https://www.businessinsider.com/decline-china-international-students-economy-universities-trump-biden-immigration-covid-2022-8
https://www.businessinsider.com/decline-china-international-students-economy-universities-trump-biden-immigration-covid-2022-8
aesthetic distate for bougie items is pointless and counterproductive, and a fucking hilarious reason to say they're not socialist. Eastern Europe was once socialist and they did not have those consumer goods and luxuries that you find so unenlightened and unpure. that was closer to your ideal, I guess. So what happened, why is the socialism gone? I don't want to overstate this, cause there are many reasons why they fell, but come on. we all know what a lot of them wanted.
consider that most people are not perfectly pure, ultracommunist ascetics with no desire for ""decadent"" consumption. that will not change overnight, maybe ever to some extent, and that reality must be accommodated. luxuries that offend your utopian tastes are a very worthwhile price to pay for a stable, comfortable socialism.
the billionaires criticism I understand more, I used to agree. read some theory. read Deng himself if that's not enough
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fair enough, but there's a billion and a half of them. whoever you met is just a few anecdotal drops in a sea of humanity. 1/6th of it.
also, even if there were no Gucci pants, there would still be greedy, destructive people. Boris Yeltsin was born and raised in the USSR his whole life and look what he did.
Yeah i agree and also i obviously met a select group of people that were studying in america in a major that attracts fail children, obviously there are based chinese people out there who may even wear gucci flipflop