Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by monero-xmr on Saturday September 20, 2025 @03:25PM
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Give the average person in china the opportunity to move to America, and vice versa, there is no comparison. China has done some things right but to pretend it is some model for America is absurd
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Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by yibg on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:06PM
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This is a pretty outdated view of things too. Majority of chinese students return to china after getting their degree in the US.
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by yadaeno on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:43AM
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That is in large part to our nightmare immigration system.
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by what-the-grump on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:08PM
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The average person in America is living paycheck to paycheck and has negative equity.
20 years ago you couldn’t see in Shanghai. Trump pulled back the clean air act, it’s not hard to see a trend. It’s also not hard to buy a ticket and see it yourself.
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by cpursley on Saturday September 20, 2025 @05:29PM
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Great point, I almost wrote that they’ve cleaned up pollution (of all types) by a lot and also are accomplish some impressive feats by regreening and pushing back desertification. Amazing things can happen when you get your peoples basic needs met (ie, they can focus on higher level stuff).
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by esbranson on Sunday September 21, 2025 @02:06AM
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Regarding "not owning anything", I think you need to look up communism and consider if that's better there.
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by grafmax on Sunday September 21, 2025 @10:31AM
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60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. It depends on which Americans you are looking at if you want to understand who capitalist ownership is benefiting.
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by esbranson on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @08:34AM
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100% of communists own nothing and live bureaucrat to bureaucrat. It does not depend on which Americans we are looking at to know who is benefiting.
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by what-the-grump on Monday September 29, 2025 @11:55AM
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But thats not the reality of China right? People own cars, apartments, TVs, refrigerators, they are not distributed centrally.
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by reilly3000 on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:40PM
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I would absolutely take a chance to live in China, but I wouldn’t expect to be welcomed there. Their tech, disposable income, food costs, etc are so superior to what we have today in US.
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by ipaddr on Saturday September 20, 2025 @07:05PM
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Many Americans live in China. Give it a shot.
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by snarf_br on Sunday September 21, 2025 @12:14AM
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You are deluded.