• @flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    821 year ago

    You know what happens when an entire nation is exposed to luxurious lifestyles of an extremely wealthy minority?

    Revolution. Revolution happens.

    Chinese politicians know this fact too well, that’s why they’re trying to make rich people hide their wealth.
    I mean actually fixing the problem is out of the question, that would be communism.

    • blargerer
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      221 year ago

      This is one of those laws where I fundamentally disagree with the state having the power to make laws like this because the power will be misused, but in this instance, I actually think the law seems fine? Its not just exposing actual luxurious lifestyles like you imply, its also people going into debt to fake a higher level of lifestyle than they actually live, and this self perpetuates through social media like a virus.

      • DessertStorms
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        271 year ago

        If the government gave even a single shit about the poor, they would focus on banning wealth hoarding not wealth flaunting.
        But they don’t, so they aren’t.
        What they are doing is openly showing who they are and what they do care about (capitalists, on both counts), you not wanting to believe it is a different problem.

        • applepie
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          31 year ago

          Hoarding would be sufficient.

          Limiting peoples ability to express rarely results in desired outcome.

    • ☂️-
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      101 year ago

      you and me are probably exposed to extreme luxury from a minority, but revolution aint happening anywhere rn

    • @electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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      61 year ago

      Idk. That exposure happens here, and it mostly makes people go into debt trying to emulate the appearance of wealth.

    • @NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Communism wouldn’t fix much, and it would only be a temporary fix. It doesn’t work well at a larger scale which is why every country that has tried it has either fallen apart or turned into a dictatorship.

      We’re better off finding the proper balance between capitalism and socialism until someone comes up with a better system that actually works.

      • @Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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        101 year ago

        I mean most houses crumble when you hit em with a tornado but were still building houses.

        What i mean to say is I think we can agree there’s enough noise in most previous communism attempts, making them pretty shitty data to base your hypothesis off off

        • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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          -61 year ago

          Communism is a house that crumbles on its own, fast, while producing tornadoes that take down other houses in the process.

          • @Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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            51 year ago

            Fun analogy but uh that’s not all that scientific my guy.

            Give me 5 min and I’ll draw communism as Chad then you’ll be fucked

          • @Soggy@lemmy.world
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            31 year ago

            Which Communist government existed in a world where othet countries didn’t actively sabotage it?

    • @saltesc@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Gotta suppress those aspirations before they get out of hand. Wealth is just the theme in this case, but could be anything else.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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      21 year ago

      You know what happens when an entire nation is exposed to luxurious lifestyles of an extremely wealthy minority?

      They also want the same thing.

  • HobbitFoot
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    381 year ago

    China really doesn’t want to have the discussion that its economy is more unequal than the EU’s.

    • @leaveWitX@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      bad news, those who do rap in China are all technical secondary schools.

      I know that not all countries care about academic qualifications as much as China. Academic qualifications mean almost everything in Chinese, so this makes those who rap more funny because they have no academic both time . can you understand what i mean ?

    • @Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee
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      21 year ago

      Nah. Having so much wealth that it doesn’t matter if the CCP makes flaunting illegal is an insane flex. They’ll start doing it even more.

    • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      That’s a weird combination of things to believe. It’s weird all together and every part of it is weird individually.

      • @leaveWitX@lemmy.world
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        -11 year ago

        I can explain to you ten thousand words to prove that China’s humanistic heritage has never changed since the Qin Dynasty.

        This is probably a consensus on the Chinese Internet.

        I was just joking when I said Renaissance, although it is not unreasonable.