Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by wolverine876 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:23PM (#29491345)

> When you have observed a colossal material improvement in your life, and you have hope for the future, you can overlook a lot of problems with governance.

It has been long believed to work the other way: Poor people don't have the education or resources to deal with governmance; they are trying to survive, working three jobs (if they can get them), etc. When the middle class expands is typically when democracy blooms.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by vkou on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:27PM (#29491382)

Democracy doesn't bloom when the middle class expands. Democracy is just one possible outcome of political upheaval - and political upheaval happens when the middle class feels that their situation is hopeless.

Russia's 'middle class' expanded massively since the economic disaster of the 90s, but I would not describe it as being more democratic today than it was in 1995.

A rising middle class isn't why communism fell apart in the 80s, either. It fell apart because the country lost any faith that the system will bring future prosperity.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by wolverine876 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:33PM (#29491446)

I didn't say that it happened automatically.

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