r/CitiesSkylines • u/donoteat1 • Apr 26 '19
Howdy, it's donoteat, here for the official AMA because they put me on the Youtube AMA (OVER)
Hi everyone, Paradox/Colossal Order put me on the youtube so you can now all see what I look like. I'm not actually 60 years old or a SEPTA token as it turns out...
ask me about
urban planning/architecture/policy
how Matias from Paradox wound up on BBC International when he came around to film the episode
philadelphia
unions
trains
socialism/anarchism/leftism
my allergies, which are currently semi-debilitating
or whatever!
do not ask me about
- workers & resources: soviet republic
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u/Sinnaj63 😂😂😂👌💯 Apr 26 '19
it isn't tho it has tons of issues
essentially it was a capitalist project from the ground up; and not in the ideological sense but in that it was actually a bunch of factory owners; specifically coal and steel heavy industry titans cooperating(Tho tbf under the excuse of working together preventing another world war or something).
It is kinda undemocratic. The parliament only decides if it wants to allow or veto laws propopsed by council and commission(who are made up of people installed by national governments); unlike every other parliament in the world it cannot even actually decide on budget.
There are also things like regulations preventing EU member nations from regulating their financial sector and forcing them to do the whole austerity thing.
And yes there is the Euro which is extra bad; they even very seriously considered installing a government in greece to manage the country untill the debt was paid(And did in fact have a bunch of sketchy unelected agencies fiddling around with the Greek, lowering their living standards by like a lot)
Finally, the European Union treaties saying all that can't really be changed. That is, they can be changed by all the member state governments, so any 1 rogue government(Like say semi-fascist hungary) can prevent changes.