Knowing another language

Yes!

You’re approaching this from a “who do I like” angle.

Another approach is the “what’s being traded angle”. Right now EU imports mostly LNG from the US (“The EU had trade deficits in energy (€70 billion) and raw materials (€6 billion) and other goods (€2 billion).” (1). Norway is already exporting at max, EU does not want to exploit natural gas resources domestically, so that leaves only the golf states.

Export is mostly divided between vehicles, chemicals, machinery (“In 2023, the EU had trade surpluses in machinery & vehicles (€102 billion), chemicals (€58 billion), other manufactured goods (€55 billion)”).

So markets that can afford luxury german cars, canada, china, australia. But they’d have to compete with chinese cars. Basic chemicals are easier to sell elsewhere.

Opossum has the duffeldorf file

My guess it has to do with their 2 party political system. You have to SHOUT and pretend THE WORLD IS BURNING GAYS STEAL BABIES ALL POLICE IS RACIST EVERYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENED TO YOU IS BECAUSE OF THE OTHER DONT VOTE FOR THEM to scare 1% of voters one way or the other and get political power.

Messages of those extremes make their way over the big pond way way more often than the lady doing a job that she enjoys, having a pleasant evening with her family.

Panhandling

Probably option 1

How did you take this picture? 🤔

“Created” meaning stolen from labor that is undercompensated, or just outright stolen. “Destroyed” meaning the purported wealth was never real in the first place.

Creates as in a dude cooks a burger. Destroyed as in someone eats it.

No theft involved.

Under the premise that eventually this endless growth cycle

Exactly. It’s endless, so the premise is false. At a certain point they’ll just rename 100 dollar the neodollar, and it continues. It’s just bookkeeping, there’s no end.

It isn’t? It’s created and destroyed all of the time.

Eventually they’ll amass so much of the wealth that most of the lower class won’t be able to purchase anything other than essentials like food.

What’s the logic here? Someone else having a high net worth, means that you have less money?

There have always been bad books. There will always be good books. An arbitrary cutoff would only hurt myself.

Hehe, I’ll set a reminder

Ignore what politicians say, look at what they do.

Belgium

Simple = good

That is the fix

-g, --chgexit Exit when the output of command changes

I often get stuck in a frustrating loop of thought when I ponder the point of all of this.