It's 8% raise every year.
1.615^(1/6) ~ 1.083
More like 75 years ago.
What is it with westerners and assuming they know more about Japan than actual Japanese people?
You can replace Japan with any non-Western country: China, Russia, Ukraine, India, Palestine.
They understand that to do imperialism efficiently you actually need domestic industry or other countries would just say to fuck off, but tariffs and subsidies are the only tools they have that don't significantly undermine internal power of the capitalist class.
The most idiotic thing about this is that English pronunciation of both Kiev and Kyiv is equally far from both Russian and Ukrainian pronunciation.
Technically true, they both are nearly useless.
USA already has it, it is called Credit Score.
Or they covertly financed its creation.
Or both.
Our project uses waterfall disguised as agile.
Spain may be the western country that’s done the most historic evil
It would be UK, actually, with US second. France and Spain are tied for the third place.
No, they are Pentagon mouthpieces, and IDF is just another cancerous growth of the American war machine.
I'm reading tomes of eldritch lore to comprehend those horrors.
Marxism-Lovecraftism
Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun.
Bet it already is.
Capitalism rewards short-term thinking, so dumb ghouls who ignore long-term consequences of their actions outcompete smart ghouls who try to ensure that they stay in power longer.
Democracy is when Democrats are in charge.
Eastern Europe and Latin America are both exploited for resources, cheap immigrant labour (and cheap labour in these countries too sometimes), while being patronized for being 'less democratic', and at the same time the West strangles any liberation movements there and promotes the most reactionary forces available. In fact, this economic and political relationships lead to them being pretty similar in socio-political structure.
The difference is that Eastern Europe is much more gusanoified since 1990s.