• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    You’ve never worked in China.

    As rough as it is here, you could not imagine a life there, working 2x as hard for 1/2 as much hope.

    They just have dramatically lower aspirations, specifically they aspire to live to have kids, at which point it’s all their problem.

    The reason the West has gotten so much worse is now we have to compete with people who have literally nothing and would kill for 1/10th what we have. They’re just as capitalist as we are, they just include more direct violence in their interpretation of capitalism.

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      27 days ago

      I aspire to have a roof over my head at old age, I can’t begin to imagine having children.

      The reason the west has gotten so much worse is the same reason it’s shit in China; capitalism.