| ▲ | selimnairb 6 days ago |
| I guess WWIV has been on a slow burn for going on three years now. |
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| ▲ | VyseofArcadia 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Did I miss WWIII? |
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| ▲ | queuebert 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| More like since Deng Xiaoping initiated the modern Chinese economic strategy in the '80s to control the West through trade. |
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| ▲ | RevEng 6 days ago | parent [-] | | The West did a fine job of this themselves. Outsourcing to poorer countries is what has made the West so wealthy for so long - goods whose price is subsidized by cheap labor. Now that China and other countries have caught up, the West doesn't get the same discount, but they also don't have their own manufacturing because they all outsourced. We did this to ourselves. | | |
| ▲ | p2detar 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Very much this. We could have also used that time to advance and perfect on-demand production like 3D-printing, enhance our society by promoting more robust and prone to repair products, but instead we clinched on mass-consumption and profit. Our whole economic system needs recheck. | | |
| ▲ | mrguyorama 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Sorry best we can do is an incompetent admin full of 3rd rate celebrities who explicitly want to dismantle everything our ancestors built with a side of outright grift. The department of education is for losers. What do you mean half the country can't read at a high school level? |
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