They are not treated like Iraq or Iran. That alone is a success, for every citizen.
The difference to the West is that the party stands above the billionaires. That means they have working healthcare despite billionaires.
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boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoAll that work has paid off for China.
True, they’re minting new billionaires faster than any other country in the world.
plyth@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
We have working healthcare in most of the west, with fewer billionaires. I’d in fact say much of the west has even better healthcare than China.
The US doesn’t, but then both the US and China are ultracapitalist nightmares.
plyth@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Compare China to other countries that were poor in the 1970ies and China becomes impressive.
The USSR tried without billionaires and they are gone.
Europe has good healthcare because we had to look good compared to eastern Europe. We are cutting costs and in 10 years we likely will be much closer to the US system.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
And China will also have to cut costs when having an aging society really hits them. Rampant capitalism won’t save them there.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They’ve also lifted 800,000,000 people out of poverty in 40 years.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yes, they industrialized. Same thing happened more or less everywhere else, just earlier, because China stayed an agrarian society for longer.
The reason most other countries can’t say the same though, is that they don’t have 800,000,000 people in the first place.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
👍
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
lol