• GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Being Chinese must be so fucking dope. Like, I’m sure there’s lots of total bullshit to deal with, there’s no where that doesn’t kinda suck to live a little bit, but can you imagine seeing things getting better as you grew up? The idea of living through an improvement instead of an historically shaaaaaarp decline is something I envy and feel cheated out of, cause I have been cheated out of it. Quality of life for the more privileged here may be better but that’s locked out for me and for those who can get the bag, their children won’t, the bag is empty. I’d rather live somewhere that’s maybe some degree materially worse off for my monetary class that has any degree of hope for a future than this shit hesp I live in where I can see the copper wire Bek g removed already.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Its not like western capitalism didn’t have its own “golden age”, the US between 1950 and 1970s, I’m sure you’re aware how boomers bought everything specially cheap housing etc.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, hope for the future was pretty normal for a bit and expecting it to stay that way shouldn’t be too much to ask. The fact the word doomer even exists is an indictment of capitalist failure.

    • GladimirLenin [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Imagine if you’re a 70+ year old Chinese person. Growing up in absolute poverty to your country probably becoming the most powerful nation on the planet in 2-3 generations. What China has achieved in the last 70 yeas in nothing short of remarkable.