• zbyte64@awful.systems
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    17 hours ago

    Overproduction of commodities is certainly a problem for capitalists. But the workers get to enjoy a lower cost of living. Like I would much prefer we built ghost cities (Chengdu was derided as a ghost city at one point) than have a decades long housing crisis with no signs of improving unless we deport millions of people.

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      17 hours ago

      At some point, though, when the government keeps running up deficits to subsidize this, the bill comes due

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        10 hours ago

        Yeah, sure. China has a debt to GDP of 88.6%. That’s not great. Luckily we don’t have that problem in western capitalist countries, right?

        • USA: 121%
        • Canada: 104.7%
        • UK: 101.8%
        • France: 111.6%
        • Japan: 251.2%
        • Italy: 136.9%
        • Belgium: 105%
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          5 hours ago

          This isn’t about the US. My criticism of the US was pretty clear in the original post

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              4 hours ago

              Ok fine: this isn’t about the west. You see a comment about economics and your immediate response is whataboutism because you think this is about politics