Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: "DeepSeek" - China AI App Shakes Up Tech Markets Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:17:03 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <20250128081639.00004242@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:17:04 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="badafcb688ceae3163f4072549b31f8e"; logging-data="3023383"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19LbUDcwI8EhOwEVd+b+MjbzYDLnrGe+qQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:GzzVTP0qRFmp4Z/sYZc4m+ut8qQ= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 3075 On 29/01/2025 14:18, D wrote: > "At my age, going back means giving red envelopes to the younger > generation, and I simply don't have the money to do that," he told the > Financial Times. > How the economy in China and Sweden fared China Sweden > GDP growth 5.0% 0.6% > Inflation 0.2% 2.8% > Unemployment 5.1% 8.4% > Public debt/GDP 84% 34% > Note: Swedish figures are Nordea's latest forecast. China's figures are > a combination of outcome and forecast > Source: Nordea, IMF > The problem is the rise of fairly dictatorial governments everywhere who think that:- - economists actually understand and can accurately model, economies. - economic policy from a centralised authority can make *wealth* appear by magic. Any fool can create *jobs* by taxing wealth producers and redistributing it via make-work public sector jobs. But to create *wealth* requires that people can make a living out of adding value and selling the product. But over regulation strangles this. I would never start a company in this country or the UK again, now. One smile at a female employee would be 'micro aggression' and if a male employee turned up in a frock I wouldn't be able to sack him for being stupid. It's all big corporates who can afford the overhead of managing this nonsense. Startups cant afford to. I think people know this and that is why more conservative political forces are gaining ground. Postmodern Marxism has jumped the shark. -- “Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance" - John K Galbraith