• Yewb@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    This is a coal mine canary of the future of china, civil unrest and wealth inequity for everyone!

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            11 months ago

            because maybe it will be enough of a warning for our owning classes that we won’t have to personally get our hands bloody

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              11 months ago

              “2.8B people put under severe unrest is good because it might improve my conditions that are already better than them”

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              11 months ago

              I don’t think China or india collapsing would make American billionaires scared. That’s a lot of new people to exploit

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            11 months ago

            USA is reserve currency for a huge chunk of the world, they have to all fail with their local currency first, you need a common ground for international trade - the US is still a reserve currency because oil mostly.

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              11 months ago

              So you think the civil collapse of two governments with over 2.8 billion citizens collectively would be a good thing because it would make improve the logistics of trade? /gen

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        11 months ago

        India has some social issues comparable to the rest of the industrialized world, for sure, but on a completely different scale because of their long arduous history of marginalization and castes. China is an expansionist dictatorship which is a whole other animal.