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Not taking in consideration that you used that as hypothetical example that is not meant to be realistic comparison. It not skills of Chemical Engineer that are valuable but their knowledge. If you measure only value of skills then expert ornamental basket weaver wins chemical engineer every day . I think it would be better to make bit more every day choices that people picking their careers face, like for example comparing careers and salaries of Chemical Engineers and Registered Nurses, as both have high demand on job market and both careers demand high level knowledge and skill, but later one pays less and have less benefits but costs for the degree is about same (which may most likely be reason why quite lot hospitals and clinics are facing issues to find enough qualified nurses).

I don't understand these big questions how presidential candidates plan to pay their plans to redistribute wealth in USA. As that should be quite plainly obvious, if candidates have any actual will to enact their promises. They will either tax people and share those taxes to people according to their plan and then they tax people again and again they will share those taxes to people according to their plan. Or use more popular option and take more debt which has been quite popular quite long time, because it illusion that government don't use people's money. Both options will kill economy if overdone. Although it is much easier to lower taxes and than pay back debt that you can't afford.

Those, plus India's actions in Kashmir, https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/INDIA935.PDF https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/sca/154480.htm https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/For-the-first-time-securitymen-kill-more-civilians-than-terrorists-in-JK/articleshow/6508298.cms?referral=PM https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/INDIA-2018.pdf https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/01/17/india-failing-kashmiri-human-rights And how nice India's current prime minister has been in past https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/modi-us-relations-on-track-but-frosty/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/06/from-pariah-to-capitol-hill-narendra-modis-extraordinary-rise/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/aatish-taseer-modi-oci-time-magazine-article-father-pakistan-india-a9194771.html And India's nice informal justice system that is still in power in many parts https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/24/india-village-gang-rape-violence-poverty-illiteracy-west-bengal And other things

So cost of personal freedoms and deaths of millions is good in India, but bad in China?

1. That don't seem to work very well. Like for example USA's unemployment rate is much lower than Finland's and there are more fast food restaurants per capita but median salary of Finnish fast food worker is almost 30% higher than in USA. 2. Then on IT sector Finland has more software engineer positions per capita than USA and almost every company is need of competent programmers and yet programmers median salary is almost 10% higher Main contributing reason for 1. point is Finland's higher social benefits, which forces companies pay higher salaries for unskilled labor. Main contributing factor for second is cost of living in cities that held most of the software engineers, which leads software engineers asks lower salaries. As government also can use those taxes regulations to they collect and impose to skew economy in different directions, like paying "high" welfare in order to prevent people needing to work jobs that don't pay living wages and cutting cost of living by regulating cost of apartments, supporting people buying their own homes, with tax breaks and partial loan securities. Using those taxes to keep cost of education and health care low even for people in high end of middle class.

Soviet Union had 100% employment rate, its economy was also "booming" until it collapsed (meaning Soviet Union)

Is economy booming when budget runs trillion dollars in deficit per year. You can buy lots of things with loaned money, but that doesn't mean that you are economically speaking in good place.

Greta is brilliant business woman, at age 16 she is world famous millionaire just by telling that people should read IPCC's reports and studies.

It is good that you applaud for USSR invading it neighbouring countries without provocation and killing hundreds of thousands people. It is just so sad that USSR had to invade for example Finland in order to ensure that their initial bad hand don't cause them too much problems

I find it bit funny how much more people bring up how Hunter Biden got high paying job in private company, without any other clear merit but, his father being vice president of US, considering current president's daughter and son of law work as high paying advisers in White House without any merit that show that they are qualified to work in such position.

Like South Korea and Japan aren't North Korea's neighbors

Second there is confirmation they're close it is too late. We need only to look cases of North Korea, Pakistan and India to see how fast the final mile in nuclear weapon development is. It is why there has been efforts to stop Iran's uranium enrichment programs. But currently Iran is enriching uranium faster than never before. Current prediction is that they will have nuclear weapons in 2021 if they want them. So now is time to invade if you want to stop their nuclear weapon program.

Accidental downing of flight 752 reminded all sides of consequences of cold war where one side has already is backed to corner and paranoia and they still own air defence which range covers big sunk of Middle East. Meaning that Iran that constantly fears attacks from USA will shot more passenger planes all around Middle East regardless do they intend to do so or not. Also this situation gives Iran opportunity to continue their nuclear program with speed that they have in past avoided in fear of consequences, now they already face those consequences regardless. So as Trump strated his fight with Iran because of he hated Obama's nuclear deal, current situation in that light is lose for Trump and efforts to prevent Iran develop nuclear weapons. So overall it has been lose for everyone, except for those who want to see nuclear apocalypse.

He was head of Iran's secret service / CIA / military intelligence who only answered Iran's supreme leader. So he was one of the Iranians who actually had power to negotiate any sort cease fires and other forms of de-escalation.

