Ok, so we’re going to start off with Germany, and then go to the US, no idea why they ended up in the same chapter.
Apparently the North American economy (sorry Canada is getting dragged into this) is dominated by unusual things like: 1) “practically free land” because I think “stolen” isn’t going to feature here 2) slavery (this will be absolutely fucked up I can tell) 3) a huge influx of people to all of the “free land” and of course the people they kidnapped.
It’s weird how he manages to be so casual about things, giving zero context. - Hey Germany acquired massive public debt in 1943-1944 (throwing it out like it’s just a random time).
Germany did the inflation thing, which was apparently so extreme Germans don’t like inflation anymore. But it shrunk the debt to basically zero by 1950. Which I assume came at the cost of the population struggling massively. They did a similar thing apparently after WWI which also was terrible. Germans, feel free to chime in here, I don’t know anything about this.
Scene: tech meeting, devs around a conference table, one guy on a sofa in the back, possibly sleeping.
Senior dev to junior dev: So I told you to add 3 commandline arguments to the application. How did that go?
Junior dev whipping out their notebook: Yes! So, I created three new modules!
Surprised faces all around the table. Guy in the back on the sofa removes his headphones.
Senior dev: …ok?
Junior: YES! One module is sorting algorithms, some stable some not, I’ll leave it to you to decide which to use!
Narrator: no tests
Junior: then I made a module for string processing algorithms! I made a bit more than I think we need, but I felt it should be complete!
Narrator: no tests
Junior: and finally I made a finite state machine library so that you can test if the combination of arguments is valid
Narrator: absolutely zero tests
Junior beaming 😃
Senior: … ok so we’re not doing that.
Other juniors around the table silently in their heads: he’s just jealous because he couldn’t make anything so fantastic!
Guy in the sofa silently checks in importing a command-line arg library, sets up the three arguments and writes 9 tests. Then puts the headphones back on with the music from Zelda.
Capitalist = smart people Communism = stupid people This guy is a charmer. Also, why do you need to state your bias, dude? Could it be that this is just makeup on your opinion? Asking for a friend.
I just can’t get over how the man who has done zero analysis on how his data skews so immensely white, male and landowner, is actually going to spend time analyzing the economy of buying and selling human beings.
Omg this shit is so racist. He has zero shame. The colonialism is strong with this one.
But let’s do methodology (because the rest is just disgusting): he has chosen France, Great Britain, Germany and the US over the past 300 years as the countries he will extrapolate from. He has just talked about how France and Great Britain “owned” large parts of Africa and Asia. Apparently the German colonial “assets” were insignificant. But they were good at tech or something. Anyhoo, these very average countries, during this very “normal” time of colonial expansion, slavery and plundering of natural resources (my words, he doesn’t actually mention it at all), are of course the perfect candidates to extrapolate from to make predictions about similar countries in this century such as… Brazil, India and China? Sounds reasonable. Carry on.
I just can’t about how much he seems to crave colonialism. And seems to blame the countries who were/are victims of it. And “counties owned by other countries” is just a disgusting phrase.
I’m failing hard on this one, this shit is so extremely racist. And he doesn’t even discuss it in context as he goes along. It’s like what happened was Fine Actually. https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112682532791671773
Guy who did not spend one sentence on the bias of his data, or how colonialism is the direct cause of poverty and political instability all over the world, just spent a good chunk of time on compound interest.