The komunist kids of lemmy like to outrage one another by invoking big bad capitalism, but always seem to side-step the fact that any and/or all forms of government/economies- when allowed to run unchecked, will exhibit similar results.
Look at both China and Russia. As authoritarian as it gets and the poors there suffer the same as we do, all all so that their elite can thrive just as ours does. And they like to pretend it’s not happening while in between the doom-scrolling on their capitalist-produced smartphones and watching corporate sponsored blowhards on YouTube their grubby little fingers point ever outward.
China produces ~65% of global smartphones. At worst US companies simply re-brand products from overseas OEMs, at best they’re using Chinese produced semiconductors and components to create original products.
The rest of the consumer electronics market is pretty similar. If you believe modern China is communist then they are “doom-scrolling on their communist-produced smartphones” through a communist produced network infrastructure which you are, most likely, reading through a communist-produced screen.
I would argue however that modern China largely split the difference between the USSR, which you are McCarthy-ing about, and the modern Russian Federation, which explicitly reformed into a liberal democracy with a capitalist market economy.
The komunist kids of lemmy like to outrage one another by invoking big bad capitalism, but always seem to side-step the fact that any and/or all forms of government/economies- when allowed to run unchecked, will exhibit similar results.
Look at both China and Russia. As authoritarian as it gets and the poors there suffer the same as we do, all all so that their elite can thrive just as ours does. And they like to pretend it’s not happening while in between the doom-scrolling on their capitalist-produced smartphones and watching corporate sponsored blowhards on YouTube their grubby little fingers point ever outward.
China produces ~65% of global smartphones. At worst US companies simply re-brand products from overseas OEMs, at best they’re using Chinese produced semiconductors and components to create original products.
The rest of the consumer electronics market is pretty similar. If you believe modern China is communist then they are “doom-scrolling on their communist-produced smartphones” through a communist produced network infrastructure which you are, most likely, reading through a communist-produced screen.
I would argue however that modern China largely split the difference between the USSR, which you are McCarthy-ing about, and the modern Russian Federation, which explicitly reformed into a liberal democracy with a capitalist market economy.