But increasingly this describes Western countries more and more, particularly the United States.

AuthAuth 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Its not even close. The west pushes back against a traffic light camera, china has had individual tracking for over a decade.

	▲	dgellow 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What you call the west is the US (assuming you mean the flock debacle?). While there is push back against that specific company cameras are in place since a decade. If you’re in the US you already live in a world where there is individual tracking, by corporations (even supermarkets) and 3 letters agencies

The West thought that free trade and capitalism would change China.

Instead, China devised a hybrid economic system that is changing the West.