• nucleative@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Even China knows this. Give the hard working people a better job than mom and dad had and they won’t rebel.

    The people who are rolling in their next billion have forgotten what happens when you take that away.

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      China is about to find out as well, they have something like a 30% new-grad unemployment rate, and Pooh Bear is on a bootstraps kick saying that social protections encourage laziness.

      They’re on even thinner ice than the US.

      • DrPop@lemmy.one
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        I mean we all know what “didn’t” happen last time students got together in protest. Whatever became of the Hong Kong protest btw?

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          This is a good question. Last time I brought this up on Lemmy, someone said they were better off under the CCP than British rule. 🤔

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      They are in the economic industrial boom that already happened to western countries decades ago. The problem is that eventually all booms end

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        That is just buying into accepting the current model where the rich can have it all at the expense of the poor. The model is the problem not the amount we have to distribute.

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      That has been the US and western Europe strategy. Give back just enough so that people don’t think they have enough to win by changing the existing order

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      Well nothing has happened, what is being asked of them is less than what they’ve taken. Worse case scenario is they give back some of the stolen goods.

      But this is the same as a fine for breaking the law, they made more than they lost as a result so this is all factored in.