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  • Does this lack the view how much a fast economic growth affects different people & the difficulties that come with that?

    China overall grew a lot in a century but most of that was in big cities (old & new ones), it wasn’t uncommon that nearby smol cities & villages not too far from those cities weren’t even really connected in a sort of daily practical way (railroad or direct road to go buy things & come beck the same day) until a few decades ago (there were huge efforts, good & “not-so-good” ones to relocate people to cities - which would decrease income disparity but on the count of hard cultural shifts for people affected).

    What you get it is vast differences in economy where the worlds of “200 monies is not something I notice” and “200 monies is how much I save in a few good years” coexist in the same region where both of those two live their normal lives. The first one being like an average worker but in a modern city & the later one like a farmer living off the land (and not really having a monetary income beyond that of small trade to buy necessities they can’t grow).

    But medicine & healthcare in general isn’t a system that works like that. You don’t want old drugs on the “undeveloped” periphery, that doesn’t make sense, you want the same standard everywhere. Same for the staff & equipment (you wouldn’t teach medics in an outdated facility & make them use outdated equipment & pay them less bcs of that).

    And that makes shit like this happen even if things were properly managed (which ofc they aren’t).

    The gov is indeed very pro labor productivity afaik, and the productivity needed is somewhat guided (a bit less strictly solely financially motivated compared to western capitalism, but that too ofc) so if they are linking rights to an employer that is surely for keeping up the productivity (and workers not pursuing lives without “regular work”).



  • I don’t disagree (and I didn’t write anything disagreeing with that).

    What I added was that we still on average admire nations build on genocide or immoral individuals just because of their wealth and status achieved (& how long lasting & persistent it is).

    I never said that a bunch of us don’t disagree with genociding anyone. There are always voices like this through the history.

    (Tho on that note, not that it’s relevant, about the person you replied to - I don’t like when ppl use the word ‘genocide’ for a political party/military group & not something broader, like ethnicity.)