thaibeachlovers

They can demand anything they like- it's their country. Don't like it- you know what to do.

Well said. I have zero sympathy for any farang that wants to live in Thailand in the same style ( or better ) than they could back home for a much larger cost. Want to live only eating the same food as back home, and don't like that it's expensive- boo hoo, go back home then.

Another poster that thinks expats are important to the Thais because we give loadsacash to prostitutes, and if foolish to wives and other men's children. Time to stop dreaming and face reality. If the Thais actually cared, they'd make it easier to stay. It's getting harder and they don't care.

The OP should immediately vacate Thailand, and hide in a cave somewhere for the next 4 years. Preferably somewhere without an internet.

Rather more important things going on that Americans drinking cheap coffee grown by exploited workers. https://reporterbrasil.org.br/2023/11/starbucks-slave-and-child-labour-found-at-certified-coffee-farms-in-minas-gerais/ Starbucks: slave and child labour found at certified coffee farms in Minas Gerais

The US has probably been exploiting the poor in those countries to get cheap coffee. About time you started paying a fair price, but unfortunately the poor people that are exploited won't get any of the benefit. Link in my next post

As if that would happen? That would give the game away. Seems that when it's Trump, truth flies out the window. PS. Deporting gang members is only to be applauded. Never letting them come back even more so.

I seen so many posts about Trump, breathlessly claiming to be the "one" that got Trump, and all turned out to be nonsense. It's been going on since 2015. Nothing new here. Next.

Did that come to you in a dream? You should team up with Geller.

I assume you mean the war in the ME, where doing what Putin is doing is somehow acceptable to the posters complaining about Putin on here.

You shouldn't quote me if you are not going to address what I said and instead go off on something completely different. You guys have been saying for 2 years that Putin has no money, no missiles, no tanks, no men, all proven to be a nonsense, just as your oil price claim is.

Seriously? I'm not going to respond to obvious baiting. If you want to make pointless posts, don't quote me to enable them.

Errrrr. Robotics are closer than you think. Trump's drive to return manufacturing to the US will result in largely automated factories in the US. The technology exists but needs a push to be made reality. Eastern standard of living will not improve, but western standard of living for all but the wealthy will decline to match theirs. IMO.

Nobody will miss Nike, it's pile of 💩 I would never consider wearing. IMO Shiff IS an i-diot who knows nothing. The laptop is real, not made up. Are you admitting you are a lefty?

The current system is IMO corrupt and rotten to the core. It works by moving production to where they can most easily exploit the workers to make more profit. The whole rotten system would eventually collapse anyway, and if it's Trump that starts the collapse, it just happens to be now that it does collapse. Hopefully, after it's over and things return to "normal" they won't be like after 2008 and just carry on with the same old economic criminality, repackaged somewhat.

Wrong- they will do anything that gives them a bigger profit. If returning to the US is more profitable, they will. Big companies are run by people that have zero empathy for the people they exploit.

That picture is going to be wrong shortly. That company will likely relocate the factory to the US, but automated- no need for pesky human workers. As for the people left behind; I don't envy them their life then.

It's going to get worse! They will build factories, by robots, and run them with robots. We've all seen vdo of car factories with robots making the cars- visualise them without ANY humans- that's the future.

In NZ pensions are paid by current taxation, and if it all turns to <deleted> I'm probably screwed.

If it wasn't now, it would be later. Whom did you attack for the fiasco of 2008? That man made disaster will probably be worse than the present shambles. Likely the craven "leaders" of the world will crawl to the W H and smooze the incumbent to be nice to them in exchange for letting them off the tariffs- job done for Trump. ( BTW the person meeting Trump at the moment should give lessons to Zelensky how to suck up to Trump- talk about bending over and talking out of his <deleted>. I like a drain.

My response is to wonder how the countries of the planet were convinced to buy into a corrupt economic system that only benefits the wealthiest members of the human race ( probably because their leaders also benefit from that corrupt system ). Can't fix stupid. This too will end and become another lesson not learned as with the 2008 fiasco, caused by Mickey Duck economic criminality ( for which no responsible person has been imprisoned ). IMO the crooks are running the world now. Conclusion- if humans are too stupid to realise that the present system isn't fit for purpose and do something about it, they are condemned to repeat it ad nauseam.

I don't know if I should laugh or be shocked at the spectacle of world leaders and so called economic experts running around like Chicken Little screaming that the sky is falling. I lean towards laughing. Wake up folks, the 1% probably engineer an economic "crisis" now and then to make more profit, 1998, 2008 etc. IMO we are overdue for another, though they may have been satisfied with profits from the numerous wars for a while. IMO this is merely a consequence of putting the economic future of the planet in the hands of the stock market and on one country. Do stupid things and end up with an inevitable disaster. It's about time the rest of the planet's countries took their heads out of their <deleted> and realised that if they build an economic relationship that does not depend on the US they'll all be better off. When NZ faced an economic disaster because Britain joined the EEC and stabbed us in the back, we didn't cry about it, but we put on the big boy pants, and dealt with it like grown ups. I suppose times have changed, and big boy pants are in short supply among the cry babies in charge now.

AS you say, it's sweet for you. For most of the billions on the planet it's <deleted>.

Something has gone very wrong in the BBC that it would make such a blunder.

Thank you for that. I've said it before but I'm a socialist ( small s ) but that doesn't mean I have to agree with the idiocy that the loony left are wanting. More about public health for free and the tax payer owning major organisations eg electricity, rail, water etc. Selling them to private ownership has been a disaster.