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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by zdragnar on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:37AM (#27593037)
China has no social safety nets, no freedom of movement (trying to move to a big city from a rural province to get a job, and you are effectively an illegal immigrant).

Its last 40 years has been one of decreasing centralized economic control, and increasingly capitalistic engagement. The wealth gap between the few richest and the many poorest is far greater than the UK's- Britain looks practically egalitarian in comparison.

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by chalst on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @02:18PM (#27595172)
If it is not clear, I'm comparing China today with C19th Britain. Britain's safety net back then was mostly driven by private and Church charity, and covered very basic health and education services and the existence of workhouses. Starvation was rare in mainland UK, but extreme malnutrition was common, and the military complained consistently about the dreadful health of recruits. China is far ahead of this.

China has inequality today, but it does not have a rentier class, which dominated C19th British politics.

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