Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns

Elting@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  AI girl/boyfriends are fucking addictions latching onto people vulnerbilities.

  This is nothing but good, but no one thing will fix child birth rates, nor the reason for the addiction in the first place, I’ll agree with that.

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  • Elting@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is funny to me that china can pretend not to be a capitalist nation while displaying every symptom of capitalism.

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    • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can argue that you have capitalism if transactions are happening. Which means the word kind of looses it’s meaning because it’s so broad.

      But people will often define it on how much market control the state displays.

      You can then argue that China has market control on key aspects of important sectors. Which they do, but still with an approach, that they have private companies with government subsidies.

      But most of all, the need for distance to the world capitalism is more a marketing thing. Unless they believe that capitalism is just a tool to achieve socialism, which also can be true.

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      • Elting@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I would argue a capitalist nation is any one that re-inforces private (not personal) property by law, and facilitates the exploitation of those resources through a market.

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      • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What you’re describing is dirigism at best. They have billionaires bro. They’re capitalist.

        Bernie Sanders is more economically left wing than that and he doesn’t even describe himself as a socialist.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You can argue it, but you’d be wrong.

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