@QuellodellaP2 @TrueSlazac (Kinda) Meiji Japan, Korea, Taiwan, probably some others
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Nate 🌲
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@PushkinLiberal
Conservative Liberal | Narod Bezmolvstvuet
Katılım Ocak 2023
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95% of revolutions happen weeks before the quasi feudal state transitions into an progressive industrial power
Rina Lu🇷🇺@rinalu_
The Russian Empire was weeks away from universal education in 1917. Then the revolution happened, and set it back by a decade. You were never told this. Here's what the numbers actually show. 🧵👇 By 1914, literacy was rising quickly. In cities it reached 60–70%, and among army recruits it exceeded 70–80%. Recruits were not an elite group, they came largely from the peasantry. If the army was receiving literate young men, it meant that education had already penetrated rural Russia.
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@rakishanis @nagamyzuna I don’t know. This was just a guess at what might be said in favor of land reform raising productivity.
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@PushkinLiberal @nagamyzuna To what degree are the descendants of the landlord families still rich and successful in these countries?
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Land reform is touted as a key factor in Korean and Taiwanese econ development, and while that's definitely true to an extent (effect of land reform on agricultural productivity is disputable), it could be said that it was much more critical as a facilitator of regime stability.
Lib Chung-hee@lib_chunghee
Land reform in early South Korea helped cement the Rhee Syngman administration's power base of rural anti-communist farmers. They would use the pro-reform conservative opposition's anti-land reform/pro-landlord policies as a potent weapon against them during the 1956 election.
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@rakishanis @nagamyzuna If i had to come up with a theory for why it could raise productivity, it would relate to how the land owners are typically not successful businesspeople but rather individuals who inherited it/have social status. Doesn’t necessarily translate to competence.
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@nagamyzuna @PushkinLiberal Why would this be surprising given the effects of economies of scale? Land reform is basically the agricultural equivalent of antitrust.
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@nagamyzuna Makes sense, I meant “more viable” to mean more financially viable from the standpoint of the individual, not the society at large.
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@PushkinLiberal That could be true, but land reform actually has a middling or even negative impact on agricultural productivity.
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@nagamyzuna Admittedly I am unsure how substantiated this is, however England, which did essentially reverse land reform w/ the process of enclosure, saw major migration from rural areas into cities as a product of reducing the amount of land available to the common peasantry.
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@nagamyzuna That’s true, but you can also possibly make an argument that land reform actually hurts industrialization.
Making agriculture more viable reduces the flow of workers into industrial sectors and urban areas.
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@TrackRepHakeem @mattyglesias #1 that citation does not support your claim
#2 The median family has $8K in cash and a $193K net worth
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A Sinagpore-style approach to the welfare state, if scaled up to the size of the United States, would be the largest socialist undertaking in human history.
slowboring.com/p/the-case-for…
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@TrackRepHakeem @mattyglesias 1) That statistic is made up
2) ideally we’d take what we currently contribute to SS and make that your mandatory savings
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@mattyglesias This must hit hard for retared people.
70% of Americans can’t cover a $500 emergency, can’t afford homes, can’t afford food, can’t afford the basic necessities of life to live & survive. But sure they’ll definitely have extra money to put away into the National Savings Program
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@Vin_Diagram @FreeWillHayes @CortesSteve The federal budget writ large is more complicated, but the argument that immigration reduces wages is silly and unsubstantiated.
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@Vin_Diagram @FreeWillHayes @CortesSteve The argument about stagnant wages is an economic myth. Even adjusted for inflation, real compensation has risen steadily over time.
By all of our available data, immigration has either a modestly positive or heavily positive effect on wage growth.
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Republicans Risk Losing Their Strongest Issue: Immigration
"A retreat on immigration...a massive political surrender that would dispirit the base and abandon the most popular & effective element of the current conservative agenda."
My latest, w/ POLLING
dailysignal.com/2026/04/30/rep…
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@FreeWillHayes @CortesSteve This issue with this argument is that it doesn’t do either of these things.
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@CortesSteve Affordability is their strongest issue and...they seem to have forgotten about it. Immigration cuts wages and takes jobs: impacts affordability.
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Nate 🌲 retweetledi
Criminal policy guy: unions are good, police unions just happen to be bad
Transit policy guy: unions are good, the teamsters just happen to be bad
School policy guy: unions are good, teachers unions just happen to be bad
Maybe these guys should meet!
dandelion georgism 🔰🏗@DolphinMossad
I’ve noticed a habit among my fellow conscientious liberals to take a default position of “unions in general are good, it just so happens that the unions involved in the policy areas I’m well informed about are bad” and never reflect on why that might be the case.
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@olutrain @landvaluetax @moshik_temkin “broad based prosperity” is not a metric
it probably isn’t optimal to have more inequality, but to reduce inequality you have to take certain policy actions which may have negative consequences.
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@PushkinLiberal @landvaluetax @moshik_temkin Broad based prosperity (less weather inequality and poverty) is a main driver of American economic engine. Why would greater wealth inequality and poverty be optimal or lead to better outcomes? Are you dumb? The Gilded Age is a not a period of history we should want to emulate.
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Ben Sasse is a member of a political party that has done everything it can for decades now to create a political economy in which fewer and fewer Americans can afford to raise a family in comfort, security, and dignity. Talking about candy crush or whatever is pure silliness.
60 Minutes@60Minutes
“We've stopped making babies. We've decided that being distracted by a dopamine hit around Candy Crush might be a good way to spend your time. Not if you're a full human," former Sen. Ben Sasse says in an extended interview. cbsn.ws/4cA1Jrp
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@olutrain @landvaluetax @moshik_temkin Such arrogance does not look very well on you.
I would you to understand that this does not answer my question.
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@PushkinLiberal @landvaluetax @moshik_temkin Do you think life was broadly prosperous prior to the New Deal and Great Society programs? Go play in traffic and not in my face if you’re going to be utterly stupid.
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@olutrain @landvaluetax @moshik_temkin And, of course, the important question to ask when something “works” is at what cost, and what would we have gotten had there been no intervention
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@olutrain @landvaluetax @moshik_temkin This hasn’t really answered my question. By what metrics are we saying that they work?
You have cited inequality reduction and poverty reduction. To what degree to these meaningfully produce better outcomes?
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@olutrain @landvaluetax @moshik_temkin How exactly would we know that such programs are working, assuming that they are?
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@PushkinLiberal @landvaluetax @moshik_temkin You can play dumb all you want. We all know that entitlement reform means major cuts and reduction of services to big programs like Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security. Go play in traffic instead of my face, please. Thx.
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@olutrain @landvaluetax @moshik_temkin Depends on the specific services, why they are on them, and how exactly we are defining efficiency.
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@PushkinLiberal @landvaluetax @moshik_temkin Kicking ppl off from vital services they need and depend on with overbearing red tape makes communities and the country poorer, makes government more inefficient and kills vulnerable people and puts more marginalized ppl at higher risk. Only a net benefit if one is a sociopath.
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@landvaluetax @moshik_temkin Entitlement reform is code for cutting down the safety nets and rug pulling the most vulnerable by burying them in bureaucratic red tape.
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