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The @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net approach would be to praise America for subverting that Chinese plan, and I can't really say that's terribly wrong, but the Biden admin October Surprise-ing itself due to potentially dramatically raising oil prices also doesn't seem very productive.
Oil prices are not likely to go higher no matter what(nukes flying into Saudi Arabia excluded).
OPEC+ is currently doing "voluntary" supply cuts. The majority of these cuts are coming from SA and they are under pressure as a result of the long term downtrend they're having a budget crisis.
Right now the issue is some members(inc. Iraq/Russia) have to do their own production cuts to compensate for previous overproduction. However if there is no compliance SA is threatning to cancel their cut which could move oil even lower.
For now all members are reassuring they'll comply with the cuts which is what SA wants to see, but if this doesn't happen the only destination is lower prices. Alternatively any major real war will be a great relief for them as these cuts will then be delayed/reduced overall. It also means there is more than enough supply ready to counter any crisis.
The underlying downtrend is driven by the weak Chinese demand narrative and it wont change in the short-medium term, at the end everyone knows China is the only real growing economy.
It can't be understated, Saudi Minister Warns of $50 Oil as OPEC+ Members Flout Production Curbs(WSJ)
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I'm 6 episodes into Make Heroine ga Oosugiru!(makeine) and its quite a good surprise in every way. At this rate it is definitely one of the best of the year. Surprisngly top tier production and it doesn't feel like it was wasted on "just another light novel".
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Brent crude was up 5% today, seems like a big jump(it is definitely unusual) but the actual price is still well below and barely recovering from the recent crash.
Keeping in mind in the past these sorts of geopolitical events would have sent oil to near all time highs, these days its barely a bump up. Brent crude needs to go from $73 right now to at least $85 before things start getting interesting again.
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You should ignore for a moment the same theories people keep posting here and look at what people like Rand corp actualy say about Russia.
Here this is a great paper by them. Postwar U.S. Strategy Toward Russia(2024)
It shows exactly what they consider to be the relevant points about Russia today. In general these neolibs always see Russia as a geopolitical rival, they don't believe to have "won" per se because there is a deep fundamental distrust and a belief(also racist) that they'll never be truly on board with US interests.
The chart on that page is excellent actually.
I've highlighted the key points from both groups below.
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World A: After the Less Favorable WarWar outcomes
The conflict ends after a long war of attrition
China provides lethal aid to Russia
The war ends in a weak ceasefire
Ukraine suffers modest territorial setbacks
Strategic setting in the immediate aftermath of the war
Russia is primarily imperialist and also security-motivated
Russia is weakened by the war but poised to rearm
Russia-China relations are very close
Ukraine is focused on territorial reconquest
Ukraine is economically devastated
NATO is divided over wartime policy toward Russia and Ukraine
The U.S. shift to the Indo-Pacific region is limited by the war in Europe
There are U.S.-China tensions because of Beijing's support for Moscow
Global economic fragmentation occurs because of sanctions and counter-sanctions
And
Hardline Approach
Strategic stability
Reject arms control negotiations
Develop new nuclear capabilities and expand force posture
Deploy more BMD installations
Deploy intermediate-range ground-based missiles to Europe
Military presence in Europe
Sustain elevated force levels
Deploy more forces into Eastern Europe
Reject talks on limiting conventional forces in Europe
Security relationship with Ukraine
Provide assistance that enables offensive operations
Integrate Ukraine's military into NATO
Support open door and Ukrainian membership
Policy toward other non-NATO former Soviet states
Support Georgia's NATO integration and membership
Increase security cooperation with regional states
Roll back Russian influence
Economic relations with Russia
Sustain most wartime sanctions
As you can see, its both frightening and elucidating how painfuly obvious they are about their goals and how they consider getting there.
Ukraine is a plan gone wrong and that plan is to contain Russian interests. For example, they've appropriated Imperialism mean a vulgar term completely opposite to Lenin's. Rand corp ghouls and everyone in Washington truly believe Russia is an imperialist competitor.
