Good analysis! Mimicking an accent over years, can lead us to speak as a native/local person. I do not know if I already told you, but I was in Scotla...
Interesting! I wonder if it is possible to get a Glaswegian or scouse accent with a lot of practice and patience, because I see that there are physiol...
My intention wasn't ignore the other families. I am aware that every home has its own problems and we should not put someone's above the other's. Acco...
Interesting. Thanks Jamal for putting me in context. Yes, that's why I wanted to share the video at The Shoutbox: to pay my respects for how this kid ...
Hehe :snicker: Yes, exactly. That was the main point of this thread, trying to understand why some workers decide to go to work, or at least have some...
I think the title of this video blurs the main point. The boy who appears and talks, says a lot of straight things. I like his speech skills. Scottish...
I think your argument is pretty state/government dependent. You are trying to give as granted that we cannot live without state intervention, despite ...
As well as here in Spain then. :roll: It is not necessary to go to Africa to see chaotic nations. We have a tumultuous public administration too. We a...
Because ignoring someone is a very disrespectful act. I read all the posts from NOS and I find them interesting, whether I end up answering them or no...
And that's how a coercive mobster works, folks! By the way, I think @"Vera Mont" is a leader of a Canadian writers trade union, and that's why she is ...
Two important examples: Strike of October 1972 (Chile) Jimmy Hoffa Well, it is interesting to see that mafia trade unions share the same industry/comm...
Hello Alkis! As it is, and I totally back up your argument. I didn't think of that, but you are right. The co-workers are just colleagues in an indust...
Exactly, NOS. There are a lot of evidences which prove that trade unions act as a mafia group. Paradoxically, they can be even more oppressive than th...
I agree, and your post explains very clearly what I - somehow - tried to tell in the OP. Although I do not pretend to delegitimize the role of trade u...
I didn't know a dilemma needed to be that realistic... I guess that if you put a lot of information, the debate we are currently having can decay. Tha...
Thank you, ssu. I think you are the only who actually understood what I proposed on this dilemma. Maybe, it is a matter of culture and circumstances. ...
Good point, Molliere and thanks for providing your arguments. I am seeing the dilemma in a different perspective now. Despite I didn't consider the fa...
Avoid the closure of the colliery. Thus, they would keep their jobs. I do not consider it as "option" but a duty. The worker of this example is alread...
Understood. But my aim of publishing this post was not finding a solution, but to see what people think towards individualism. To be honest, in the sp...
I do not understand why you don't see this as realistic. I can share your arguments on the fact that we can always add something to that renders the i...
Hello Justin. I understand your point, but I disagree with the fact of only caring about the devastated consequences on the enterprise and not the fam...
I fully agree with your argument seeing the individualistic point of view. Nonetheless, I think it is important to consider that going to strike is no...
She can work, but she is unemployed. She was kicked off from her job due to the bankruptcy of the enterprise. Excellent question and that happens in r...
True. But keep in mind that the worker of the example has problems in his family: the wife is already unemployed, one kid is sick and the other goes t...
I agree. Furthermore, your good points BC, my intention in this OP was to highlight the personal/familiar context, which tend to be sensitive. One wor...
Pretence means: an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true. My intention was not to "pretend", and believe it or not, the case I us...
My point was to know if "individual" choices in edge circumstances are or not plausible. I think this is a good example, because the worker is not nec...
By the way, today is Kurosawa's 25th anniversary of his death. It is totally a destiny coincidence that we are talking about him today. By the spring ...
Exactly. I couldn't have said it better. I personally think that everything about Kurosawa was ahead of his time: screen, aesthetics, photographs, sce...
Didn't you read the arguments provided at least? :roll: The exchange between ssu and NOS is interesting, and we can learn a lot. On the other hand, ke...
Yes, it's as it is. The unemployment subsidies are taxed here as "Income taxes". It is one of the main paradoxes and stupidities that I hardly can und...
I agree, here in Spain it happens exactly as you explained. It is like a vicious circle. I'm not sure if this is the case in your country as well: Whe...
I think the we all should take care more about ourselves. The State is not our parents, and despite that maybe such functionality is only available in...
I think we should differentiate on Jesus who comes from the Gospel and Jesus of Nazareth. The role of Jesus and Christianity itself in the Bible is a ...
Interesting points. Note that I didn't deny the existence and validity of taxation. It is obvious that our nations/governments need to collect to prov...
I agree. I understand that this debate is far from the legal frames. In the EU, it is completely allowed to change and move the HQ to any country of t...
I watched a film of master Akira Kurosawa this afternoon. After watching it, I suddenly reminded of an excellent footage where Kurosawa talks about th...
I think it is all about perspective. Here in Europe we consider Biden as a conservative, but more moderate than the average Republican candidate. Hone...
Neither we. But it is important that you also point out that Chinese society doesn't see Biden that way because some media and Trump supporters consid...
I apologise. I mixed up Schengen Treaty and Euro-zone with the European Union. There are many organisms that I tend to confuse which countries are par...
I agree, but I put Romania and Moldova as examples because they want to be part of the European Union and one of the main characteristics of this comm...
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