schizoidmanChina Is Rapidly Overtaking the United States as the World's Scientific Superpower
MwaAlso because China is not experiencing a religious movement that rejects science.
I feel as though the low standard of living of the average Chinese national is a more decisive factor. The resources that could be spent on public welfare programs are spent on research and subsidies instead.
I mean, resources aren’t being spent on public welfare programs in the US either. We only have a higher standard of living because of the legacy of (roughly) the New Deal era, when we were investing in it as well as unions winning a lot of labor reforms. Those preexisting advantages have only been slowly eroding for the last 40-odd years.
They absolutely are.
Let’s say I get into a car accident or have cancer. Treatment involves expensive chemotherapy, blood transfusion, and multiple rounds of major surgery.
If I’m in the poorest 10%-30% of the population, the care is provided free of charge. If I’m poor-but not that poor- I have the option to receive the expensive treatment and just not pay. It will just negatively impact my credit score, but I can also get away with “paying what I can afford.”
…this is just one example. Everything from our food to our electronics are subsidized by the government. Most of the resources are more or less taken from poorer nations.
Saying ‘It will just negatively impact your credit score’ like it’s nothing in a capitalist nation where nearly all financial trust is based on how effectively you pay back your creditors is a pretty wild take.
I wouldn’t be so quick to ignore medical debt. The average retired couple spends $350000 on medical expenses in the US. The system is a lot more dysfunctional than you make it out to be.
It could be better, but even the person with crippling medical debt is luxurious compared to the global norm. I think it could be better, but I think it’s important to understand exactly how much we have.
Where we got it is also important. I think it’s important to understand the exact role that weapons manufacturers and corporate chronies play in bolstering our lifestyles.
Whataboutism lmfao
Capitalism can't work with fractional reserves in place, or wealth hoarding. Our system is tyrannical in nature, and we all suffer for it. If we don't change dramatically and quickly there will be a price paid.
We need to start at the bottom. Practice self control, and independance. We need our own food supplies in the forests and fields so people dont need to rely on the system to live.
Hidden Life Of Trees describes how forests work together as a collective.
It’s more like poor China with their average $5000 per year income.
They also have a 0% homeowner rate. All property is owned by the state. As for the houses they do own, the typical city apartment or rural homestead is…deficient by Western standards.
You mean, I could live on only 5k a year, and the state takes care of the house for me? Where do I sign up bro?
Sigh, I’ll dumb it down for you.
if you have 5 rocks and it gets you a house, and another guy has 10 rocks that can only buy a Dr Pepper the guy with 10 rocks is not better off.
And you clearly don’t know anything about the system of home ownership either.
And their homes and cities are far more advanced and clean than let’s say the US shithole’s dilapidated cardboard shacks and glorified trailers. If they have a home that is.
But I should’ve seen your bias from your first silly comment so I’m going to let you be in your delusion and ignorance and not waste my time.
if you have 5 rocks and it gets you a house, and another guy has 10 rocks that can only buy a Dr Pepper the guy with 10 rocks is not better off.
And you clearly don’t know anything about the system of home ownership either.
And their homes and cities are far more advanced and clean than let’s say the US shithole’s dilapidated cardboard shacks and glorified trailers. If they have a home that is.
But I should’ve seen your bias from your first silly comment so I’m going to let you be in your delusion and ignorance and not waste my time.
I’m having a hard time believing that you live in either China or the United States.
if you do live in China, you’re job is to write these comments.
LOL man you’re even further gone than I imagined from your previous comment.
You really drank the China bad cool aid.
No I don’t live in China but in EU.
As if that matters (to anyone not paranoid and imagining things like yourself)
And it’s perfectly possible to know how people live in the US.
Or do your organizations give false statistics on the massive homelessness and poverty?
And I’ve heard first hand stories from people who went there. (I will never set foot in that banana republic)
All ‘normal’ for the people that do the NY,lA touristy things, but man were my friends shocked when they had the bad idea to bike along a large part of the coast and see the real america.
complete villages with junkies, slums and 3rd world world conditions everywhere.
The crime that came with it ended that trip a lot sooner than they planned.
I have more stories but I guess the people I know are secretely chinese or Russians trying to badmouth the greatest country in the universe.
Anyway not buying your BS and maybe you get some verification at a psychologist, if you can afford it that is.
btsaxAll property is owned by the state.
In the US too, if unpaid property taxes mean your home can be foreclosed upon
I think China’s view on property ownership has it’s advantages. Since nearly every piece of land in the US is private property, building infrastructure as simple as bike paths and railroads are a nightmare.
…I guess the government could use foreclosures and eminent domain to get similar results, it’s not as consistent.