Message from @Coolitic
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but to some degree it unfortunatley is true
The lingering depression builds up and breaks out eventually
Even for docile peoples
and they are sitting on an untold amount of USD
it really depends how bad it gets
dude
More a function of time
ppl don;t just revold every time there is a depression. lol
Not just intensity
One would hope.. but the spirit mighta been bred out of them.
they never had spirit to begin with
are you aware of their famous philosophies?
Yes they did.. at least in ancient history.
Historically, even those kinds of people can rise up
one and all devised to keep the peasants in line
If they start starving, and dying in the millions, they may, *may* overthrow their government.
But they’ll just replace it with yet another form of despotism that promises bread.
just hoading the USD, waiting to the day when they flood the market with all that inflation from 20 yrs of quantive easing
you think confuscianist chinks were anything other than a slave to their nobles?
theyve always been like that
content to lay down and be kicked
But eventually
We have a much smaller world tho
And exposure to other cultures
they can but won't
So the time required will likely be accelerated
@Laucivol only peasants died under mao
if the urbanite chinks died en masse
theyd change their tune
communist gov is playing both sides against each other; creates a limited affluent class to use western capitalism to fund their develoipment whille leving the rest as peasants
Which is the group that needs to rebel - the peasants.
No.
most of chinas population is urbanite tho
then when world economy tanks (always does), they turn to peasants and go < "see. capitalism bad. communism good"
A common "problem" with westerners is that you seem to think that Liberalism must always produce the best outcomes by definition (at least long term). You literally have no clue how to even begin to deal with a system that isn;t like your own, but it still works, and perhaps even beats yours in some ways.
^^
The group that needs to rebel in China is - high level party members who think they can get ahead by whipping up a starving people into a frenzy.
Then you get your overthrow.
...straight into another kind of despotism.
they won't