not the young ones. It's inevitable, since they've decided to not make global "capitalism" work for young people.
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Replying to @iwelsh
global capitalism is not working very well for most people; it is just that the known and tested alternatives are worse
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Replying to @Plinz
it's also not true. The current form is worse than the Bretton Woods form was; we just chose not to fix that, but abandon it.
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Replying to @iwelsh
So you don't buy the argument that globalization is lifting more people in China from abject poverty than it ruins over here?
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Replying to @Plinz
It may be, but China industrialized thru standard mercantile protectionism, not neoliberalism.
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Replying to @iwelsh
I think China is technically a pragmatically fascist country.
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Replying to @Plinz
Capitalism is not joined at the hip to democracy, whatever the Washington Consensus morons thought/thin,.
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Replying to @iwelsh
I basically agree, although I don't see a way out that is not horrible
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Replying to @Plinz
There were ways. But it's too late now. Still, there are degrees of catastrophe, even now.
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Replying to @iwelsh
Maybe China can pull it off (coordinating society at arbitrary scale while maintaining self correction of governance)?
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(Not that I feel personally compatible with a controlled opinion society at this point...)
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