Jakarta is seeking to boost investment from foreign tech companies with restrictive measures that require their phones to be 40 per cent sourced from parts in Indonesia.
Absolutely ridiculous policy. Imagine if every country pulled this stunt.
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Jakarta is seeking to boost investment from foreign tech companies with restrictive measures that require their phones to be 40 per cent sourced from parts in Indonesia.
Absolutely ridiculous policy. Imagine if every country pulled this stunt.
It sure would be nice if folks on the left stopped using the term “neoliberal” as shorthand for “something I don’t like”. Words have meanings. A neoliberal housing policy would be a bunch of 5-over-1 in mixed zoning. The housing crisis is caused by many factors:
Same. I wouldn’t put this past Hamas at all, but I’m going to need another source.
I don’t know how price sensitive you are, but check out Asket.
Who are these articles for? All those MAGAs who feel strongly about climate change, or Dems who would have voted for Trump if he’s commit to GHG reduction?
For background, I work in the construction industry. You’re right that most of the cost increase isn’t because of the bill of materials, but that has never been the biggest cost in homebuilding (or at least not for the last 100 years). It used to be perfectly doable to build a multi-unit for $150k per door, and now it’s difficult to keep it under $300k (note that this is in a midsize city, those costs are obviously much higher in a larger one due to far higher cost of land). By far the bulk of that increase is labour and subcontractor costs. I leave it to you to do the math on the rent required to turn a profit on a $300k apartment.
Construction costs are like 5% of the total value of a home.
Maybe in Manhattan, but otherwise this is an absolutely pants-on-head ridiculous claim.
I’m not surprised the Corsair is better - it looks like there’s a whole nvme drive in there.
I’m sitting this election out because Vogel gave up his pacifism during the Great War! Both sides are the same. I’m very smart.
If that’s the case, can you explain to the rest of us why landlords want high construction prices?
Landlords are definitely not the reason that new construction is so much more expensive. They want the lowest possible construction cost, not the highest.
I urge you to revisit this take, because it seems based only on a cartoonish vision that exists in your head. Let’s take seniors for example, who live on a fixed income and are often the most vulnerable to rent increases. How does anything that you said address the very real problems they are facing?
I’m not defending landlords here — just pointing out that housing is expensive right now regardless of who owns it. Construction costs are through the roof (no pun intended) even before factoring in a profit margin for the builder and/or the landlord. If I had to rebuild my house today it would cost at least 3x what I paid for it 15 years ago, and my income hasn’t tripled since then.
To be fair, if you were to buy or build a house it won’t cost you any less.
Interesting that they are/were both black. Is there a genetic component?
What’s that number in words?
Per the article, it’s 20 decillion.
I don’t know enough about New Brunswick politics to be certain if the cruel and needless anti-trans policies Higgs imported from the Benighted States of America are the reason he’s finished as premier of that beautiful Maritime province and even as MLA for the riding of Quispamsis.
In large part, yes. It even triggered a near-coup in his party last year. The Sask Party also barely eked out a win this week, which is hardly an endorsement of this brand of nonsense.
Then again, it’s Alberta we’re talking about. They’ve always had the most right-wing dirtbags ruining it for the rest of the country.
Last time someone did that it triggered a conflict between Serbia and Albania!
Exactly, especially to placate a country with no electronics manufacturing industry to speak of. How would Apple even meet that 40% target, and how is that number defined? Is it by % of material cost, or size, or weight, or what?
Blackmail is a terrible way to attract investment to your country. This is like Elon suing advertisers who left Twitter after he told them to fuck off.