So the tourists get off and then don't buy anything? Seems there's more than enough money to go around but the E-corp is paying off local politicians to keep all the money in their hands.
Hasn't that been the case for like a long time already? They control a substantial portion of the country's gdp and their upper management is essentially royalty.
I mean you said it, not me. They are like the most infamous for hiding their wealth. Maybe them and Major CPC party members are another. Of course characters like Putin and Kim (and associated upper brass) also hide the vast majority of their wealth. Like it kinda goes without saying, they have no reason to tell anyone and there is zero benefits in telling anyone.
Yes if you think what they report officially is correct. Most everyone is aware they only report a small fraction of their wealth. Musk is by far not the first trillionair, he is the first one publicly.
Nah the wealthiest people aren't on the list, and they are much wealthier than any of these guys. The family of Saud is way up there but keep most of their wealth hidden.
I mean people are pretty tired of yet another distro, but at least this person has some ideas. It looks to be more than just theming on a major base distro. Idk about the rest but I enjoy people exercising their freedom, it's not called FOSS for no reason.
What's up with the downvotes? I swear people on Lemmy can be so friendly and so intensely grumpy at the same time. Anyways, happy for you and you exercising your freedom. I'll give it a look out of curiosity.
I would think China would be more of a concern for the US in this as they are the only real contender. Maybe he was concerned someone not loyal may come across some unredacted files and pull a Snowden?
The discourse about AI across Lemmy is so interesting. People heavily deny the capability of current AI systems, the nearly exponential growth in it's capability since 2017, that we are in a race to AGI / ASI and the winner (assuming we solve the control / alignment problem) will essentially have a perpetual leverage over everyone else. Most I think are just seeing AI videos and images and think it is a stupid and useless toy poisoning their FYP.
Like I've had people literally call me a cultist or insane or brainwashed when I'm trying to give some caution that shit is getting serious and then you get articles like this.
Tongue condoms?