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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • TL;DR for anyone who wants it:

    the collapse had been caused by the foundations being undermined by a combination of dug-out soil being piled 10 m high against one side and the digging of a 4.6-m-deep underground car park on the other.

    The danger had been reported to the construction company, who had failed to act on it

    Also, the only fatality was a construction worker inside the building






  • First of all you confused democratic socialism with social democracy. Socialism is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism. What you describe is social democracy.

    More importantly, “properly regulated capitalism” has always led to regular capitalism. “properly regulated capitalism” still results in exploitation, if not domestically then abroad. “properly regulated capitalism” still results in commodification of common goods, depletion of resources, a class society, and environmental damage.

    Capitalism has only ever worked in theory