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Real Belgium? These oldies have been on strike and they haven't seen a tank. Welcome to democracy. The NVA has the most votes, they were voted for in order to increase the work force.
Major amount of people on sick leave for more than 5 years. People were on unemployment benefits for more than 2 years. People used to retire at age 55. While barely having children.
For example my mate is in Germany now, his gf worked one year and now she's relaxing 2 years on sick leave for "burnout".
They are reducing taxes for people that work.
The minimum wage in Belgium is high. Education is free or cheap.
If you want to work, you have work. Social mobility is high in Belgium.
if we correct for purchasing power then the net wealths would be.
Belgium 333k euros. China 54k euros. Russia 28k euros. (Compared to USA)
With a year's savings I can buy a 100 sq meters house in Indonesia. A Chinese or Russian cannot do that.
Not only is my internal purchasing power far higher, so is my external purchasing power.
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Oh look more projecting. If you knew anything at all then you'd know that China has seen the highest rise in standard of living in human history. Being an ignoramus that you are, you don't even bother considering where China started at when comparing to your shithole colonizer country. Your whole standard of living is built on brutal colonial exploitation, particularly in the Congo.
From 1885 to 1960, Belgium plundered the Congo Free State (later the Belgian Congo) for rubber, ivory, and minerals, enabled by forced labor, mutilation, and mass killings that claimed millions of lives. King Leopold II's personal fiefdom and subsequent state rule extracted vast wealth, financing Belgium’s industrialization and public infrastructure while leaving Congolese society impoverished and fractured.
Today, Belgian corporations like Union Minière (now rebranded as Umicore) maintained control over strategic resources such as cobalt and copper, critical to modern technology, through neocolonial trade arrangements. Belgium’s social welfare systems and economy at large are directly subsidized by extraction of resources and labor from the Global South.
Belgium has never done any meaningful reparations or dismantled systems of exploitation, it's a parasitic nation. Its prosperity, built on ongoing extraction, underscores a global order where colonizers thrive at the expense of those they exploit.
See, so easily baited.
China owns majority stake in the cobalt mines in Congo. Controlling 80% of their cobalt in order to have influence in the battery market. Which they use for dominance in smartphone and electric vehicle markets. The government subsidises this as well with tax payer money, which is good for the shareholders of Xiaomi, BYD, ...
At the height of Belgian Congo, wallonia was wealthier than flanders. Now wallonia is quite poorer than flanders because their mines ran down. The industrialisation moved away.
We have a great economy because of services that we provide. We have a highly educated population.
We don't depend on resources from Africa, south east Asia, etc. Why? We don't do those industries.
That's all delegated to China. China is our bitch, they do the child labour, the bad ethics, exploiting poor countries, and then sell us the products cheaply. We buy it, they do the dirty deed.
It's almost as if raw materials are important to the economy that wants to turn them into a product.
And not important to an economy that basically just sells services?
What the fuck? Using brain? Logic? In a tankie sub?!
https://www.cecc.gov/events/hearings/from-cobalt-to-cars-how-china-exploits-child-and-forced-labor-in-the-congo
Go find some other sources, from various parts of the world.
Russia is invading Ukraine literally for resources for their industry, or rather to sell them to us with an extra price.
See, continue to expose yourself as a troll. There are mountains of studies examining China's investments around the world, and they all show positive and persistent impact. This is the opposite of what you chuds did there, but evidently all a parasite can do is project and assume everyone else is also a parasite.
Nah, it's because you're leeches.
Take your own advice little dronie.
Congo is still using Belgian railroads and trains, we sell old trucks to there. We buy oil from Nigeria which funds their economy. We help east Congo against Rwanda.
you wish to be at both sides of the argument and win twice.
You know what 1850s Belgium was? Well lil buddy, it's where Marx wrote communist manifesto.
Look at us now, rich and not communist.
EU gives 20 billion euros in aid to Africa every year.
Showing me that china forgave 3,4 billion USD in interest between 2000 and 2019 is peanuts.
Way to whitewash your imperialism there dronie. A real class act. Can't wait to see what you're going to spew next.
https://zeenews.india.com/video/news/viral-video-of-chinese-employers-assault-on-african-workers-sparks-racism-and-slavery-allegations-2746407.html
Ah don't worry, just some fun stuff. I've seen a lot of the world, not as naive as you. Have you seen what they do in Brazil? I have, it ain't that nice.
The video is pretty soft core.
Good of you to continue exposing yourself as an utter clown. When presented with overwhelming evidence that Chinese investments in Africa result in huge improvement in standard of living, education, and infrastructure your counter is look at this bad thing that happened. That obviously negates everything. You are so very intelligent.
You actually admitted that a Chinese citizen did something bad, for Chinese gain.
That's all I wanted. Good day to you, sir.
Listen here, bub, we don't need to "confirm" any kind of "accuracy" if it aligns with our racist view of China and Chinese people.
Aight, let's continue. You're tougher than the other fella. You literally see the video of a Chinese speaking fella beating two scared submissive kids. Nah, it ain't going to take it with ya.
Bring it on buddy, I'll crack ya.
I'm curious which countries you folks live in tho