> the chinese are definitely going to pull ahead

Are they? Please don't forget at least 50M Chinese in abject poverty and a demographic crisis barreling towards them that is not avoidable unless they develop cloning vats that can rapidly age a clone to productive adulthood in a compressed timeframe.

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kachapopopow 2 days ago | parent [-]

the heartbreaking truth is that those 50m people do not matter or at the very least the government is not interested in them.

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dnautics 2 days ago | parent [-]

"do not matter". I mean idk, some of them burn down factories when they don't get paid.

	▲	kachapopopow 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		nothing a genocide or two can't solve (based on a real story) the governments have grown too powerful to be overthrown by people, and yes I do realize that the military itself is made out of people (for now), but in a way they are brainwashed? to follow orders from above.