YouTube out of Google hands would be great. Used to be a place where you could post whatever you wanted in terms of videos, and now if you don’t follow mainstream bullshit you get fucked up your ass with a red hot poker.

But you'd still have to worry about the advertisers.

Fuck you’re right

Fuck advertisements. They’re a virus to my internet experience.

We have to remember that wages and quality of licing =/= GDP

im not saying anything in those graphs is wrong but as a rule of thumb

that's ultimately what it boils down to though @High King of the North, Eisbär

it's about the adverts and google's primary role is about improving the value and saleability of those assets

replacing Google would do nothing to change that unless the organisation went an even more controversial route such as subscription locks on all the content

@Bogatyr Bogumir true but it’s a fair measure

@sɪᴅɪsɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀᴇ The wage growth was being weighed against the US dollar

it was taking inflation into account

@The Big Oof yeah

with inflation

real wages

it was inflation high as 30% and higher

real wages fell

@sɪᴅɪsɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀᴇ No, they only fell at the end of his first term and rose again during his second

in real terms

@The Big Oof in real terms they fell throughout due to the high inflation

What I've seen shows that real wages rose, then fell, then rose again

Doesn't look like that to me

inflation was too big

thats one of the reasons he was overthrown

He was still popular, he came back from exile after being overthrown and served a third term.

I'm not saying that is what makes him good, I'm using it as a counterpoint to the idea of, a ruler being overthrown instantly means that ruler was bad or even unpopular.

Inflation was certainly there, I'm not denying that. I'm saying it was negated by the wage growth.

The majority of Russians opposed the Bolsheviks, but they didn't go anywhere, for example

Didn't he die?

instantly

Dude I don't think wages negated the rise of inflation over 30%

probably didn't rise even 6% or so

No

I mean they increased by 30% in real terms, from what I remember reading

against the US dollar

No

he survived

and fled to Spain

this was in the 50s

he came back

in the 70s

and served part of another term, and died in the middle of it

30% in real terms