Re:How to Be Useless
by Apocryphon on Saturday January 15, 2022 @04:29PM
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China’s got their own equivalent movement to deal with:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29372166
Of course, you could claim both nations’ intelligence services are engaged in a game of rival psyops, but stories like this would seem to indicate there’s worker discontent that crosses borders.
Re:How to Be Useless
by AussieWog93 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @04:59PM
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>stories like this would seem to indicate there’s worker discontent that crosses borders
100%, man.
My point wasn't that "China's probably doing this"; just that there are other powerful interests outside of corporate lobbyists that have very different goals.
I can't see a mix of obscene inflation (mainly in rent/real estate prices), a culture of conspicuous consumption and a WW1-style class divide where competent working class people are bossed around by the reject offspring of the upper 20% leading to anything more than mass discontent.
The CCP. Xi Jinping absolutely stands to benefit domestically from discord being sown in the West, especially if it's of a Marxist nature and broadly in agreement with the doctrine of Common Prosperity.
(Not actually accusing anyone of anything - there's no way their propaganda department could be this competent - just answering the question directly).