According to Iraq's prime minister Suleimani was in Iraq because he was delivering Iran's response to Saudi Arabia as part of mediation efforts by Iraq. And Iraq started mediation in direct request from Donald Trump. So it seems that USA orchestrated trap for Suleimani in disguise of peace/de-escalation talks. I am sure that this will make peace talks in Middle East so much easier, especially if USA is involved

Way they quote Regan, sounds more like people quoting biblical saint, than a president, which probably explains lot about american evangelicals view of the world.

The Party of Wales in English . Welsh looks and sounds like a pseudo fantasy language.

I think that German party split looks typical for European parliament like for example Finnish Parliament Swedish Parliament Danish Parliament Norwegian Parliament Icelandic Parliament Estonian Parliament Dutch Parliament

It is considered weak because it is based on testimony of witness who has started to lose key details after 9 years. So by hiding for 9 years from accusations against him, Assange most likely succeed to guarantee his extradition to US and will even more likely get sent to prison for several years. Where in case that he would had just went to face accusations in Sweden, he would even case that he would had found guilty only faced probation and had been much better protected against extradition to US.

In Finland, Sweden and Norway government owns quite lot of the means of production and have centralish planning economy Greed also drives you to want what someone else has, because greedy enough people want to own what other owns. And envy also can drive people try to make better of themselves so that they can feel that they are better than people around them. You could say that capitalism is "I first then others" and socialism is "community first then me". So I would say that "I want them to have less" is quite misleading when it comes to socialism, because it also is based to idea that people should have more, difference is more in who should be primary gainer of the wealth in the system. But as we know either of these ideologies don't matter when this is the reality https://www.sciencealert.com/a-handful-of-super-corporations-controls-the-fate-of-the-world-scientists-warn

Money spent on mass transit is money spend on infrastructure for cars. As roads already exists and are needed for logistical reasons as currently there is no other as effective way to pickup and deliver goods and raw materials for first mile and last mile cases. And our economies depend on that movement of goods and raw materials, which also means that there is constant economical need to invest in said infrastructure for cars, which is expensive and demands lots of land and space. Which is where mass transit comes in to help as it helps to lessen number of economically ineffective vehicles in transit, which frees roads for more important transit of goods and raw materials and same time it gives new opportunities for transiting goods and raw materials in non-first and last mile cases. So in short, by investing in mass transit country gets more from its existing infrastructure and leaves more room to build more goods and raw material production facilities (and possible more housing but that is usually after thought)

That is bit questionable, considering that allied didn't actually bomb strategic bridges, factories, or even military base just outside of Dresden, instead allies focused on bombing most heavily populated parts of the city. Also reasoning that Dresden was bombed in order to save US/British soldiers is bit weak as it locates in eastern Germany near current German-Poland border and US and British never had any plans to go there with their ground forces as Soviet Union's forces where already approaching the city and city was full of refugees that had fled Soviet's forces. Something about questionable nature of bombing of Dresden says this UK's national archive's piece In February 1945, the last year of World War 2, Britain sent 300 Lancaster bombers to attack the crowded German city of Dresden. This attack was not the precision bombing of specific military targets. It was deliberate bombing of a whole area. The bombs destroyed city buildings and started tremendous fires. Before long, eleven square miles of Dresden were consumed by a firestorm. The vacuum caused by the rapid rise of hot air created tornadoes that tossed furniture, trees and debris into the air. People were caught in fires as hot as 1000 °C. The city was devastated. No one knows how many thousands died. The German armies were in retreat at this time and the war was nearly over. Some historians have argued that this attack was not justifiable on military grounds, that it was nothing more than a slaughter of civilians. But others say it helped to shorten the war in Europe. Ultimate responsibility for this attack lay with the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Was the bombing of Dresden a justifiable act during wartime? How closely was Winston Churchill involved in the decision to attack the city? Does this cast a shadow upon Churchill's reputation as the heroic icon of twentieth century British history? https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/heroesvillains/g1/

I would argue that bombing civilians after winning the war didn't save any lives, it was done in order to force Germany and Japan to surrender without conditions. You know that USA, UK, France, Soviet Union and etc countries found that it was Finland fault that Soviets invaded it and Finland had to pay massive war reparations for Soviet Union, give up quite large areas of land to Soviet Union, including one of Finland's oldest cities. Also Finland war time president was convicted for crimes against Soviet Union and put to prison. But anyway purposefully bombing civilian targets in order to cause terror is considered to be a war crime although in reality it is always overlooked by tribunals.

So in other words "Because Japanese were bad people." My grandparents served in WWII, during time when Soviet air forces fire bombed Finland's cities freely and then they lived the time when Finland had to pay Soviet Union compensation of cost of those bombs that destroyed cities where they lived. So I have some knowledge of mindset of people who lived in that era.