this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
54 points (100.0% liked)

Europe

303 readers
7 users here now

Anything about Europe. You can post in any European language.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
top 15 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looks like it's time for some Public/Private partnerships! Really just let the free market handle it. Selling off public utilities will just be more efficient. Because no big beauracravic overhead and no it's not disaster capitalism it's opportunity capitalism look at how great Argentina is now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Clearly the problem is that they tax the rich too much, if they just let the job creators create more jobs, they could create light-keeping-on jobs and the problem will solve itself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Exactly. In fact if they just privatize the entire city, eliminate all taxes and switch from the pound to Bitcoin it would be a paradise for investors and business owners alike! Win win!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, it’s socialism. Everything bad under capitalism is actually socialism.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shakes fist

McDonalds is the communist deep state!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Marxism-Leninism-McDonaldism

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, back in the ’90s hundreds of Soviets queued up because they were excited to try some Yankee fast‐food for the first time. It made sense if you saw it from their perspective, but as somebody stuck in Imperial America I don’t see the appeal. It’s just some mediocre, overpriced fast‐food that keeps you full for maybe about an hour or two if it doesn’t act like a laxative before then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This photo really represents the end of an era, it's just such a perfect representation of what capitalism promised them, vs what it actually delivered them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

We have that too in Antwerp. Came home from a party that other day to find my entire neighborhood pitch black. Couldn't see a thing and I was lucky to have my phone with a flashlights. Can't imagine how women must feel like.

It was a Saturday night as well. As in, peak going out time in the city.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Are there other cities in BE and NL suffering from the same?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem with imperialism and colonialism is that colonized people eventually break free. The British Empire squandered its ill gotten wealth with nothing to show for it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Indeed, eventually the cost of maintaining the empire exceeds the plunder you get from it and at that point the core becomes rapidly hollowed out.