Here is another of their research papers from 2019
Despite these vulnerabilities and anxieties, Russia remains a powerful country that still manages to be a U.S. peer competitor in a few key domains. Recognizing that some level of competition with Russia is inevitable, RAND researchers conducted a qualitative assessment of “cost-imposing options” that could unbalance and overextend Russia. Such cost-imposing options could place new burdens on Russia, ideally heavier burdens than would be imposed on the United States for pursuing those options.
In the Geopolitical Cost-Imposing Options they included "Provide lethal aid to Ukraine" as medium-high cost and success rates.
In Economic Cost-Imposing Options they put "Impose deeper trade and financial sanctions" as high and clearly listed "Increase Europe’s ability to import LNG from sources other than Russia" which was literaly the opposite of what happened and the reason for EU's crash.
Further below you can read the section Land and Multidomain Cost-Imposing Measures and basicaly note how all options revolve around increasing US military presence in Europe and more militarization of NATO.
It is clear to me these people would not be suggesting this back in 2019 if they didn't think Russia was a real competitor.
Of course I don't think these people are particularly correct or even 100% truthful, but to have a pulse on what neolibs think does require to read and listen to what they actualy say.
Unfortunately we have not moved on from what Michael Hudson popularized in '22. The idea the US somehow wanted this war just to destroy the EU is not accurate. For example the US did not believe energy prices would skyrocket, they even tried the price cap so they could reduce Russian profits and stop the inflation crisis worldwide.
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Contrast the scale of these movements with Ukraine begging 2 years for half a dozen abandoned F-16s sitting on a scrap warehouse somewhere.
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Their range estimates are way off. The 4000km range west should only hit Instanbul yet they put it almost inside Italy. Xinjiang is exactly 4000km to the Ukraine-Poland border yet they put it almost halfway across Austria. Same thing with Sweden. Its about 10% off.
Towards the east its a whole 1000km off towards the US. That 4000 km range is actualy almost inside Canada which in reality is over 5000 km away.
Yet they managed to get the 4000 km range to Australia quite accurately. If its mean to represent the DF-4 then I don't get it, surely it would make more sense to add the upper bound of 5500km too and not his weird ass projection.
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The problem is nobody else learned their lesson either. Why should Iran be any different?
China says US bad twice a day monday through friday and on the weekends they shake hands with Hitler and praise Kissinger?
Russia is not anti-west and Putin is the exception exactly because of his personal experience. If you remove this he is exactly the same anti-communist fascist as everyone else. He is not fundamentally anti-west and Russia is full of MAGA idiots that think [insert Trump-like idiot here] will be better for them because [insert woke garbage here]. If the US political climate swings back towards MAGA in the future how easy will it be to fool these Russian fascists again?
India/Modi actively sabotages BRICS and Brazil is literaly irrelevant as Lula's theatrics fools nobody exactly because the actual Brazilian political climate is extremely biased towards the far-right and besides he is no stranger to neoliberalism at home anyway.
Iran should learn their lesson, there is no normalization and there is no trusting the US. This is obvious, but if the point is this is a learning experience, then I'm pessimistic anyone is learning anything.
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The point is that this signals exactly what the western market wants to see, a clear sign that the party is willing to follow neoliberal economics at crucial steps now and in the future.
IMO greed(profit) speaks the loudest, Wall st. doesn't realy care or believe in all these fearmongering narratives, instead they fear the perception that the CPC can "fuck up" the economy at any time by doing that evil socialism thing.
Wall Street loves it because it shows the party is in control and takes the economic data seriously while also showing there should be no fear of the CPC taking any "socialist" measures in the short term. Again it shows what everyone wants to see, that the party cares more about economic data than anything else.
The thought things can be fixed with just pumping money is a slippery slope, yet its no surprise why capitalists are loving it.
But I think it’s safe to say that with the Fed lowering the rates, we are now entering the Phase 2 of the US financial warfare against China. Phase 3 being the ultimate speculative attack by selling its assets all at once.
