Comment on Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens

ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would prefer promotion of humility and a frugal lifestyle which values relationships, nature, personal time etc

  However banning materialist fetishes will probably do more good than harm anyhow. Slippery slope though.

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• fwygon@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The shoe fits on the other foot as well. Both extreme communism and extreme capitalism have tendencies to turn into dystopian nightmares.

  If ‘1984’ alarms you; so too should current works like ‘Ready, Player One’ or ‘Ender’s Game’ and it’s associated sequels.

  Extremism in general tends to not work. I don’t pretend to know what the exact right balance is; but it does exist.

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