Huawei's Ascend AI processors are actually quite good. They were arguably world leading before the sanctions. There are lots of others but so far they are a big mediocre group without real standouts.
RuthlessCriticism
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Yeah, I absolutely agree that workers should take everything they can.
Those royalties were at rates controlled by the government and as I understand it were fairly limited. No doubt there were significant shortcomings in the USSR though, this among them. Sort of in line with the general problem of different wage rates. I believe the highest paid workers had wages about 5 times those of the lowest paid. As the Soviet Union decayed more liberalism entered its copyright system, the rate controls were lifted by Gorbachev and even before that copyright was made more restrictive with respect to translations and foreign work.
I'm not sure what you mean by labor is recycled for profit. I see no difference between a worker paving a road that people drive over for 20 years and an actor making a movie which is rerun for 20 years. In Marx's terminology there is living labor and dead labor. Living labor is the work done by workers. Dead labor is the product of work done in the past by workers, for example a sowing machine. Capital is dead labor. The actor makes the movie performing living labor and should be compensated for it. Then there exists the movie itself a form of dead labor and they should no longer be compensated for it (under socialism).
fair compensation under capitalism
Does not exist.
Under socialism people will be compensated for the amount of work they do, indeed we should probably replace money with labor vouchers, but that is another topic. This is the abolition of the extraction of surplus value, no one gets unearned income (note that support for the old, young, and disabled would still exist, subject to democratic consent). For an actor to be paid residuals (under socialism) they must necessarily be taken (unjustly) from another worker, or more precisely the whole mass of the working class which do not have the privileged of getting such payments.
China today is of course a different question since they have a market economy. I don't know about Cuba but I would be surprised if they had a significantly different system from the USSR.
Residuals are not fair compensation for labor because they are not proportionate to work done. Also media would of course be freely available, as was the case in the Soviet Union. There was a charge but only to cover distribution not for intellectual property.
To elaborate, there is no reason one actor should get paid 10 times as much as another because she happened to work on a popular production. I'm not opposed to some small bonus paid to the workers on 'successful' movies but it shouldn't be more than nice-to-have.
Also, only socialists are reading this anyways so I doubt that I am doing any damage to the strike.
Residuals would not exist under socialism. I have nothing against any labor action and if actors and writers can extract concessions then good for them, but I feel like it should be said.
We had battles against them
This is a good example of the problem. This is a ludicrous way to talk about a genocide. Yes there were battles, but that was a tiny part of the history and most of those battles were just massacres anyways. Should we talk about the Holocaust in these terms? I'm sure some Jewish person managed to kill a Nazi between 1933 and 1945. Should we discuss the battles between Jews and Nazis?
There can be a revolution in Taiwan.
Don’t bother replying. I don’t want waste my time talking to people who can’t answer a simple question
That is just wildly incorrect. Fascism does not make the promise to put free markets under state control, more importantly, none of the fascist societies put free markets under state control.
Really? Nothing else?