You should temper your expectations here, China has a lot of room to make stupid decisions still, while the US is entirely built on a house of cards called "economic data" which would be fine if not for the unbelievably asinine attempts made to justify why bad data is good actualy.
The question of soft/hard landing is basically down to how the market wants to interpret the narrative at any point in time.
If you pay attention at all to these narratives the neolibs already flip flopped a dozen times since 2020.
Inflation was bad, then it wasn't, then it was "sticky", then it was "solved" anyway because fuck food and rent anyway so the fed must cut rates, but actualy not yet because if they do it means they're afraid the bad data is bad actualy and they're desperate, but actualy now the bad data is not bad at all because turns out the fed mandate is throws dice who fucking knows at this point so we must cut rates now otherwise it wont be soft landing anymore except any bad jobs report can turn soft landing into bad landing overnight.
I'm not sure I ever believed the US can wage such an economic war, upon reflection to me it seems since 2020 all this current political/economic circus can't be maintained if the US does intend to get serious against China.
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All China has to do is stop trading with a country, they don't need to launch a single missile.
I agree but when it was suggested that China should have done this back earlier this year against Israel quite some people thought this unwarranted though.
I used to say these types of economic sanctions were the very bare minimum China could have done to intervene on the genocide against Israel, raise the stakes for the US at barely no risk for China themselves, but instead we have nothing at all at except speeches that say US bad on one hand while countless US officials traveled to Beijing on the other hand.
Its cool to have a weapon you're never willing to use or one which people will bend backwards to justify not using.
China currently worships "non-interventionism" for many reasons, a nuclear threat is the exact opposite of that so I don't think its smart to read this test as a message either.
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IDK anymore if there is anything that would actualy pull NATO into this war besides a direct attack, not when Israel is still a major issue after 1 year and they still are keen on baiting China.
Maybe there needs to be a serious bluff calling here. Is the US actualy willing to start a WW3 in Ukraine and potentialy abandon Israel? I'm like 60, maybe even 70/30 on Russia should retaliate if we get to a situation where Ukraine succesffuly hits an important target and that itself is a long shot atm.
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You must be joking,seriously there is no way this is your argument lol.
Imagine one comment
"I wish global leftists would focus on material issues since we tend to agree 99% of the time"
and another comment
"You know I don't think nazism, white supremacy, xenophobia or transphobia are not particularly relevant issues, so long as they're helping to build communism I'm fine with any of that".
Would you see that user as a clown or not? You literaly undermine the premise of the first one, what exactly is the 1% if not any of these things? Jesus take your head of your ass lol.
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I love how leftists will agree on 99% of things but become sworn enemies with other leftists over AI or masks or outdoor cats or some shit.
I don't care if Norman Finkelstein is transphobic.
What the fuck are you talking about, your other comment is about outdoor cats, now you talk about transphobia as if both are remotely the same thing. You have zero credibility if that is how you see the world.
Building socialism by supporting opinions that directly harm the people you want to help. The most generous take here is you're completely lost.
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Think about it economicaly, studio execs know that the boomer white racist population is not that big and pandering to them is preaching to the choir in a church full of corpses.
No matter what it makes economic sense to always pander to the younger generation to make sure you have a growing market.
George Lucas's problem is his obvious lack of talent but he was a very important landmark, by explicitly saying "hey the biggest hollywood franchise needs younger fans yesterday!". The last 20 years is basically hollywood realizing this demographic shift, its not 1965 anymore and you absolutely can't pretend some cracker in the south is representative of the entire population or even the majority.
Demographically these crazy chud middle class whites are not more than 50% of the population, not even close in fact. It doesn't make that much sense to alienate the majority. They're the niche market instead.
While there may be the obvious economic difference and white middle class have a lot more money this doesn't matter when buying a movie ticket is not like financing a $500k home.
