relative to the cost of living- wage.
So now they are looking for a pool of labor that will take even lower salaries.
Expect the vulture capitalist friends to pump up community college prices in the next decade.
In Iowa 2008 was the biggest drop in nominal personal income since 1955. The period 2009-2017 had the slowest nominal personal income growth since the end of the great depression in 1931. 2017 was one of 3 years to record negative income growth in the last 50 years (2008, 1993).
This all speaks of a labor market working far beneath capacity, one that hasn't yet made up the loss of income from the last recession. One no where close to full employment which leads to constant and substantial overall income gains.
Interestingly, of the neighboring states, only SD exhibits the same shape of curve (although NE is close, with a decreasing of the slope at the end, like KS, which is nearby).
It certainly doesn't seem like full employment, but it also doesn't seem like it can be extrapolated to the other 99% of the population in other states (not that I'm saying that's what you were implying).
Well, I perhaps shouldn't have said outerspace. I also meant locally, such as on a sailboat or in an area with inconsistent internet. Or maybe only connect to the internet once a day. Would be cool to have a good setup for that.
A captain for proper sanitation and waste disposal in China and Africa would greatly reduce this problem.