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A comment on Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism. Parent comment

Re:Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism by OldManAndTheCpp on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:33AM (#21675620)
Are China's out-sized promises or environmental destruction more egregious than the same problems in the US or UK?

The air pollution currently in China is pretty bad, but air pollution goes away pretty quickly after you turn off the coal plants, and oversized promises to pensioners seems like a pretty easy obligation to amend when you have total control over the state.

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Re:Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism by rm_-rf_slash on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:55AM (#21675713)
Where’s the money gonna come from? We’re talking eventually hundreds of millions of retirees. That’s never happened in human history before.

If making good on pension promises was easy, the CCP would have done it by now.

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