I don’t support authoritarianism, regardless of how close to communism it is. But at least China invests in its people.

I really wish they didn’t do mass surveillance and have political prisoners. And all that other bad stuff. Being a homosexual is illegal and not socially acceptable (per a lesbian from China I was in grad school with who told me this).

But you gott a give China credit for investing in their people.

The thing is, China is still capitalist.

It’s just regulated a bit better and the government officials are more educated and see that innovation and investment will make them more wealthy in the long run.

I guess their system is a bit of a hybrid. Capitalism and socialism.

But it’s not full communism no matter what they say. The workers don’t own the companies.

China invests in its people

Except if you have Rural Hukou and can’t go to public school in the city, even though you were born in the City, basically spend most of your early childhood in the city, and you parents live and work there, and its either go to a privately-run school or rural schools, both of which are shitty and don’t have proper funding, you get subpar teachers and subpar education. (Privately-run schools are worse btw, its different from the west, these are typically only for children of migrant workers, or those without a legal papers, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihaizi, these school don’t have public funding.) I mean, even the US, prior to 2025, allowed undocumented immigrant children to enroll in public school, wtf is China doing, they’re punishing children for arbitrary internal borders. Imagine if you go to another state and oopsie your kids can’t go to public school. ?!?