The richest country in the world cannot save their own citizens from poverty. Not to mention most number of millionaires and billionaires. Obviously the solution is to impose tariffs based on some made up numbers. Wonderful idea!
This is exactly what I was thinking. Is not the US export far higher than import if they take into account the software and other IT services they sell?
I would expect other countires to tarrif that.
That would work of we had viable alternatives (on par with the US offers or as an easy migration). But we don’t really, so if the EU also adds tariffs than we’ll have the same issues the US is going to have. Meaning higher prices for the same offer since we’ll have no other choice but to stick with the US IT offer.
Like other comments said, this could work only if this was long term and everybody bites the bullet until they have a good local alternative to foreign offers with high tariffs. And the chances of having a lower offer as the one you were importing are really high. So, everybody is betting on short term.
Higher Prices? What is the "Price" of Instagram and Google Maps? But on the other hand, how would you put tariffs on these?
The good thing is: If the EU finds a way to tax the money flowing from advertisers to big tech, consumers would not be affected (at least not financially), because they are not the ones paying the price.
Yes. So advertising gets more expensive when targeting EU users. The users don't care, so there wouldn't be much public backlash. And the advertisers will either cut back / relocate their ad spendings or raise their marketing budget.
Software is easily pirated. It is official policy in Russia now to pirate the software used by enterprises (like SAP, Autocad etc), to own the western libs.
Does the SDK allow executing Python code generated in some sort of sandbox? If not are there any open source library which does this for us?
I would ideally like the state of the code executed, including return values, available for the entire chat session, like IPython, so that subsequent LLM generated code can use them.
> Profits from tech companies seem to be accruing to the elites.
Is this not the problem that needs to be addressed.
Looks like the rich and media have successfully made a scapegoat out of immigrants when the actual problem is the money accuring to the elites and government inefficieny in improving housing supply.
Immigration exacerbates that problem structurally, by introducing a large population of foreigners who have less social capital and political leverage than native born people. More power to elites seems like a natural consequence of immigration.
How? The locals still have the same voting power. The locals just don't care if the money goes to the elites because it perfectly aligns with their politics and worldview (capitalism, etc).
Voting power only helps you (maybe) fix a problem after it’s arisen. But flooding the workforce with immigrant labor creates the problem in the first place by reducing the negotiating leverage of native born workers.
Even in terms of voting power—immigration reduces social solidarity and undermines the economic left in the long run.
