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Re:SemiAnalysis: America Is Missing the New Labor Economy – ... by decimalenough on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @10:30PM (#43339360)
CCP under Xi has reverted to form after some temporary loosening up, but it's still way less autocratic than it was during the Mao era.

Also, the CCP ultimately derives its legitimacy from materially improving the country for the Chinese people: back in the day fighting back against the Japanese and corrupt warlords, now economic progress. Both the Chinese people and the CCP know well what it means if they stop delivering and the "Mandate of Heaven" expires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven

China's demographic decline will take decades and unless the CCP really fucks things up (eg. invading Taiwan and failing miserably at it), it's going to be a Japan/Korea-style slow-motion stagnation, not a dramatic implosion.

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Re:SemiAnalysis: America Is Missing the New Labor Economy – ... by AtlasBarfed on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @03:12AM (#43340617)
Mao killed 50-60 million people with starvation.

Yeah I hope he's better than that

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Re:SemiAnalysis: America Is Missing the New Labor Economy – ... by immibis on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:24AM (#43341651)
Interesting tangent to bring up. How many people does America kill?
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Re:SemiAnalysis: America Is Missing the New Labor Economy – ... by AtlasBarfed on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @12:48PM (#43345150)
Mao killed his own people. The only possible historical analogue is what USSR argued about missing people from the Great Depression.
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Re:SemiAnalysis: America Is Missing the New Labor Economy – ... by Hikikomori on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @03:10PM (#43346656)
US mostly kills people outside its borders.
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Re:SemiAnalysis: America Is Missing the New Labor Economy – ... by skyyler on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:04PM (#43347659)
The closest analogue would be the culling of the buffalo, an intentional effort to destroy the food supply of the natives.

Americans don't like to acknowledge this.

But even that's a little different. Application of new farming practices is not an intentional genocide. The culling of the buffalo was an intentional genocide.

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