Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Transfers

Re:Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Tr... by seibelj on Sunday September 09, 2018 @12:08PM (#17946501)

You are seriously arguing that consuming sugar is equivalent to mass murder ordered by the government, and that a totalitarian regime might be better than democracy? I think you have some errors in your logic.

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Re:Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Tr... by pk3469 on Sunday September 09, 2018 @12:16PM (#17946542)

If a totalitarian regime is not better than a democracy, then why is China outpacing the western world by every meaningful metric? Why are more and more governments increasingly shifting to the totalitarian side of the spectrum?

I think it's pretty obvious by now that individuals' feelings of being 'free' are not relevant to the big picture of what nation states seek to achieve. If you tasked an AI with controlling a country to achieve arbitrary goals, you can be damn sure it would be totalitarian for maximum efficiency.

I don't support or condone totalitarian governments and I value my freedoms, however illusionary they may be. But I have no delusions about what the optimal governance structure is.

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Re:Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Tr... by icebraining on Sunday September 09, 2018 @02:29PM (#17947110)

why is China outpacing the western world by every meaningful metric

On what meaningful per capita metrics is China outpacing the Western world?

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Re:Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Tr... by fit2rule on Sunday September 09, 2018 @12:40PM (#17946644)

One bomb dropped every twenty minutes for the last 30 years, mostly on innocent people.

Hell yeah, America has a mass-murder problem. Its just ignorant of the fact because .. you know .. nobody likes to know how their powerful military is really being used.

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