• nucleative@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Even China knows this. Give the hard working people a better job than mom and dad had and they won’t rebel.

    The people who are rolling in their next billion have forgotten what happens when you take that away.

    • Calavera@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      They are in the economic industrial boom that already happened to western countries decades ago. The problem is that eventually all booms end

      • Syldon@feddit.uk
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        10 months ago

        That is just buying into accepting the current model where the rich can have it all at the expense of the poor. The model is the problem not the amount we have to distribute.

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      10 months ago

      China is about to find out as well, they have something like a 30% new-grad unemployment rate, and Pooh Bear is on a bootstraps kick saying that social protections encourage laziness.

      They’re on even thinner ice than the US.

      • DrPop@lemmy.one
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        10 months ago

        I mean we all know what “didn’t” happen last time students got together in protest. Whatever became of the Hong Kong protest btw?