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For those not into "Star Trek," the race called, The Borg, are a collectivist species that absorb planets and enslave the populations...turning them into automatons ...
In the Star Trek universe, The Borg are more advanced than any of the other alien races on the show....
This is, of course, silly......the way the Borg operate wouldn't create anything, and they wouldn't be as advanced technologically as any of the other races in that show.......you don't get the technological advancement from race turned into mindless automatons...
And so...some good news about China..... as all socialist countries, in this case from the communist flavor of socialism to the now fascist flavor.....China is a hollow power.........hopefully, the flaws in the socialism of China will destroy it before it destroys the world....
My initial premise is that there is no better system for wealth creation than the free market. Before leftists shackled America with punitive wealth transfer taxes and harmful trade agreements, Americaās free-market led the world in dynamism. It was innovative, affordable, and moved humanity forward in wonderful ways
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China too seems to be bursting with progress, innovation, and overseas accomplishments. Except that itās not true; not true at all.
What China has is a totalitarian mercantilist system ā or letās just be honest and call it fascism. Itās no longer purely communist insofar as China has allowed a private sector to develop and it supports wealth creation. However, while individuals can make a profit, the government still controls the private sector, underwriting it and dictating how it may operate. This underwriting allows it to compete in the world.
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The ādictating how it may operateā part is more of a problem. The government is a terrible manager. Imagine if every business in your country were run by the DMV, except that the employees were treated like slaves. Heck, you can go further and imagine that the employees actually are slaves, living in concentration camps, with the women raped and forcibly sterilized, and everyone physically abused and denied any semblance of liberty.
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Slavery sounds like pure profit because labor is allegedly free. However, the employer is now responsible for providing employees with room and board, no matter how minimalist. The employer must also provide 24-hour guard services to force the employees to work. Most importantly, slaves are not productive. The only power left to them is to work slowly and badly.
The Chinese are also hampered by a culture that, unlike the neighboring Japanese, is not dedicated to exquisite perfection. The Chinese are perfectly capable of doing things wonderfully well, but you know from buying cheap, shoddy Chinese goods at every store in America that the fascist work ethos doesnāt even try. Thereās only so long that people will put up with that before seeking better alternatives. At the end of the day, youāll do better buying a good $10 hammer rather than repeatedly replacing poorly made $5 dollar hammers.
And of course, the Chinese donāt innovate. They steal. Significant parts of their economy are built on industrial theft.
Because their domestic economy, while it looks as if itās booming, is a chimera, the Chinese are doing what all tyrants do when their economies are hollow: They expand, sucking up wealth from foreign countries. Currently (thankfully) their imperialism is economic in nature with the Belt & Road initiative that puts poor countries in Chinaās debt. Eventually, though, those countries too will have their economies hollowed out by Chinaās rapacious policies, all of which are dedicated to funneling wealth to the government.
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It would be nice if China collapsed before Western left wingers destroy our freedom......
In the Star Trek universe, The Borg are more advanced than any of the other alien races on the show....
This is, of course, silly......the way the Borg operate wouldn't create anything, and they wouldn't be as advanced technologically as any of the other races in that show.......you don't get the technological advancement from race turned into mindless automatons...
And so...some good news about China..... as all socialist countries, in this case from the communist flavor of socialism to the now fascist flavor.....China is a hollow power.........hopefully, the flaws in the socialism of China will destroy it before it destroys the world....
My initial premise is that there is no better system for wealth creation than the free market. Before leftists shackled America with punitive wealth transfer taxes and harmful trade agreements, Americaās free-market led the world in dynamism. It was innovative, affordable, and moved humanity forward in wonderful ways
-----
China too seems to be bursting with progress, innovation, and overseas accomplishments. Except that itās not true; not true at all.
What China has is a totalitarian mercantilist system ā or letās just be honest and call it fascism. Itās no longer purely communist insofar as China has allowed a private sector to develop and it supports wealth creation. However, while individuals can make a profit, the government still controls the private sector, underwriting it and dictating how it may operate. This underwriting allows it to compete in the world.
-----
The ādictating how it may operateā part is more of a problem. The government is a terrible manager. Imagine if every business in your country were run by the DMV, except that the employees were treated like slaves. Heck, you can go further and imagine that the employees actually are slaves, living in concentration camps, with the women raped and forcibly sterilized, and everyone physically abused and denied any semblance of liberty.
-----
Slavery sounds like pure profit because labor is allegedly free. However, the employer is now responsible for providing employees with room and board, no matter how minimalist. The employer must also provide 24-hour guard services to force the employees to work. Most importantly, slaves are not productive. The only power left to them is to work slowly and badly.
The Chinese are also hampered by a culture that, unlike the neighboring Japanese, is not dedicated to exquisite perfection. The Chinese are perfectly capable of doing things wonderfully well, but you know from buying cheap, shoddy Chinese goods at every store in America that the fascist work ethos doesnāt even try. Thereās only so long that people will put up with that before seeking better alternatives. At the end of the day, youāll do better buying a good $10 hammer rather than repeatedly replacing poorly made $5 dollar hammers.
And of course, the Chinese donāt innovate. They steal. Significant parts of their economy are built on industrial theft.
Because their domestic economy, while it looks as if itās booming, is a chimera, the Chinese are doing what all tyrants do when their economies are hollow: They expand, sucking up wealth from foreign countries. Currently (thankfully) their imperialism is economic in nature with the Belt & Road initiative that puts poor countries in Chinaās debt. Eventually, though, those countries too will have their economies hollowed out by Chinaās rapacious policies, all of which are dedicated to funneling wealth to the government.
The Chinese may not be quite as successful as they appear
From where we sit today, with a feckless president sliding into dementia, whose family has received billions from the Chinese and who may be caught in the web of blackmail for his, or his sonās, sexual predilections, China is in the catbird sea...
It would be nice if China collapsed before Western left wingers destroy our freedom......
