China prospered *seriously* in the 1990's-2000's, after market reforms, and a bunch of people with the means to do so wanted to get in on that. From the perspective of someone doing business internationally, the emotion is YAY THERE IS SO MUCH MONEY NOW. WHEEEE.
mostly you see critique of "woke capitalism" from people who have different values than mine (they *actually* don't approve of money or homosexuality or feel-good pop media or w/e) so it's difficult for me to relate to.
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and, like, I think convenience and pleasure *are* values, it is nice to have nice things, nothing else makes sense if you reject that at a radical level (rather than just instrumentally accepting that some conveniences/pleasures have bad consequences).
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but what I *can* identify with is the fear that there's this "squishy" population that doesn't have boundaries it won't cross at *all*, and treats you like a pariah if you ever go "hey but I don't like that" to the thing that is currently the most Winning.
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