We understand perfectly, we just think it's bullshit. All of the countries that are consistently ranked as providing the best quality of life for their citizens share a suite of features, none of which are communism. No amount of condescension on your part will change this.
Good. I appreciate the lack of condescension. I still think you are wrongheaded in your analysis, but I am happy to cordially disagree with you while not infantilizing your arguments.
As for China, I think what's notable is that it was able to use command capitalism to achieve its admittedly phenomenal economic success specifically on the back of capitalism.
But now China is facing demographic collapse together with a collapse of its real estate market.
It's in the rest of the world's interest to mitigate China's coming economic difficulties as much as we can, but there's only so much we can do for an economy built on a house of cards.
Mark my words; China is in deep shit economically, and it will be a huge deal in the coming years.
you completely made up the link in reasoning that the "countries provide ... for their citizens". how does a country provide quality of life? you took a correlation and filled in the blank on causation, that it's purely caused by domestic government systems. not geographical, geopolitical, historical, material realities. the "suite of features" shared by these countries is more than just the ones you wanna focus on and ignore all the rest.
hmmmmm, isnt kind of curious how every country in the top ten list for highest home ownership rate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate) is either communist or a previously communist nation?
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no more half measures walter
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We understand perfectly, we just think it's bullshit. All of the countries that are consistently ranked as providing the best quality of life for their citizens share a suite of features, none of which are communism. No amount of condescension on your part will change this.
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Good. I appreciate the lack of condescension. I still think you are wrongheaded in your analysis, but I am happy to cordially disagree with you while not infantilizing your arguments.
As for China, I think what's notable is that it was able to use command capitalism to achieve its admittedly phenomenal economic success specifically on the back of capitalism.
But now China is facing demographic collapse together with a collapse of its real estate market.
It's in the rest of the world's interest to mitigate China's coming economic difficulties as much as we can, but there's only so much we can do for an economy built on a house of cards.
Mark my words; China is in deep shit economically, and it will be a huge deal in the coming years.
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you completely made up the link in reasoning that the "countries provide ... for their citizens". how does a country provide quality of life? you took a correlation and filled in the blank on causation, that it's purely caused by domestic government systems. not geographical, geopolitical, historical, material realities. the "suite of features" shared by these countries is more than just the ones you wanna focus on and ignore all the rest.
Yeah, sure I did. You are a liar and an intellectual coward.
-@BigNote@lemm.ee, 2023
one of the features rich capitalist countries share is extracting trillions of dollars out of poorer countries every year lol
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hmmmmm, isnt kind of curious how every country in the top ten list for highest home ownership rate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate) is either communist or a previously communist nation?
It's funny you say that considering
That's another one of your comments lol
And your point is?