It makes perfect sense for media to reflect the changing US demographics and specialy the urbanization and rural vs urban division in political views.
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You're absolutely right about the illusion but IMO the Bernie era gave people including many socialists/leftists who considered him as harm reduction a complete illusion of what the underlying political climate was heading towards.
While Bernie was campaigning on very good vibes and huge crowds asking for healthcare the population was heading increasingly away from the "traditional" both parties values of decades prior.
Its obvious Trump completely destroyed traditional conservatism but for the Democrats to destroy Bernie they had no alternative but plant the seeds of Blue MAGA.
Biden only got there because he was the only alternative to defeat Bernie without the Dems jumping off a cliff politically. Then they pulled this Biden coup only because Biden was absurdly unpopular. IMO if they tried the same shit with the Bernie nomination things would have been very interesting back then.
Dems could have avoided this by just dealing with Bernie as the coward and incoherent fool he is as president, at least they would have had 8 years of probably the most popular president in history.
Instead the year is 2024 and Blue MAGA is not a parody, its the foundation of the party.
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I am not sure I agree but it doesn't matter because the most likely outcome is they will be and they'll write articles trying to convince us AI is good actualy before they end up being fired the very next day.
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To be fair I wouldn't take these headlines at face value simply given these companies have ridiculous and stupid "expectations". The games are quite profitable.
Stupid expectations of straight line up never ending graphs. Expect everything you make to make as much money as the previous release instead of embracing or simply accepting you're already winning, you're already making stupid amounts of profit, 10% higher or lower doesn't mean anything.
Not only is Rebirth already 4 years late(who cares at this point) FF7 remake was also release exactly in the mid of COVID(April '20), surely people should understand by now you may erase that from memory, that consumption habit will never come back.
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Yep absolute cinema, the good old days of... checks notes 2022. lol That the China we needed more of, it was moments like this that gave me the impression China was going to be a lot more adversarial going forward compared to the reality of what actually happened since then.
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I think at least since COVID its clear its as much anti-Biden than pro-Trump. For both of them actualy its more about what the opposition says or does than your own rethoric, not to deny that is important, but clearly some people vote more based on what they hate the most.
So we look back and Biden spent 4 years gaslighting people that everything is fine even if your rent doubled. They repeat Fed shit through the liberal media as if people not only understand but agree with all the punching left/down they're doing.
"Inflation is under control", "robust jobs market", "excess savings" lol you know the memes I'm sure.
I just got this randomly by the algo lol. I know nothing of him or his channel. Despite the bad introduction he gets there about 10-15 minutes in. Of course there is no reason to watch a random guy talk for 40 minutes but I do think it is kind of bittersweet, personally I liked that he cares about the dog. The ultimate reason? American healthcare is demoralizing even for people who are the top of the elite experts in their field. Some of them end up deeply unhappy, traumatized even. The contradictions are obvious, so extremely obvious its not just impossible not to notice but not feel bad about it. Moral of the story? Most people are not privileged enough to just quit but if you find yourself in this situation and you can do it, actually consider it. This capitalist world isn't worth your personal sacrifice, no matter how good your intentions.
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A long endorsement of open source software before announcing he will be making Godot tutorials now. Might be a good incentive to switch or try out game dev if you're new btw.
>I prefers the term of Dialectical Materialism simulator. >It’s a fantasy game for closet commies, as HOI IV is for closet Nazis or Wehraboos in the end I'm not bothering to read much of this(500 comments?), but after a few minutes quick glance its the usual fairly above average positive response as usual. I wonder if it is because with the game becoming less popular again most of the mainstream is gone already.
