Singapore did it first
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JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
China stands as a current authoritarian model which is being championed by people like Australian economist Steve Keen.
If you can handle the ethnic genocide, the lack of due process, suppression of information and free speech, and no democracy, you can look forward to clean streets, low crime, and high economic growth. Some people believe that’s a worthy trade. I do not.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Way to learn the exact wrong lesson from china.
China does a lot of good and a lot of bad.
We need to learn the pragmatism, government investment and holding private companies accountable part from them, not the censorship and surveillance.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I fear we are doing the opposite. Worst of both worlds.
How did that old joke go?
“Quebec could have gotten French food, American tech and British culture, but instead they chose French tech, American culture and British food”
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good joke. They may have American culture, but goddamn the metal scene is fucking amazing
Blan@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Do you happen to have some you can recommend? I’m trying to broaden my Metal-horizon.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 month ago
French engineering is world class, don’t know why they get ragged on
loutr@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah, I’m at a point where I kinda hope China becomes the world overlord… I’d rather “fuck you, society comes first” than “fuck you, billionaires come first”.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
the problem is that it’s on a knife edge of if it’s truly “society first” or “the communist party and current premier first”. Just like the soviet union.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
China has a fuck you business comes first attitude. Most of government investment is into business not into things that help people. Their health care system is shit, theyve got a ton of poverty and low wage slavery. The standard of living is going up because it was rock bottom.