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Re:GitHub is going down almost every day around the same time by xtian on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @10:19AM (#35887752)
The kolkhozes were not owned by the state in the Soviet Union. State-owned enterprises represent about 20% of total employment in China. Ownership is simply contingent and limited according to determinate social ends (as opposed to the total anarchy of the market in classical capitalism), but the same is true of every modern economy in the world.

As you say, the difference is whose interests dictate these ends: those of ordinary citizens or those of the monopolies and international finance.

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Re:GitHub is going down almost every day around the same time by vorpalhex on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:15PM (#35891182)
92% of China's top 500 companies have major CCP board ownership.

https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions/influence-w...

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Re:GitHub is going down almost every day around the same time by xtian on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:04PM (#35894114)
What percent of boards in the US are staffed by Democrats and Republicans (our one party with two names)?
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Re:GitHub is going down almost every day around the same time by vorpalhex on Thursday May 11, 2023 @10:33AM (#35902696)
CCP party membership is 6.7% of the population. It is restricted and a point of honor and power to be a party member.

6.7% of the country runs 92% of the boardrooms.

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Re:GitHub is going down almost every day around the same time by xtian on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:02PM (#35905863)
So no answer to my question. In the US can anyone be a corporate board member? Or is it gated by myriad social factors such as having attended an elite B school and proving yourself as a loyal servant of Wall Street bankers?
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Re:GitHub is going down almost every day around the same time by shrimp_emoji on Thursday May 11, 2023 @10:36AM (#35902746)
> our one party with two names

... If you're not a woman, gay, trans, black, poor, ...

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Re:GitHub is going down almost every day around the same time by xtian on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:01PM (#35905842)
Do you not live in the US or what?
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