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Cake day: May 24th, 2025

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  • 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.