The unpleasant reality is Russians, like the Chinese Americans have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. They are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

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At least we’ll finally get some fucking health care and the oligarchs will get guillotined

You and I both know that is not going to happen. Perhaps, by the end of the century there might be some progress.

Around 18% of the 2022 US GDP was healthcare expenditures. In comparison, around 6-7% of the 2022 PRC GDP was healthcare expenditures—despite having a population of more than 4x that of the US.

It’s too late. The grasp of finance capital on the US’ state of political economy is so strong that the ruling elite scoff at the notion of even providing some crumbs of the pie, i.e., imperial super profits, to placate domestic labor.

Apparently, he fell while jogging.

Western propaganda is just really lazy, nowadays. No doubt that it’s a symptom of neoliberalism-induced brain rot.

I don’t think that we disagree. Because, for the reasons that you have provided, competition will produce almost-indestructible monopolies as a natural consequence, and those monopolies have a tendency to use their extensive power to destroy and buy out potential competitors and seek for quick, easy ways to accumulate wealth; notably, through rentier capitalism.

This is literally what’s happening right now; at least, in the US.

“Competition is good because it leads to cheaper prices for consumers”, doesn’t really work since it neglects the union of the state and monopolies to artificially charge higher prices for items of the same - even worse quality; while hindering competition that has the potential to change the status quo.

I mean—the US is trying to prevent the world from cooperating with China, Russia and other major economies because they know that they are incapable of competing due to their decades-long crusade of neoliberalism. Another example is the fossil fuel industry stalling for time against the wave of the renewable energy era; or the automobile industry lobbying against efficient public transportation.

The point is that the major neoliberal powers don’t want competition to exist; they just want rent-seeking sectors that can earn them a treasure trove of money as fast as possible.

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Rentier capitalism 😞

Caucasians are just people that originate from the Caucasus, like Georgians and Armenians.

That second statement is true. The last two not so much

What the Marx are you talking about? Compare cities, like Chongqing, to NYC, and you can easily see how much superior Chinese cities are to US cities. For instance, public transportation, such as electric driver-less buses, taxis and high speed rail far surpasses anything the US can muster.

The deserts, too! Don’t forget the deserts!

https://www.rt.com/news/580370-putin-letter-kim-korea/

Every time I try to download the 2022 report, it fails every single time.

Is there a more updated version? The link was published 3 years ago.