An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy

Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by diceduckmonk on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:22PM (#33154764)

I also read it with the uncharitable reading. I think if OP's intention was this, they shouldn't talk about China in such general terms.

Even with the "charitable reading", I don't agree with OP. China is ranked better on the gender inequality index than America. This would fit in with the notion of government approval and subject to government control, or lack therefore. Similar picture with self-made billionaire women. Does that mean the United States should strive for the contrary?

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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by Brian_K_White on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:29PM (#33154851)

I can't give them points for enslaving men and women equally.

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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by Feuilles_Mortes on Monday October 10, 2022 @03:02PM (#33155228)

Because the U.S. certainly doesn't use slave labor...

https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploit...

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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by Brian_K_White on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:12PM (#33159084)

Did I say anything about giving the US points?

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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by mhermher on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:12PM (#33165923)

So then, should the useful heuristic include the US as well? By far, the most imprisoning country in the history of the Earth? Whose major technology companies have been clearly documented to be funneling user information to that same state's security services?

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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by Brian_K_White on Friday October 14, 2022 @03:07AM (#33200456)

If you want to talk about the US, go start a thread about that. This was a specific comment about a specific claim made about China.

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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by thrown_22 on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:26PM (#33156028)

Yes. Once you get rid of nepotism gender equality suffers because you go from 'is the child of X' as the metric of success to 'did X' instead.

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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by selfhoster11 on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:21PM (#33159155)

So China has a more equal gender distribution of both oppressors, and the oppressed? Indeed, veeeeeery impressive.

I am under no obligation to pedantically cover every possible nuance in my comments. Others have done a much better job at that anyway.

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