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