the China tariffs fight. Most of them are wealthy bc they use cheap labor trough China . That’s not capitalism that’s using the slavery of a communist regime. I see it . I wish I could unsee it. I used to be a pacifistic socialist. Bc of My European education. So I understand the
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China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015. China has used the globalization to industrialize itself, and basically eradicate its poverty.
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I used to think in the same way as you! But I have lived in East Germany, and witnessed how everybody's standard of living increased after the wall came down. Eastern Germany had much higher equality and social justice. But it could not get its economy to work.
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I know I witnessed the fall of the wall and have seen the comparisons. Is that bc that system doesn’t work or that there are still a small percent who are hoarding all the money? I have lost my faith in humanity .. Not the in the regular hard working people but in any systematic
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The problem in East Germany was not the supply of money. It had its own currency, it could just print more. The problem was that you could not buy very much with it, because nobody was incentivized to produce.
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Laziness is one of the worse character flaws imo. And I see more and more of it :(
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Appeals to morality are pointless. Eastern Germany tried, our streets and newspapers were full of motivational propaganda. People will usually figure out their actual incentives.
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Jesus people behave like ants without a queen there is no direction at all.
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Btw how come I feel everything I say to you is redundancy ?
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