For a generation disillusioned by endless war overseas and financial hardship at home, China is starting to look like a promising alternative.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60270646

For a generation disillusioned by endless war overseas and financial hardship at home, China is starting to look like a promising alternative.

  • SuiXi3D@fedia.io
    162·
    11 hours ago

    They’ll be disappointed to learn that China’s just as bad as the US, in some similar and some different ways.

    • Tim@lemmy.snowgoons.ro
      41·
      3 hours ago

      But also markedly better in many. I’ve worked in Changsha on and off for the last decade, and I’d move there to live in a heartbeat. The modern US I wouldn’t touch with a hundred foot pole.

      That’s subjective of course - but, while I don’t know what you’re taught in the US (it’s actually exciting to learn that you still have schools, I thought they’d all been converted into gun ranges) about China, that some people are clueing up to the reality being different is an objectively good thing - even if it’s not all sunshine and roses in Xi’s world either.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      Every country with economic power is a propaganda machine powered by institutional financial corruption.

      All the rest are poor pawns that are shuffled around by the economic powers and sometimes turned to rubble.

      Take care of and support the best outcomes in your closest community wherever you are, everything else starts there. We’ll never solve this issue but we can make better lives for ourselves and those around us. No, do not run out to the wilderness and live alone, community is strength against all of these forces.