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@Th_Angelopoulos Thank you! I do some voluntary work for the Scot’s gov and they tried to dismiss the Vienna model specifically using its decline ahead off ww2 to argue for it being a failure which I found quite funny given the context

Countries with dirigesme: China, Vietnam, Singapore, post-war Korea and Japan, and the Nordics. For housing the golden standard is Vienna imo. Other possible approaches include examples like Mondragon in the Basque country. There's not a single country that has nailed it but there are lots of examples across the globe that we can pick and choose and combine and come up with something that fits the UK.

At some point, the UK left needs to learn some basic economics. A wealth tax, the way is suggested in the UK, would bring about £20b. That's peanuts, and covers FUCK ALL. A wealth tax is the cherry on top after we have mass nationalisation (or major public control) of key industries. A wealth tax is the cherry on top after we have gone back to building 200k council homes. A wealth tax is the cherry on top when the private sector is unionised at 80% and collective bargaining is mandatory. A wealth tax is an individual tax. Rich people don't make money individually, they make money through their companies. If something needs upping is the corporate tax, or closing the loops for siphoning money out to tax heavens, or anything to that scope. Enough with these bloody nonsense. Open a fucking book at some point. You don't politics with vibes.

@Th_Angelopoulos Would you be able to share some successes/working examples? Always looking for strong examples to share with people

@Thunk20a By highlighting successful/working examples. Of course, they won't be perfect, but they'll be much better than what we have now.

@Th_Angelopoulos I agree, the issue I have ran into when trying to explain this has been that many people are trapped into this idea that public control is inefficient(it’s not) or that it’s reduces innovation (it doesn’t) so how do we make the case in a largely anti public control environment?

That's the problem though; we should not argue about redistribution, we should argue about public control over cash generating sectors or sectors working with natural monopolies/natural resources. Redistribution is the side effect. If we focus on redistribution, we are moralising, if we focus on public control we do materialist politics. Materialist politics are more likely to bring change than moralising.

@DanielPriestley @Th_Angelopoulos Also by fully funded does this mean the emergency services are public services run and owned by the state or are they private institutions funded by the state?

Ideally… 1. The state operates a sovereign wealth fund that manages natural resources and provides the state revenue. 2. Education, healthcare, legislation, policing etc are seen as investments into common benefit not welfare. This requires them to operate at a level and in a manner where that passes scrutiny. 3. Safety nets are designed for the bottom 10% and funded by the top 10%. A safty net is not a hammock - it is not designed to restore someone to the equivalent of the middle. 4. Emergency services are fully funded. Healthcare is provided at a basic level by the state and beyond that requires self funding. Australia and Singapore have great systems for this. 5. Babies receive a small investment into national businesses (eg: £1000 into the FTSE250) at birth and receive it at age 21 to get started or to clear Uni loans.

True. Capitalism has not killed 1.6b people. More likely around 100m. More here: x.com/i/status/20715…

@DanielPriestley @Th_Angelopoulos What do you define as basic level for healthcare? could this not create a slippery slope of what would not be covered by the state. For example, what about joint replacements, chronic illnesses, would this. It create a situation in which those who cannot afford access care

@DanielPriestley @Th_Angelopoulos Under your ideal model of capitalism, how do we support those who cannot work, due to age, illness, injury etc? Would you have a fully private system of health care, education, social care?

If colonialism and mercantilism are capitalism then why do they have separate names and definitions. If everything that came before is also the same as what came after then how can we discern any change? The fundamentals of capitalism… Rule of law. Freedom to own property. Freedom to start, own and operate a business. Freedom to work for whom you choose (or work for yourself). Freedom to buy, sell and contract voluntarily. Freedom to compete in open markets. How is any of that characteristic of mercantilism or colonialism? You are ideologically captured inside a worldview that doesn’t align to reality or produce anything of value.

