en serio no entiendo su postura al respecto ni lo que quieren
si el pais tenia ya 200 por ciento de inflacion y una montana de deuda, qué solucion proponen ellos para arreglar la situacion sin cortar el gasto publico o los subsidios?
So, unlike places like brazil, columbia or mexico where infrastructure development is extremely uneven between regions, the US has, even in the poorest regions, access to the internet, water, police presence, post offices, etc despite having high levels of wealth and income inequality, but why?
so, basically i'm moving to a city that's statistically safe but has a high petty crime and pickpocketing issue, so I want to find the most convenient way to be able to walk around without that anxiety
i have everything on my phone, from a digital id to money, so i don't need to carry anything else
should i use a sling bag or just keep my phone in my jeans? and how safe is that? especially in crowded transport? thx
Hello,
so basically when I learn a new language, especially one that's similar to ones I already speak, I kind of create a separate character so as not to confuse it with others and keep it "in its own box"
Like, for portuguese, I learnt the Rio accent which tends to be more expressive and energetic, for French, I learnt the one from Marseille, for spanish I learnt the Andaluz accent
So, for Italian, I want to try to learn a "fancy accent" and also supplement it with a focus on formal language first before I move to regular day to day speech,
Hence, i wanna ask, what accent is usually considered "the fanciest", as subjective as that is, in italian? thanks
So it's no secret that ever since our independence, we tried to manufacture and make everything domestically and build state-owned or state-backed institutions that benefit from massive indiscriminate subsidies on almost everything and very high import tariffs
This sort of created a paradox where most things are very cheap for the average consumer because they're massively subsidized directly or indirectly via subsidizing stuff like water and electricity which are needed to produce them, but everything imported feels luxurious partially because it reflects the real cost of what that product needs to be manufactured and partly because of high tariffs that can make it cost double or triple it's nominal price abroad
That disincentivizes companies from trying to innovate or find ways to become more efficient by integrating high-tech machinery and optimizing the production process because, well, they're oligopolies that get electricity and water practically for free and know the average customer would prefer to buy their products over imported products that might be higher quality but cost much more
These are often referred to as "zombie companies" and the problem with building an entire economy with these companies is that they take up massive amounts of resources and use them inefficiently
it's great for solving basic human needs in the short term, but quite bad for long-term prosperity and actual development
Instead, what most developed economies did was focus on specific sectors where their human capital, natural resources, or even business culture excelled at, like chip manufacturing in Taiwan, high-end watches and banking in Switzerland, etc
These countries rely on massive free trade agreements and have invested in supply chains that make that sort of hyperspecialization not just possible but incredibly lucrative
A German company can import energy from Norway to build a machine and send it via advanced railway systems to France quickly, where it's used to produce another product that's shipped to italy for example
It's comparable to a company where, instead of everyone having to make everything themselves, they specialize in one task and complement each other
this has geopolitical advantages as well, because if a country like switzerland has the banks where people worldwide put their money in, it will be very politically costly for any foreign country to attack it, because it will face immense pressure from other places that rely on it either for their finances or their supply chains or just as a reliable high purchasing power consumer market for their products
So, instead of massive subsidies on everything, money from oil and gas should've gone to providing direct cash transfers to the poor, to building critical infrastructure and focusing on a handful of sectors and investing deeply in their capital deepening to make them efficient and not just globally competitive, but virtually unparalelled, and wealth from these companies would trickle down either via secondary companies that support the ecosystem or taxes that are later invested in stuff like education and healthcare
of course, it's never been the fact that we lack the resources needed to create world-class companies in a handful of sectors, but that it's politically difficult or even impossible to convince the stakeholders of current national industries, who tend to be politically connected, to allow for the creative destruction that's necessary to redirect resources to industries and sectors where we can thrive in
so, what do you think?
Hola
Me mudo a caba dentro de poco para estudiar y estoy empezando a buscar roomie. Como soy nuevo en esto, quería pedirles consejos: qué cosas son claves a la hora de convivir con alguien? ¡Gracias!
Hola,
bueno, sé que es tecnicamente la segunda capital mas segura de las americas en cuanto a la tasa de homocidios y que el perfil de seguridad depende mucho del barrio
pero lei en muchos posts en reddit que la ciudad se siente mucho mas peligrosa de lo que pueda parecer en las estadisticas
es cierto? y qué hago para tener una experiencia "smooth" en CABA?
gracias de antemano!
Sooo basically, I speak Spanish and Portuguese and I want to spend a few years in a country where that's spoken and study there to be able to cement them fully and also get to have a local experience there, so I'm researching places in either brazil or the spanish-speaking part of latam, namely places like santiago, chile or mexico city, etc
but my main concern is that there would be bureaucratic complications, so for algerians who applied to similar places, was it straight forward? because i don't want to spend months planning only for the visa not to be approved
i know latam is a huge place and each country is different, but i want to know what the birds eye view looks like
thanks in advance!