China Has No Use for Democracy

Re:China Has No Use for Democracy by nutcracker46 on Sunday February 10, 2019 @11:42PM (#19132122)

More propaganda from vested interests who thrive where human rights and rule of law are absent. If you want to see the Chinese future, look at the Soviet Union, Venezuela, and even Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Are there any reasonable people here on HN who are willing to actually trade their lives to live as a Uighur in China or a Saudi female? Or any sort of Venezuelan? Have fun with your life without representative govetnment or respect for individual rights.

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Re:China Has No Use for Democracy by bigmonads on Monday February 11, 2019 @12:41AM (#19132323)

I mean, I wouldn't trade my life for almost any other life - even a life of greater wealth and power.

But to take the point you've made and work through its conclusions: Hacker News skews heavily privileged male high-income engineer, and likely wouldn't trade their lives to live as an _American_ female, much less a Detroiter, Hispanic laborer, or American prison inmate.

Living in the world's sole superpower (most of HN) has, of course, its own advantages that we don't need to enumerate.

Chinese future looks a lot brighter according to most political forecasters, economists, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Century

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Re:China Has No Use for Democracy by luckylion on Monday February 11, 2019 @12:58AM (#19132375)

> Are there any reasonable people here on HN who are willing to actually trade their lives to live as a Uighur in China or a Saudi female? Or any sort of Venezuelan?

Or a poor US citizen?

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