香港,中国

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Cake day: March 13th, 2022

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  • It just so happens that under Russian rule, Russian rulers will be making profit instead of Ukrainian rulers.

    I think we’re missing a couple of nuances here, no? Although it’s a stretch to call them nuance. The way Ukrainian rulers have been making money has been through privatization. And because there’s so much privatization we need to look at who owns Ukraine’s economy. It’s only escalated since Russia invaded, with national assets being sold off to foreign private sectors so cheaply that one has to wonder why they did it when the gains are a drop in the bucket compared to the direct aid they’ve been getting from Western public sectors.

    If Ukraine emerges from this conflict with its own sovereignty, it’ll be sovereignty over a flag, a presidential palace and a state framework that protects foreign companies’ investments from hungry Ukrainians.

















  • The new update (which allows foreign investment and overhauls the way private/state ownership is modeled) makes a lot of older video guides confusing.

    I think the best way of learning things is by breaking things. And it’s fun.

    Build buildings that use input goods that are expensive on your market, and see what happens. Spam build new logging industry even when lumber is already cheap. Attempt to pass laws where the game warns you that you’ll radicalize certain interest groups. Fuck around and find out.

    At any point if you feel you’ve sufficiently fucked up, open the game menu and choose to change countries, and proceed to fuck up a different great power.

    You can genuinely learn the game mechanics this way. No training wheels, just crash lots.