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19% would be the complacent middle class 🤮

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[–] CanadaPlus 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Geez China. So much for lifting a billion out of poverty.

I mean, conditions have gotten better, but clearly there's gaps.

[–] Scotty@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is ample evidence that inequality is on the rise in China.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, and you just posted it. Did you think I was arguing?

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lot of SIMPs for China around Lemmy even for a reasonable critique. Can be hard to tell sometimes

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's definitely fair.

[–] Scotty@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 1 week ago

No, all fine. Sorry if my comment was misleading.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

yah china lie about its numbers a lot, im beginning to wonder about its population count as well

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

They already did that, now capitalism evolves into its final form as fascism like it always does.