WW2 poster [Wiki](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:THIS_MAN_IS_YOUR_FRIEND._RUSSIAN_-_NARA_-_515795.jpg)
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>**22 December 2023** >Amazon may no longer sell its own wifi routers in Germany, as they infringe a Wifi 6 patent from Huawei. This was decided by Munich Regional Court last week following the oral hearing. The ruling does not affect the sale of third-party wifi routers via the Amazon platform. >Two European subsidiaries of Amazon and Eero – a manufacturer of wifi routers also owned by Amazon – have infringed European patent EP 3334112 and may now no longer sell Wifi-6-capable products in Germany. The Regional Court Munich handed down this ruling on December 15, on the same day as the hearing. >Huawei had sued for injunctive relief, information and accounting, destruction, recall and damages (case ID: 7 O 10988/22). >However, the ruling only affects wifi routers that Amazon and Eero manufacture themselves, such as the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4k. Other manufacturers may continue to sell their products via the Amazon platform. >**Potential damages** >Huawei can enforce the judgment against a security deposit totaling €4.5 million. Amazon may appeal against the judgment, and this is considered likely. However, the court has not justified its surprisingly quick decision in writing yet. According to JUVE Patent information Amazon has not yet filed an appeal. >If the ruling stands, Amazon would have to compensate Huawei for the damages it has suffered since 19 March 2020. According to JUVE Patent information, Amazon has not thus far filed a nullity action against EP 112, but has concentrated on the FRAND defence. >**Four claims against Amazon** >The judgment is part of a larger dispute over Wifi 6 patents. Huawei has also sued Amazon over another Wifi 6 patent in Munich (case ID: 7 O 10987/22). The court will hear this case in March 2024. In Düsseldorf and Munich, Huawei sued Amazon over a Wifi 5 patent, but the courts have not yet set a date for the oral hearing. >Huawei is also taking action against Fritzbox manufacturer AVM with two infringement suits at the Regional Court Munich. In November, according to press reports the court ordered AVM to cease and desist. The court was of the opinion that Wifi-6-capable AVM products infringed Huawei’s EP 3 337 077. AVM has since appealed against the ruling. >In addition, Huawei sued other companies such as Netgear and automotive group Stellantis. The Chinese company sued the former at Düsseldorf Regional Court. Huawei sued Stellantis back in 2022 over mobile phone patents that play a role in car connectivity. The Netherlands-based company manufactures about six million cars a year under the Fiat, Opel, Peugeot and Citroën brands. >**Huawei turns to UPC** >While Huawei only sued Amazon and AVM in German patent courts, the Chinese company escalated its dispute with Netgear to the Unified Patent Court in July. Previously, Huawei had not had much success at Düsseldorf Regional Court. The court had dismissed one of Huawei’s lawsuits and suspended the second. >Huawei’s lawsuit at the Munich local division was one of the first SEP proceedings at the new court (case ID: ACT_459771/2023). According to the website www.upc.beetz.nl Netgear recently has filed a counter claim of revocation with the UPC. Where are the "but but ze seeseepee only steals our technology!111!!" responses now lol.
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This is *You're Not Old Enough for an i9* the video. Actual good comment I like >For a document like this to go out, it has to go through multiple stages of approval… that’s nuts to think about Yep, forget for a moment all the Marxist analysis you'd normaly do about capitalism and just think of examples like this, this is one of the best examples of collective narcissistic disorder or something, either someone at the top was realy invested to get this presentation done like this or "marketing" is realy just code word for the psychopath department.
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"This isn't one of your fucking gremlins its an Enterprise"
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Historical/WW2 stuff for the first half, foreign tanks and vehicles starting from @22:00
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No real consequences though, still fucking rich and will still get another job elsewhere but maybe they can get someone less ghoulish this time. Yeah no.
Being a Unity tutorial maker in 2023 sounds like pain right now lol. I do have to say the joker part is a bit silly, I've used Unity before as a hobbyist and *Unity Engine* is fine IMO, more than fine even compared to the alternatives. Every engine has problems, pick the right tool for the job. Unity Technologies, the piece of shit company is the problem.
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This is a perfect example of a staged tour, you wont see but behind the camera there is a CCP death squad pointing their guns towards the children, you'll often see them laughing but they're realy just child actors specialy trained by CCP from the age of 3 so they can participate in propaganda videos. 
