It’s the geopolitical equivalent of “at least take me out to dinner first”

They don’t have problems like this in Mongolia.

Bonuses are typically tied to company performance

This thread is the best evidence of why Men’s groups exist.

It’s natural.

I don’t care about your opinion. The other poster was substantive even if I disagreed with him. You are not. You’re trying to morally shame me and it’s not working.

Lol

I understand that you think my moral superior so wrote off your comment particularly since it followed a self-identified drunkard talking about things that have nothing to do with the original discussion.

I guess I’m supposed to start weeping after your meek appeal for me to look inward. Whatever your motivation was is almost certainly something I cogently and with full knowledge disagree with.

Very powerful. I have no idea what you’re talking about either.

Clearly drunk. I have no idea who you are arguing against.

but is not acting like world police like the US Empire

Because it is too weak right now. It’s waiting for the US to make more mistakes. When the time is right it will take Taiwan and solidify control over the east and south China sea.

That you think China is different from every great power in history is the odd take. Power centralizes and seeks more power. It’s a tale as old as time. China literally modeled it’s rise after the Golden Era of American industrialization from the late nineteenth to early 1920s. America went from a backwater to a serious power in a generation. China did the same thing. It now plans to capitalize on it’s capitalism. (e.g. geopolitical dominance in the East and satellite control on the fringes of it’s empire.) China is a little America in everything but name.

It is not a police state, nor does it have global ambitions of hegemony.

Lol okay. What world do you live in?

China’s investments aren’t for anything other than the growth of its hegemonic power through the strategic control of satellite states. The carrot is easier than the stick and has better optics. However China can and will stomp out any geopolitical threat within its area of influence even if it is diametrically opposed to whatever the citizens of said state want. It is a superpowerful police state with global ambitions. The global south isn’t breaking free. It’s selling itself to China.

If you don’t live in the US, Russia, China, India or Israel then you live in a vassal state. The global south isn’t developing independently. It’s being segmented between the US and China via soft or hard power (e.g. belt and road initiative). There is no revolution of the disenfranchised. It’s just major powers doing what major powers do as we enter a new geopolitical paradigm.

If Americans didn’t have to compete against illicit labor they would have more bargaining power. Companies would keep illicit labor even if the minimum wage was raised because it’s a class of people willing to endure immense hardship whilst never complaining.

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Just selfhost your apps folks

Bad faith comparison. I’m done.

You will always have the rich & powerful and the poor. The problem is that the rich have lost all care for the poor. When you look throughout history the aristocracy was raised to rule and to steward great wealth. This meant funding art, cathedrals, public works, social services, charitable endeavors etc This raised the HDI for their surrounding community and nation. Certainly it wasn’t perfect but it was something, more than what we have now.

While most billionaires are invisible to the public what’s very clear with the visible is that they are loosely ‘self-made’ in which maybe they were rich to begin with but not remotely close to how rich they are now. This comes with a “well I earned it so I’ll spend it” philosophy. Furthermore our culture has no shared sense of identity or morality anymore so the social contract is broken. Having shed all historical culture and tradition we’re increasingly atomized and alien to one another. As a result America and to a lesser extent “The West” is comprised no longer of nations but instead of balkanized economic zones. It’s late-stage capitalism for sure but I would argue more succintly that it is late-stage materialism. Nihilism will always be the result when you remove the soul from the social equation.