Yeah, in America control is done with Circus & Bread, with the “Circus” being not just Entertainment (which includes “Faux News”) but also hyper-consumerism, whilst the control via “Bread” being with things like Private Healtcare and Student Loans.
I don’t think the US can be said to be exerting imperialist power over the Chinese though. China is probably the place least vulnerable to the US trade sanctions, for example.
Imperialism is the export of capital and the import of resources, profit from capital and labour.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
They’re some of that forced slave labor making the good that the Americans are wage slaves to consume.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Yeah, in America control is done with Circus & Bread, with the “Circus” being not just Entertainment (which includes “Faux News”) but also hyper-consumerism, whilst the control via “Bread” being with things like Private Healtcare and Student Loans.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 22 hours ago
Oh, I see.
I don’t think the US can be said to be exerting imperialist power over the Chinese though. China is probably the place least vulnerable to the US trade sanctions, for example.
Imperialism is the export of capital and the import of resources, profit from capital and labour.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Who said the US was exerting imperial power?
The cheap goods are exerting economic power on the US (and Europe too for that matter).
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 7 hours ago
I did, in the comment that this thread is replying to.
crazypeople.online/comment/11884955
Nalivai@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Export to US is 11% of Chineese foreign market. Not nothing, but incredibly far from “control”