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1689850251815841792/photo/1) [Telegram](https://t.me/Slavyangrad/58667) >Greek football fans from Aris Thessaloniki hung a banner in support of Russian forces in a a match against Dinamo Kiev. Aris also won the match 1-0  [Telegram](https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/30183) >Another picture of the banner from Aris F.C. form the Greek city of Thessalonica: >- Smash Azov Nazis, with the Soviet Victory flag and the flags of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics.
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Google translate >Former orderlies of former President Jair Bolsonaro deleted at least 17,354 functional emails from their inboxes. g1 and TV Globo had access to the material, which was sent to the CPI of the Coup attempt on January 8th. >*The list of e-mails was found in the Trash folder of each of the helpers. According to the company responsible for the e-mail management program, for the items to be permanently deleted, it was necessary to go to the trash folder and delete the list again.* >Only aide-de-camp Danilo Calhares did not have deleted e-mails still in his inbox. He took office as an adjutant in December 2020, and the first email in the inbox is from November 2022. That is, only he managed to execute the definitive deletion of emails. Right wingers are idiots, absolute fucking idiots.
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Literally spy balloon 2.0. This time a community center for helping immigrants with government paperwork is actually a secret spy agency. > He clarified that it was a police overseas service station, which was different from an actual police station. According to him, no police officers from China had visited their office and the association was focused on helping Chinese citizens renew and complete forms. > Jimmy Lu explained that during the pandemic, many Chinese immigrants were unable to travel back to China due to restrictions. To aid them, the association collaborated with the local police station in Fuzhou to remotely assist immigrants in renewing their Chinese driver’s licenses, as well as other necessary documents. >Jimmy Lu said that the association offered its office as a venue for Chinese immigrants to have virtual meetings with police officers in China. The staff at the association also assisted in measuring the applicants’ vision and weight to ensure their driver’s license information was up-to-date. The association informed Chinese-language media in NYC when establishing the police service station in 2022. In a picture the association shared with the press, Harry Lu, Jinping Chen and other leaders of the organization sat in front of a desk with a banner hanging on the wall that said, “Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station.” >To coincide with the time zone in China, the office operated at 9:30 p.m. every Thursday from February to September 2022, helping more than 120 Chinese immigrants renew their driver’s licenses, Jimmy Lu said. Federal prosecutors say the police station was closed in the fall of 2022 after those operating it became aware of the FBI’s investigation. I also absolutely love that part, the super duper secret police station is so secret that they *checks notes* gave the media a photo of them in front of a sign that says "Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station".
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It begins. "Ackshualy that's not a swastica, you see back in Asia they have these symbols..." :maybe-later-honey:
Pretty cool article. ::: spoiler about autonomy Autonomy at Scale Autonomous teams are a long-established management concept, although the term is usually applied to small work units, such as self-managed teams in factories. *What Chinese companies have done is to scale team autonomy up to groups of as many as several dozen people, notably at the customer-facing end.* The freedom of such teams resonates in China, where autonomy confers status; as the Chinese saying goes, “It’s better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix.” At the e-commerce company Handu Group, the core brand HStyle uses a system of teams to create an internal entrepreneurship model, similar to the one Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini describe in “The End of Bureaucracy” (HBR, November–December 2018). *Product teams are responsible for designing, producing, and selling their products. Each team has a minimum of three members: a designer in charge of product development; a web-page specialist responsible for online portal design, display, and sales; and a product management specialist in charge of sourcing, production, inventory, and logistics.* If the product or line gets popular, the team size can grow to as many as a couple dozen people. *Although HStyle started with a single product and brand, its teams have created dozens of new offerings.* That success has enabled HStyle’s upstream and downstream partners to transform themselves into customized producers. These external partners are independent of Handu Group and complement its factories. *HStyle sets task indicators (sales, gross profit, and inventory turnover) for each team annually. The team controls product development, new product launches, discounts, and promotions. It can continually adjust the products to improve the consumer’s experience.