• Match!!English
    5•4 months ago

    at this point I’m open to chinese world hegemony if it means I get a house, a union, and a carbon neutral economy

    • GhostalmediaEnglish
      19•4 months ago

      China has aggressive eminent domain, no independent unions, just one state permitted “union,” and is still the world’s biggest polluter with emissions that are not on the decline.

      • Match!!English
        6•4 months ago

        yeah I’d much rather see Europe do something cool

    • partial_accumen
      3•4 months ago

      at this point I’m open to chinese world hegemony if it means I get a house, a union, and a carbon neutral economy

      Have you looked at China today to see what each of those things looks like in China? Hint, its surprisingly worse in those 3 things than the USA, which is already a low bar.

      • Match!!English
        5•4 months ago

        This did prompt me to check, and China’s homeownership is higher and homelessness rates are lower than in the USA, as are their per-capita carbon emissions

        • partial_accumen
          1•4 months ago

          and China’s homeownership is higher and homelessness rates are lower than in the USA,

          Dive a bit deeper into what qualifies as a “home” in China. There are certainly fine homes and I’ll even say the majority of homes would fall into this. However, 1/3 of China is rural. A portion of that have open fires and no running water, yet is still meeting the definition of a “home”. I will say I do like China’s housing subsidy to the poor, however.

          as are their per-capita carbon emissions

          That’s one measure, and a valid one. However, if we’re chasing solving carbon we need two things. Identify and solve the largest producers of CO2.

          1 China 32.88%

          2 United States of America 12.6%

          3 India 6.99%

          4 Russia 4.96%

          Here’s the USA’s CO2, on the way down:

          source

          Here’s China’s CO2, on the way up:

          source

      • Drusas
        0•4 months ago

        It’s okay because they’ll never have to know about the slave labor because it’s illegal to report on once you’re under their rule.