sola

@sola@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  they just feel anything that outrages them is important

  Interesting distinction. Do you have any further reading on this? I am not on any social media, thus I have no real world experience with doom/outrage scrolling, so I cannot make judgement about the plausibility of the statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a time just before big tech where consensus was humans where causing global warming due to burning fossil fuels. This was undermined in less than a decade by journalists and the biggest companies back then; Fossil fuel companies.

  Journalists are not the truth seeking warrior class they claim themselves to be. The population by large wants to be outraged, didn’t need algorithms to tell us, just read historical news. So journalists need to be regulated but covid showed they would rather burn the world to the ground than be restricted in anyway for a greater good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new report highlights the staggering truth about wage inequality in Australia. Here’s what we need to do better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I only got the Efficient Wage Theory for Gemini 2.5 pro and from the description I wasn’t convinced of it’s application to reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new report highlights the staggering truth about wage inequality in Australia. Here’s what we need to do better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coincidentally I asked Gemmi yesterday to give some modern economic theories where productivity can increase without suppressing wages. It couldn’t!

  In some ways expectations are probably too high as post world war low inequality appears to be a historical anomaly and nothing we are going back too as currently countries are competitive for capital and not cooperative enough to stop capital following exploitation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cannot take this argument seriously. In a world with a recent uptick in violence and perceived decline, the article is praising a person that has no values and does very little as the epitome of leadership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We want builders on site, not filling in forms’: Albanese government cuts red tape in bid to boost home building⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This implies Australia’s million average home value is caused by paper work! It is not realisitic. No government is going to significantly mess with house prices while home owners are the majority. Even if they build more, they will just increase immigration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really get how this would improve anything. We already dual income system. Most capital gains likely get a 50% discount. Invest under a company for likely a flat 25%.

  Cynically we know what is going to come of this summit, Corporate tax rate will be lowered to 25%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Limited incentive' for Coles and Woolworths to compete vigorously on price, and margins have risen, ACCC finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I diverge from common thoughts here. I don’t want my productivity going to prop up business lobby groups. Colesworth is the result of an economic system that cannot resolve the need for more efficiencies via economies of scale monopolies and the need for much competition to get an accurate price signal. No Australian party wants to tamper with the current economic system, so it was obvious this ACCC report was leading to nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia's Global Lithium seeks government help, alleging Chinese control attempt of its lithium project in Western Australia⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there any Australian public Lithium mining companies that are growing? I have looked a couple of times, nothning extensive and they all are in decline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only go back as far as Howard, so my personal take is Albo; easily. There is lying on policy which is the norm but lying on values makes him the worst. He championed himself being the kid raised by single mum in a housing commision who was going to be strong on the strong. It was all BS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hence in the upcoming election preference LNP/ALP last. The C-class of these companies will coordinate with these political parties to reduce the influence of employees in the workplace, so they can exploit the excess productivity for there own personal gain.