@Th_Angelopoulos @PositivFuturist On top of this, this has led to further class division through creating two tier access to necessities such as housing, healthcare etc which has then been weaponised to oppose vulnerable groups and to promote the use of austerity and neoliberal policies

Is @PositivFuturist talking absolute shite? It seems so. For about 40 years the UK's ruling political tendency has opposed every structural policy that would have prevented the outcomes they now whine about. They still oppose them. They oppose higher wages. Collective bargaining now covers 40% of UK employees against 98% in France, 100% in Belgium, 100% in Italy, 98% in Austria. In the UK private sector, where the Domino's franchises operates, coverage drops to around 20%. Every one of those European countries has net migration; none of them see hospitality wages sit as low as they do here. The mechanism is sectoral bargaining, which sets legal floors below which employers cannot pay. The UK abolished its Wages Councils in 1993 and has blocked every serious restoration attempt since. This tendency led that opposition and still leads it. They oppose social housing. Over 2 million council homes were sold under Right to Buy and never rebuilt; the social sector's share of housing fell from 31% in 1981 to around 17% today. Every attempt to restart council housebuilding at scale was fought on the same grounds: it would compete with the private sector, distort the market, cost too much. In 2024 the Competition and Markets Authority concluded that "the limitations of speculative private development" are a primary cause of persistent under-supply. Britain built fewer than 250,000 homes last year against a 300,000 target for England alone. Councils approve nine in ten planning applications. The private developer model does not deliver the volumes needed. The CMA said so. They oppose rent controls. Every European country with rent stabilisation, from France to Germany to the Netherlands, was cited as a warning rather than a model. The UK rental market was allowed to become the most unregulated in Western Europe. Now that it has produced its predictable outcomes, the same tendency blames tenants for wanting somewhere to live. They oppose state intervention in the market. Public housebuilding, public childcare, public utilities, public capital investment in the NHS estate. Every serious use of state capacity to address the structural problem was fought as ideological overreach. When the post-Brexit labour shortages hit, the only tool their own governments would reach for was a widened Skilled Worker route, because they had spent two decades destroying the alternatives. And they still oppose all of it. Higher wages, more social housing, rent controls, collective bargaining, substantial state intervention in the market. Every single fix. They still oppose. They still frame it as an ideological overreach. And they still claim it unaffordable. What they call an argument is a distraction. Complain about the workers their policies imported to fill the gap their policies created. Blame the design's outcomes on the design's victims. Never once acknowledge that every structural remedy has been on the table for twenty years and they have blocked all of it. Of course this is not "growth". It is the wreckage of a forty-year long political project, defended by the same class interests that built it, and blamed on everyone except themselves.

@Th_Angelopoulos They seem to forget that public spending especially on key sectors (which should be publicly owned) generates wealth, for example mass access social housing keeps public money back into the councils and state making their use of money more transparent unlike private developers

You went from "France abolished its wealth tax" to "a real estate wealth tax is nothing like a wealth tax". More importantly, my wider point is different as I didn't advocate for a wider wealth tax as a stand-alone instrument. You would know that if you had read the original rather than dismissing it as AI-written. My argument is that the wealth-tax debate is stuck at the wrong level, that Stevenson misidentifies what the tax alone can do, that on his own frame you win the technical argument, and that the actual question is structural: public ownership, mass social housing, collective bargaining coverage, universal services, of which taxation is one instrument alongside others. You have engaged with none of that. Anyone interested can find the original tweet here: x.com/i/status/20759… As I said: "Όσα δεν φτάνει η αλεπού, τα κάνει τεχνητή νοημοσύνη".

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@hunnypaint It’s like when I used to play the Evangelion game for IOS felt I was the only person who played it

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who still plays Tomodachi Life almost every day. Well, I mean, I don’t really play the game, but I do make Mii’s at a Harvard graduate level.

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@Thunk20a I have one on OF 😌

@emmaluvcherries How I wish I was that ice cream

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the Skyrim soundtrack stays on during sex

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Eating sweaty ass will make you live longer

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