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Someone should tell China they are doing it all wrong. (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Paragon of poor economic choices

smuglord "I mean its economics 101! If you always actually complete things instead of just throwing money at rich assholes, eventually you're gonna run out of projects that need doing. And where is your economy going to be then? That's right stonks-down "

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

throwing money at rich people is good as long as it's in the form of coins moving at several kilometers per second

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

the-doohickey or whatever you got lying around

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It was less smug, but I basically received this argument from one of my brothers when I tried to explain that China is (probably) striving towards a future where it's good enough for capital to do things people need instead of making financial profits.

Edit: I'm always open to the possibility that I'm an idiot, but it really seemed like he had never considered the possibility that resources could be used to directly meet needs. I'm not feeling like I was the one being stupid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Seems like standard capitalism apologia to me. Just absurd statements about how helping people is actually bad somehow and that society is better off if everyone is suffering. And it's so far off base from things like basic empathy that it sounds unbelievable, especially when it comes out of people we care about.