China is “set up to hit grand slams,” longtime Chinese energy expert David Fishman told Fortune. “The U.S., at best, can get on base.”

  • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, it’s crazy what you can do when you don’t have to pay people, and you can instantly stomp out all dissent.

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      12 hours ago

      Yeah Americans are doing that a lot right now

      On the other hand, being a construction worker in China is a career that you can buy a family house on

      I’d like to see you try that in the Land of the Fee and the Home of the Paid

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      I’m not suggesting that China is some utopia - quite the opposite in a number of respects. But what I am arguing is that privileged classes and groups in the west have captured control of the wider narrative and tipped the scales to their benefit; we’ve ended up with financialised economies focusing on rent extraction which are stagnant and unable to support true innovation.