• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    have you seen how most chinese are living rn? talk to some of them.

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      1 month ago

      As in they’re living better than in a welfare state? Or that they’re living in a “welfare state” and having a worse time than i.e. Americans?

      My reference of a successful welfare state would be Scandinavia.

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        i’m not sure about scandinavia’s system specifically, but a lot of these northern european countries regarded as very good still rely on hard exploiting the third world for their comfort. finland is a particularly good example of this.

        china engages in unequal trade but its not even a contest, they even sometimes strike good deals with countries they partner with. and yes, id say they definetly live better than americans from the us on average.