For a supposedly “socialist” government, they sure are doing quite a lot regulating food, by “a lot” I mean jack shit.
I’m reading “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future”, which I think is a great book, and one of its themes, that probably seems strange to Americans, is that China is more capitalist than the United States right now.
For instance, from what I read, the CCP is extremely reluctant to provide any kind of social welfare, in the belief welfare will make its citizens lazy, and the little that exists is not only incredibly corrupt but requires a degrading means testing process that even the worst American conservative would think goes too far.
But I’ve never lived in China so you may know better about that.
that China is more capitalist than the United States right now
Exactly lol, this is what I’ve been saying.
CCP is extremely reluctant to provide any kind of social welfare, in the belief welfare will make its citizens lazy
That’s my parent’s view on welfare. These views carried over to the US too. Its why they see a headline about “illegal immigrants” to the US and they start blaming welfare and think that “illegal” immigrants are somehow getting welfare and they think its taking away resources from legal immigrants. Its why they think me having depression is “weakness”. My mother told me she hates autistic people because she thinks they are “dangerous”. Like people with disabilities get would disowned by a lot of parents. If you have any disabilities, you don’t get viewd as a person, but a 廢柴 (I’d say it’s equivalent to “useless eater”). Its so messed up.
I’m reading “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future”, which I think is a great book, and one of its themes, that probably seems strange to Americans, is that China is more capitalist than the United States right now.
For instance, from what I read, the CCP is extremely reluctant to provide any kind of social welfare, in the belief welfare will make its citizens lazy, and the little that exists is not only incredibly corrupt but requires a degrading means testing process that even the worst American conservative would think goes too far.
But I’ve never lived in China so you may know better about that.
China is more capitalist than the US?
Is this the new liberal line: capitalism is bad but China is doing it more than us, so we’re good?
Read some god damn Marxist theory, holy shit.
Exactly lol, this is what I’ve been saying.
That’s my parent’s view on welfare. These views carried over to the US too. Its why they see a headline about “illegal immigrants” to the US and they start blaming welfare and think that “illegal” immigrants are somehow getting welfare and they think its taking away resources from legal immigrants. Its why they think me having depression is “weakness”. My mother told me she hates autistic people because she thinks they are “dangerous”. Like people with disabilities get would disowned by a lot of parents. If you have any disabilities, you don’t get viewd as a person, but a 廢柴 (I’d say it’s equivalent to “useless eater”). Its so messed up.