Greatest reduction in poverty in world history, to such an extent that think tanks are able to lie about poverty going down because China improved so much while poverty increased worldwide
:graeber: made the point that almost all of the world's hot economic growth spots in the latter half of the twentieth century have been in places explicitly not following a hypercapitalist model
These people never fucking learn that the "good" capitalist countries are only possible because they export the worst of their misery to the global south
that would require reckoning with imperialism, but the imperialists tell them "actually those countries are bad and authoritarian, and we're bringing them freedom with coups, IMF loans, structural adjustment programs, and lethal aid!"
I've had some mild success when "debating" (hate that term) with family members, by pointing out that while Denmark has some extremely stringent environmental laws, Danish companies ("our companies") don't give a shit about their supposed "clean image" whenever they do business in the global south, and they can and will pollute just as much as every other company thinks they can get away with.
Greatest reduction in poverty in world history, to such an extent that think tanks are able to lie about poverty going down because China improved so much while poverty increased worldwide
In that thread if you reply that China is an outrageously successful economy they'll respond that China is capitalist, lol.
Damn, sure is curious why India isn't doing as well as they are, or why Russia wasn't able to pull of a China after embracing capitalism.
Russia's sitting on a dragon's hoard of black gold, you'd think...
:graeber: made the point that almost all of the world's hot economic growth spots in the latter half of the twentieth century have been in places explicitly not following a hypercapitalist model
Who is that?
David Graeber
Cool, I’ve read a couple of his books but forgot what he looked like
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These people never fucking learn that the "good" capitalist countries are only possible because they export the worst of their misery to the global south
that would require reckoning with imperialism, but the imperialists tell them "actually those countries are bad and authoritarian, and we're bringing them freedom with coups, IMF loans, structural adjustment programs, and lethal aid!"
I've had some mild success when "debating" (hate that term) with family members, by pointing out that while Denmark has some extremely stringent environmental laws, Danish companies ("our companies") don't give a shit about their supposed "clean image" whenever they do business in the global south, and they can and will pollute just as much as every other company thinks they can get away with.