OMG CHINA BASED?!

    • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
      525·
      30 days ago

      All Chinese companies are owned by the Chinese government. It’s still a centralized economy.

              • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                15·
                29 days ago

                That’s fantastic. Someone should tell Hexbear we can get to communism by simply giving billionaires all the remaining money.

              • YeetPics@mander.xyzEnglish
                3·
                28 days ago

                And not a communist one.

                The means of production belong to the government which belongs to muskrat, et cetera.

                You understand the transitive property of ownership, yes?

                The people exist only to buy from the government owned corporations.

          • undergroundoverground@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            29 days ago

            Like i said, people really don’t understand what communism is. They fill in the bits they dont know with any old crap that comes into their heads.

          • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            28 days ago

            The social democracies of Northern Europe meet more of the goals of communism than China does.

            You know, the parts that actually make life better for people.

            It seems to have started to falter, though. The will to keep it going seems to be withering as people are increasingly mocking anyone on welfare without being completely disabled, and thinking about how much nicer their houses and vacations and parties could be if taxes were lower.

            • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
              2·
              28 days ago

              I admit that China’s mass infrastructure project impresses me. Unfortunately, their building standards are lacklustre, and the skyscrapers are falling apart.

              There are longer videos of their skyscrapers. Such as one where a man can literally dig through the concrete columns

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          30 days ago

          Tbf child labor gucci shoes would still be possible under communism, you just wouldn’t “buy” them technically (though nobody has been able to explain to me how “everything’s just free now” would work. They just say “no more money” and, ok, but then how do we entice people to do things that aren’t fun but are necessary? Usually the answer is “someone will want to clean septic tanks” and I know there’s a couple coprophiliacs out there, but I can’t imagine it’s enough to sustain the septic industry on fetishists alone.)

          • beam_follower@lemmy.todayEnglish
            53·
            30 days ago

            I believe that once the useless/unproductive jobs are gone, people are free to do what they love to do ( as there is no threat of starvation) , there will be inventions (robots for example) to take care of tasks such as cleaning septic tanks , better designs reducing need for cleaning or even newer tech to do away with septic tanks.

              • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
                41·
                30 days ago

                Thing is a ton of people who could be thinking are instead forced to do repetitive labor for a living. While the automated septic cleaning robot probably won’t happen, I’m sure we’ll see waste reduction after allowing them to think instead of just survive

            • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              29 days ago

              First of all I believe it’d be prudent to invent the slave robots and food replicators first, not just “hope someone invents them now that they’re bored.”

              Furthermore I am fairly certain robotics and science-fictional tech would require highly skilled engineers who would have to go to school for it now that they’re “bored.” You can’t just be like “well I’m bored because I’m no longer a plumber I think I’ll invent a time machine.”

          • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
            33·
            30 days ago

            Realistically, the tanks will be cleaned because the city smells awful and someone will have to clean it. We already have volunteer organizations in the present day despite the system.