My experience tells me, especially if you're going over 100 infamy points, the best economic model in Victoria 3 is a planned economy with wages high enough to ensure full employment without relying on exports to support the economy, but not too high wages because we don't want to overpay soldiers.
As a result, we have the maximum amount of money as goverment and can mobilize a large number of people into the army.
If we don't cross the 100 infamy threshold, we can engage in foreign investment and be a free market economy with high dividend taxes. And use that money to finance our armies.
But we have a risk, especially in multiplayer, that players will simply nationalize our foreign buildings, and also if we invest a lot in other countries, they will become stronger and it will be more difficult for us to capture them.
In socialism, a larger share of the product is typically collectivized and redistributed through the state or society as a whole. From an incentive-theoretic perspective, when individuals receive a smaller direct return from additional effort, their motivation to work may decline.
Therefore, the problem of weak labor incentives is not unique to capitalism; it can also arise in socialism when the worker is not the residual claimant of the product of labor.
Even in social-democratic societies, this issue can still emerge: highly educated and productive individuals may face substantial taxation and redistribution, which can reduce the direct rewards of their labor by transferring part of the value they create to those who contribute less economically, whether due to lower skills, lower productivity, or social disadvantage.
En 1990, España tenía leyes inmobiliarias muy estrictas. Los bancos y las empresas podían echar a la gente a la calle en cuestión de meses si no pagaban sus préstamos.
El rápido crecimiento económico de España y sus estrictas leyes de protección de la propiedad han generado un altísimo nivel de crecimiento en la construcción de viviendas.
Muchas empresas extranjeras construyeron viviendas en España antes de 2008.
Cuando estalló la crisis y la burbuja hipotecaria se disparó en 2008, muchas personas perdieron sus empleos en España y, como consecuencia, los bancos y las empresas comenzaron a desahuciar a la gente en masa.
España ha aprobado muchas leyes y el gobierno también ha hecho esfuerzos para detener esto.
Como resultado, los ocupantes de viviendas obtuvieron algunos de los derechos más amplios del mundo. Las empresas perdieron la capacidad de desalojar a las personas de sus hogares.
Estas leyes provocaron pérdidas de cientos de millones de dólares para los bancos y las empresas que poseían propiedades en España.
La mayoría de las empresas extranjeras abandonaron España y dejaron de construir nuevas viviendas.
Actualmente, España recibe más inmigrantes nuevos que cualquier otro país europeo.
Pero el nivel de construcción de viviendas nuevas es muy bajo.
Una de las principales razones por las que las empresas extranjeras y españolas no invierten en la construcción de nuevas viviendas es la excesiva laxitud de la legislación para los ocupantes ilegales. Las empresas y los bancos siguen perdiendo dinero y, a menudo, no pueden desalojar a los ocupantes.
La población de España está creciendo. El número de viviendas disponibles está disminuyendo.
Esto encarece para el gobierno el reasentamiento de los ocupantes, y el gobierno tiene más incentivos para trasladar estos costos a los bancos y las empresas.
Como consecuencia, los precios de los inmuebles están subiendo. Los derechos de los ocupantes siguen siendo sólidos.
Esto crea una espiral sin fin que se vuelve imposible de romper.
The most surprising thing is that these images often get higher clicks than my own work. Most people don't notice that my images are AI-powered. I simply use screenshots and prompts that I feed the AI to generate beautiful images for me.
Yes, if you watch long enough, you'll realize that even the background is an AI-processed image. But 90% of people don't do that.
I think in about a year, no one will be able to distinguish AI images from human work for YouTube images.
I have to admit. I've been making YouTube videos and images for YouTube videos for about 10 years now, and AI has destroyed me. I simply won't waste any more time creating images. AI is already doing this often better than me. My job is simply generating various prompts and selecting the best images that I think will get the most clicks.
I should also mention that I use AI to remove noise from my voice. Moreover, I've already seen AI tools that edit videos. BUT they're quite expensive for gaming videos. I believe in a few years, someone will finally be able to perfect AI for general video editing, word cutting, zooming, etc.
My friend is already using these AI tools for video editing, and he just seems crazy. He creates videos on his topic every few days, very in-depth, very well-edited. As far as I understand, he prepares the material using AI, then records audio, video, and his face, and then the AI edits this material, creating effects and transitions. I'm not sure which AI he's using now, but as far as I understand, he uses different models for specific tasks. But it seems unrealistic, videos that get millions of views every few days new vidoes. And his audience doesn't even know that his videos are edited by AI.
Someone said that AI will create inequality in our society. And I must admit, this has already begun, even on YouTube. Those who use AI tools significantly increase their productivity while spending the same amount of money on content creation.
Interesting times.
So, I studied the history of Soviet Russia, and their government was doing the same thing as the American government. Their official program was to produce a car, sausage, and so on for every Soviet family. So, their objective goals were consumerism. The same consumerism that's destroying our planet under capitalism. Why do you think socialism will work better for you? Socialism leads to a concentration of power in the hands of a few, sometimes even less than under capitalism, which ultimately reduces the value of human life for the government. The government then begins to implement policies aimed not at preserving human lives but at satisfying the needs of the ruling elite. I'd like to hear your justifications. How will your socialism, driven by the same consumerism of the ruling elite, preserve the environment better than Capitalism?
Seriously. He recently made a video showing a billionaire's apartment, and the billionaire said he was afraid of attacks from left-wing radicals because of Mamdami's statements and the video.
Capital flight from New York began earlier, but Mamdami is clearly helping to accelerate the outflow of capital and brainpower from the city.
New York is literally synonymous with capitalism, financial companies, and international corporations.
The city will simply go bankrupt if capital flight continues.
Maybe I'm stupid, but if I were Mamdami, I'd try my best to attract capitalists to the city. Strive to build a social democracy where capitalism exists in harmony with the rich. And not stir up anti-billionaire talk, which only leads to capital flight.
It seems he's not very smart.
