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  • Ok this is something I gave a lot of thought about. The mention of “congress” means you want a specific American answer, but I think the same logic can be applied everywhere, because all human cultures function according to similar principles.

    • 0.5% per year

    Meaning if you have a population of 100 million you can take up to 500k new people every year.

    Less than 0.1% it means you country is undesirable. More than 0.5% you will have trouble integrating all the new people. And integration is the main problem, You need an influx of new people big enough so you generate new ideas and new cultures, bur low enough to prevent formation of separate immigrant communities.








  • You’re not the only one who thinks so. Never tried it myself, but I’ve heard the same story from several people. Sure anecdotal evidence is not evidence, and so on. I’m convinced there is some truth to that, but not because of the direct causality.

    Maybe it’s a strong placebo (most likely). If you look into placebo effect you’ll see it can be really powerful. Or there is something else in the human body that antibiotics stimulate. Like it’s not directly attacking the virus, but doing something else that makes it easier to recover.







  • Makes the problems of capitalism even worse. Instead of the owner class you get an even smaller political class controlling all means of production - the party leadership. It becomes even more prone to corruption than capitalism.

    Adding to problems is the planned economy - it always results in misaligned incentives, bad allocation of resources, constant shortages…

    Third, possibly the worst, is the constant insistence on ideological purity and severe punishment of “thought crimes”. Or as they like to call it “counterrevolutionary activity”.

    Even though it was created out of good intentions, I don’t believe a lot positive aspects can be salvaged.