I always have a little story to tell people when they come to me asking for economic advice, specifically starting a business (which happens pretty frequently because somehow I know what I am talking about, for reasons that I do not disclose to them).
I have a friend who works for a high level accounting firm. Not the Big Four, as they just use and abuse people, but one of the ten biggest firms in the world. Their clients, for the most part, are the private finances of multi-millionaires and billionaires. Now, being one of their star employees, my friend has had access to all kinds of fun records and accounts, though due to professional discretion he will never actually share the names of these individuals with me, which I understand.
Most of these individuals have fail-sons and daughters that are also 'independent business-owners' that the firm also does the finances for as a favor to the large clients. These are people who run businesses at losses of over a hundred thousand dollars a year, essentially indefinitely, always promising that next year they will turn a profit, often of course they are unknowingly actually loss leaders to reduce the taxes for their parents, as their parents continue to funnel money into those 'ventures'.These range from restaurants to clothing stores to gyms etc, all occupying prime real estate in major cities.
If you've ever seen like a Gucci store in a metropolitan area that never seems to have any customers but still is in business, it is those kinds of businesses.
If you are starting a business from scratch, that is what you have to compete against. And not only that, but these people have teams of lawyers, so if you somehow do manage to be successful, if your product even somewhat resembles theirs but executed completely, they will sue you to the ground. They don't even have to win, they just have to stall until you run out of money and credit.
It's a rigged game, but sometimes you can hit a jackpot I guess.
This is Iraq but as farce. They will never actually invest that much money, the US is already an oil producing country, who would we sell to? China? This whole thing is incredibly short-sighted. Real empire in decline things, almost smacks of internal political intrigue to destabilize Trump more than anything else.
We will see how things progress, but there are a lot of theories floating around they are plausible, none of which are that this was a well thought out and good idea.
It doesn't indicate that they are working with them. All it indicates that they want to work with them. Time and historical investigation will tell if they did sell out Maduro and Chavismo, or what the actual events that occured are.
You are jumping to conclusions based on very little, and mostly speculative, evidence. This is not materialist analysis, but quite literally reactionary thinking, comrade. There is nothing to freak out over, what is done is done.
It's really fun to have to try to separate people's actual expertise and good advice from their dogshit and racist opinions in everyday life. And people think it is weird why I want to know how they know things.
Yeah, I have been thinking about it and, even if they do pull this whole thing off, the complete take over of Venezuela, is it actually going to be worth it? I mean, this economy runs on such short term gambles, but the oil industry, especially the Venezuelan oil industry, would require years to restablish and actually create profitability. I mean, the five finger discount doesn't really count if you spent 2 billion dollars on stealing it.
The entire upper echelon of the existing Ukrainian government is in the pocket of the U.S. grift, making millions of dollars off of their connection to it. Not only that, but in the event that they did say 'Nah' the Azov Nazis that control their military would immediatly execute them, as they did to civilian officials who negotiated with incoming Russian forces when they left.
Ukrainian morale is already incredibly low, with desertion rates being at an all time high. Zelensky won't even hold another election because there is a significant chance that he wouldn't just lose, but get blown out in a landslide. Zelensky is a television comedian, a fucking joke. His job is to go and beg Europe and the U.S for more money and weapons. If he dies, they'll send another bum to go do it.
I'm not. People like the Bolivarian Revolution, but they don't really like Maduro all that much, as he has been the country's whipping boy for years now.
Now, I may be completely mistaken and this is just the prelude to a ground invasion or military coup, but I can see the benefit of the creation of a clean break from the Maduro government into an even more radical left wing turn. Maduro, at this point, may serve the state better as a martyr and example of U.S. aggression more than actually as a head of state.
Honestly from my understanding, Maduro did very little actual governing, mostly sticking to public addresses.
I can see that. It's yet another instance of people running the system not actually understanding what the system they run actually is, due to their overwhelming chauvinism and lack of respect for the abilities of people.
I mean, it's in incredibly ironic because if the libertarian right had any power at all in either of those admins, they would have told them this would happen lol.
Yeah sounds like they are quoting from his pre-Engels collaboration era.
Genuinely, I really hate people who only read Marx and don't actually read Engels, when Engels was the one who really was able to hone Marx's extremely keen intellect and voracious appetite for the truth away from just reversing Hegelian causality, and towards more journalistic and economic works. Like, Marx's sudden shifts in thought don't really make sense without Engels.
It's the real use case, and I have been hammering my old teachers and management about not giving into the hype and focusing into learning and teaching it.
I would say that the best place to look is where unsavory elements are. Now, idk what exactly that looks like in Muslim spaces, but my understanding is like a hookah bar or other place where people smoke would be a start. Heck you might even find some luck at like a chess club or other game or sport, basically around people whose sole occupation in life isn't family, work, and religion.
I always have a little story to tell people when they come to me asking for economic advice, specifically starting a business (which happens pretty frequently because somehow I know what I am talking about, for reasons that I do not disclose to them).
I have a friend who works for a high level accounting firm. Not the Big Four, as they just use and abuse people, but one of the ten biggest firms in the world. Their clients, for the most part, are the private finances of multi-millionaires and billionaires. Now, being one of their star employees, my friend has had access to all kinds of fun records and accounts, though due to professional discretion he will never actually share the names of these individuals with me, which I understand.
Most of these individuals have fail-sons and daughters that are also 'independent business-owners' that the firm also does the finances for as a favor to the large clients. These are people who run businesses at losses of over a hundred thousand dollars a year, essentially indefinitely, always promising that next year they will turn a profit, often of course they are unknowingly actually loss leaders to reduce the taxes for their parents, as their parents continue to funnel money into those 'ventures'.These range from restaurants to clothing stores to gyms etc, all occupying prime real estate in major cities.
If you've ever seen like a Gucci store in a metropolitan area that never seems to have any customers but still is in business, it is those kinds of businesses.
If you are starting a business from scratch, that is what you have to compete against. And not only that, but these people have teams of lawyers, so if you somehow do manage to be successful, if your product even somewhat resembles theirs but executed completely, they will sue you to the ground. They don't even have to win, they just have to stall until you run out of money and credit.
It's a rigged game, but sometimes you can hit a jackpot I guess.