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  • Mother [any]
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    3 years ago

    To be fair our capitalist hellscape contemporaries in east Asia have fared much better. This thing doesn’t seem to be driven as much by a particular economic system as much as a total lack of empathy and deep culture of selfishness. Of course capitalism primes the pump for these conditions.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I think economic concerns can explain why e.g. South Korea had a better response, in the same way economic concerns explain why Nordic social democracy was conceded due to the USSR being right next door

      • plov_mix [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Same with Taiwan. They want to be as good as the mainland/CCP in managing it. There’s real pressure even in just the optics (they also benefited materially from China’s lockdown early on)