OMG CHINA BASED?!

    • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      All Chinese companies are owned by the Chinese government. It’s still a centralized economy.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Tbf child labor gucci shoes would still be possible under communism, you just wouldn’t “buy” them technically (though nobody has been able to explain to me how “everything’s just free now” would work. They just say “no more money” and, ok, but then how do we entice people to do things that aren’t fun but are necessary? Usually the answer is “someone will want to clean septic tanks” and I know there’s a couple coprophiliacs out there, but I can’t imagine it’s enough to sustain the septic industry on fetishists alone.)

          • beam_follower@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            8 months ago

            I believe that once the useless/unproductive jobs are gone, people are free to do what they love to do ( as there is no threat of starvation) , there will be inventions (robots for example) to take care of tasks such as cleaning septic tanks , better designs reducing need for cleaning or even newer tech to do away with septic tanks.

              • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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                8 months ago

                Thing is a ton of people who could be thinking are instead forced to do repetitive labor for a living. While the automated septic cleaning robot probably won’t happen, I’m sure we’ll see waste reduction after allowing them to think instead of just survive

          • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
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            8 months ago

            The social democracies of Northern Europe meet more of the goals of communism than China does.

            You know, the parts that actually make life better for people.

            It seems to have started to falter, though. The will to keep it going seems to be withering as people are increasingly mocking anyone on welfare without being completely disabled, and thinking about how much nicer their houses and vacations and parties could be if taxes were lower.