• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    This isn’t true, though. You can’t have a “little bit of Socialism” and a “little bit of Capitalism,” Socialism and Capitalism are descriptors of overall economies. Regulation in a Capitalist system is still Capitalism, Europe in particular is Imperialist (and increasingly moving to fascism as they fade from relevance in the global stage).

    Socialism, on the other hand, absolutely works, and is why the PRC is overtaking everyone else at the moment.

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      9 hours ago

      Yeah, but how is the quality of life for the average person in the PRC? Honest question, because I don’t know. I’m American they would have us believe that the average Chinese citizen is living one step of from a factory slave.

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        I’m American they would have us believe that the average Chinese citizen is living one step of from a factory slave.

        Download RedNote and see for yourself. You’ll never get a full picture from social media alone, but you can see a lot.

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        8 hours ago

        Varies dramatically depending on where you live, because China is an extremely rapidly developing country that was as poor as Haiti is today 100 years ago. Quality of life overall is good, and rising rapidly.

        I know this doesn’t say actual statistics and stats, but watching videos that actually show China can help de-mystify it.

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          China is an extremely rapidly developing country that was as poor as Haiti is today 100 years ago.

          I’d say 75, at the end of the Civil War. The firsthand descriptions of rural China from Fanshen come from around that period and are basically late-feudal, but ravaged by a few decades of major wars.