• NewDark@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    You forgot, you have to ignore all the good things China does, highlight all the bad (especially if it’s western fear mongering bullshit), and when you highlight how contextually the US is almost always worse for X reason, remember to “oppose both” when you seem to have way more smoke for the other. This is because “tankies bad” and don’t think about it harder obviously. /s

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      1 day ago

      You forgot, you have to ignore all the good things China does

      For it’s workers? China is still behind EU when it comes to workers rights and benefits though? Good for them they are slowly, very slowly progressing in that regard.

      E.g. paid time off in China is 5 days a year, +5 for every decade of cumulative work experience; it starts at 4-6 weeks in the EU; China has more of it’s own youth muddled in gig economy then EU (don’t get me started on how exploitative gig work is, it is disgusting any country allows for that practice).

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        23 hours ago

        Even in your one cherry picked metric it’s still beating the US. Incredible.

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          22 hours ago
          1. Why would you use shit for comparisons? Compare upwards. And why would you inject US into this thread too?
          2. I don’t care about this thread or you, why would I spent more effort showing more metrics?
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                8 hours ago

                I think lifting that many people out of extreme poverty in that short of time is admirable, and speaks to how recent the rise has been. The fact you’re saying “but they don’t have as good of worker amenities like paid time off of Europe that wasn’t at nearly such a disadvantage” is a wild standard.

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                  7 hours ago

                  Why is it “a wild standard”? We’re taking workers rights. China is a big, wealthy developed country, why would we not expect from it at least good labour laws? The worker exploitation is not admirable. And I detest anyone who says otherwise.

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                    7 hours ago

                    So why aren’t you more bothered by the worse actor that’s been the hegomonic superpower for the past 80ish years?