If you're the average earner, you absolutely cannot get loans at lower rates than the interest you may get on your meager savings.
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It's not about dumb clients, everyone knows they have to spy groceries and rent, but being between literally being unable to buy groceries and having groceries and debt, many will choose the latter. It's predatory
Non-db0 user, so keep that in mind while reading my comment.
I had an alt account that got banned for posting news on europe at feddit that Estonia had just opened its first Isn'treali embassy. Another alt of mine is on hexbear, and it saves my brain a lot of cognitohazard not having to browse feddit fascism. I recommend defedding.
Fascism? In my anti-communism?!
What part of "heavy investments in AI and military" seems like a winner to you? Why would you want a far-right government with a strong military in Japan? Did you see what happened last time?
"Why would the country spawned from the Japanese Empire without significant reeducation against fascism descend towards fascism..."
Wow, what a load of made-up shit!
996 (the 12 h workday 6 days a week), while a stark reality, is only commonplace in the tech sector among young professionals, and it's actually illegal, just rarely reported and prosecuted.
People being "forced off family farms" is directly bullshit, there were never "family farms" in China, it was an empire with brutal landlords starving the peasants with a life expectancy of less than 30 years of age before Maoism, and by the time Mao died life expectancy had doubled to almost 60 years of age. Land was collectivized and belonged to the state and local communities afterwards. People moving to cities is mostly a consequence of better (while still not good) living conditions in China in early cities. That strategy turned out wonderfully too: 800 million Chinese people have been uplifted from poverty over the past 40 years in what's become the greatest poverty alleviation exercise in human history, saving hundreds of millions of lives in the process.
Companies in China don't "dump their waste in the ditch behind the factory" anymore than in any developed country. Environmental regulations in the 80s were bad because the country was underdeveloped, but in mid 2020s they're comparable to most western countries, while China is the world pioneer in nuclear and solar energy, producing 95% of all solar photovoltaic modules that are produced on Earth every year, and pioneering also electric car development and high speed rail.
Your concern for western capitalist intellectual property reveals your true ideology: you want western capital to dominate, not progress for humanity. If western companies didn't want to accept Chinese copyright laws, they could have simply chosen not to move their production to China. Otherwise, get fucked. Great job blaming the evil Chinese communists for the lack of union movement in the west, surely nothing to do with a century of anticommunist propaganda and unionbusting.
Well, we killed both nuclear and solar, that's my main point.
Definitely not a politically motivated decision, totally nothing to do with Tiktok's role as the only non-US-based mass social network, absolutely not because of pro-Palestinian views on TikTok! Europe is totally free and there's no censorship :D
I'm aware, I personally use no shoes at home ever
Well, if you want energy access, don't live in an off-grid house in a region of the planet without sunlight for 3 months a year
Life expectancy doubled during Maoism. People starved because millions routinely starved in China as a preindustrial country. Compare starvation in China with that of India during Maoism, and you'll see the tens if not hundreds of millions of lives communism saved against the alternative.