It's Amazon, I'm pretty sure they know who to pay for any book they want. They are all already on their platform, with payment information too. They don't even have to ask the author where to send the money, they already know. They could do it whenever they want, they have the funds to do it, billions of dollars laying around.
They've just decided they'd rather have it for free and keep the money.
But don't you dare think you could do the same, you should pay for copyrighted work, and you should buy it on one of Amazon's services that sell you access to say copyrighted work. Fucking peasant...
Btw the lack of American affordable healthcare is by design, not due to budgetary constraints. The US military budget is actually not completely unreasonable in comparison to GDP, being 3% and including social security for veterans.
In comparison Russia is now spending 6-7% of GDP on the military, possibly more since the Russian economy is shrinking. China is around 2%, and the world average is around 2% still. The US has a massive economy, so their 3% dwarfs all other countries.
As for healthcare, the US government is already spending twice as much per person as other western countries. If the US government wanted affordable healthcare, they could make it happen yesterday, all while reducing healthcare expenditure. The problem is just a political one, not an economic one.
Working on it doesn't mean they have something even remotely functional.
Btw, shouldn't they be working on 5nm before 3nm? I'm also not sure how many 7nm chips they can produce. Have they made anything other than that one chip for Huawei? Has that been sold anywhere in the world other than China? Is that phone common in China?
I think he meant that it was necessary when going from a capitalist society to a communist society. China went from a rural society to a communist society to a capitalist society.
To be honest, nothing against that, it's obvious to me that communism as applied by the USSR or Mao or the Kims does not really work and the people really suffered for that, but if you do believe in the communist tenants, then China and Russia are as far away from that as you can possibly get.
I think those two things are not the same and quite incompatible. Modern China is a capitalist hellscape, certainly not the communist utopia Marx had in mind. They have one of the highest levels of wealth disparity in the world and the highest number of billionaires, even more than the US.
I fully believe that Marx would be horrified if he saw modern China.
I think it's a consequence of higher interest rates drying up VC money, meaning that tech companies now have to actually be profitable, rather than just grow.
If the plan was grow now, profit later, then later has come
Not all christians recognize the Pope. It's like asking why the patriarch of Constantinople or the patriarch of Moscow didn't comment on the news.