* The company ranks team performance every day, and teams’ results are accessible to everyone in real time, putting each team under pressure to deliver. The data and thus the rankings change very quickly. The daily rankings are at the core of HStyle’s internal competition model. If a team splits up and some members form a new team, the leader of the new team must pay a fee to the original team for its previous training of the acquired staff. Moreover, the company’s financial system automatically transfers 10% of an acquired staffer’s bonus to the original team leader every month for one year. This system encourages each team to reorganize and generate new autonomous teams. Since 2005, the appliance giant Haier has been creating autonomous teams around the rendanheyi (“people, needs, connections”) model, in which each employee creates value directly for the user. *In this model, which aims to support every employee’s entrepreneurial dreams, employees take P&L responsibility, create value for themselves, and cultivate lifelong Haier customers.* In 2010 frontline employees were grouped into small, self-managing teams, known as zi zhu jing ying ti (ZZJYTs), which worked directly in the market to address customers’ existing needs as well as to anticipate and fulfill their future needs. *In this operational model, each ZZJYT was responsible for its own P&L and members received a share of the profits created by the team.* ZZJYTs were connected through a technology platform to the people managing resources at the back end. And people at both the front and back ends built communities of interest that worked together to make sure customer needs were met quickly and effectively, which led to profit growth. Haier built on this foundation and allowed these communities to incorporate as microenterprises with rights to make decisions, hire talent, and distribute compensation. These entrepreneurial teams could also enlist the help of suppliers, other microenterprises, and other partners from within or outside the Haier group as they saw fit. More recently, Haier has adapted to its evolving market by developing a new organizational format: ecosystem microcommunities (EMs). An EM is a community of microenterprises that exists to address specific sets of user needs. Haier uses contracts to determine the rights and responsibilities of different microenterprises and stakeholders. For example, in 2019 the refrigerator sales microenterprise in Zhengzhou formed an EM with the refrigerator manufacturing microenterprise in Hefei. The two microenterprises agreed on a goal: provide high-quality products delivered on time—the “zero-defect and zero-delay” product. *An incentive mechanism was established: If they achieved this goal and saw a profit increase of 20%, the joint unit would be rewarded with a value share of 140,000 RMB; and with a 30% increase, it would be rewarded 230,000 RMB. The two microenterprises achieved the 30% goal.* ::: TL;DR some Chinese companies adopted a large independent team model which these teams have almost total freedom to design, market and sell products. Some of the companies even make it so these teams get a direct share of the profits. I can see both sides of an argument here. On one side I'm sure many people would prefer to just have a regular job and a well paying salary and not have to worry about the next product and sales metrics etc. Maybe its a result of alienation but nevertheless its not something many(most?) would enjoy. On the other hand if you have a more direct connection to your work, you actualy design and are responsible for selling your shit. You are part of a smaller team you get to know and make personal connections instead of just being part of the giant faceless corporation. Maybe that gives some more meaning to your work, certainly would be more motivated if you have a bigger share of the value you create. At the very least it is a distinct difference from the individualist mindset we have in the west. The other half of the article is a critique on western management with one basic premise, western managers are too scared to give up control so this style of management would be embarrassing and unthinkable for them. Funny how situations seemingly unrelated to Marxism ends up reinforcing it, the writers probably don't realize but gee I wonder why the PMC doesn't want to give up control.
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>The researchers also asked the participants to rate how often they noticed ten different problems in the online forums. Visitors to NoFap forums reported seeing content that was often trolling (88%), misogynistic (73.7%), bullying (49.1%), anti-LGBT (42.9%), or anti-Semitic (32.0%). Additionally, a significant number of participants reported being told to harm or kill themselves (23.5%), witnessing threats to hurt others (21.1%), and witnessing doxing of others (17.1%) on the forums.
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I have good word from :quark:, it just wasn't making the bean counters happy enough anymore. Is... is this the light at the end? Picard *and* Discovery ending? :sicko-wholesome: