Yo, a Pole here. Can you explain what the commenter misrepresented and what’s the reality in Germany? I am curious.

I am assuming that like in the rest of the Europe, everyone gets healthcare and education, and that jobless do get welfare, as well as sick people. I can also see that your senior numbers are growing compared to young, so more of the budgets goes to supplement the pension schemes?

(And I don’t think Germany needs skilled/unskilled migrants to fill in open positions, as Germany has what, 3M unemployed people that could be retrained for them)

My dude. At over 4% market share companies are incentivised to buy out competition and become monopolies because it’s more profitable.

No one would be able to scale to serve global demand in any way, shape, or form

Yes. Perfect. Because any and all global companies so far are evil and anti-consumer. Disagree? Name 3.

The problem isn’t market share, it’s enforced market share. Anti-competitive practices. Lobbying. Buying out competition

So yeah, I’m glad we agree, that any company at 4% market share must be stopped from growing, because otherwise all of that happens.

Any business that has over 4% market rate should be forcibly split.

Steam is not FORCED to compete and innovate or go under, they do that at the whim of the owner. Who can change his mind. Or die, and the company will be inherited by whomever and sloppify.

Heck, anyone shilling that Steam is a good guy - ffs, you do not own the games you bought.

(Why 4%? There are some old studies that at 5% it brings more profit to get rid of the competition, below innovations are the way to get the money).

I know of no such increase.

The more you know 🌈

Bots aggressively scrapping everything they can.

Thats… Gummo?

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It’s called a kiki.

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Or a kaikai https://youtu.be/rfWeBYd7rkQ

Any parental rights hearing, education, and right to not be conscripted in case of war.

(At least in Europe)

But they do commit ~50% of spouse murders, so at least thet have that for them?

Oh, and the women are vastly underrepresented in the victim statistics.

Interestingly, some researchers when they control for provocation, do find that the difference is because of gender norms, and without them the violence rates equalize - see https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0033-2909.119.3.422

Another fun fact, when it comes to incarceration rates women do tend to get more lenient sentences because they are women (and act pitiful on the trail) - however it is slowly changing as more and more judges slowly learn to ignore that bullcrap.

Sources and initial readings can be found in this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime

It is fun :)

Not only that, but also vegan diet is literally making people crazy (or crazy people are more often on vegan diet, dealer’s choice).

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2020.1741505#abstract

The majority of studies, and especially the higher quality studies, showed that those who avoided meat consumption had significantly higher rates or risk of depression, anxiety, and/or self-harm behaviors. There was mixed evidence for temporal relations, but study designs and a lack of rigor precluded inferences of causal relations. Our study does not support meat avoidance as a strategy to benefit psychological health.