Just the fact that financial crimes over a certain amount are punishable by death in China (and people have actually been executed for them) says a lot. It's a law that literally applies only to the rich because a normal person would never even get to glimpse the amount of money required for execution to be on the table.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

George Carlin skit about executing corrupt bankers on live TV

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago

He was right, too. A few bankers and politicians get the wall and, what do you know, suddenly being very rich is good enough for a bunch of these corrupt fucks.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The fact that rich people are routinely executed in China is one of the clearest indications that dictatorship of the proletariat has been achieved. And this is precisely why China terrifies the west so much.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

China has a really high population so the total count numbers are going to seem high.

The second column tells you that it's a whopping 0.6% of China's population while every other country is between 2.7% and 8.5%. Guess which country is the 8.5%

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/

[–] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

That Australian number seems inflated by property. People bought houses 40 years ago for a handshake and a nod and now the houses are "worth" 2 million dollars or whatever. But if you sell your house you need to buy another one and they come in 2 sizes: million dollar family home or million dollar shoebox studio in the city.

So it's monopoly money.

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[–] Devanismyname@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, china felt like the enemy a few months ago. Now they feel like the sane alternative to being allies with the us. Not saying they are the good guy, but certainly better than the us is.

[–] HungLikeAHoers2010@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

China = USSR USA = N@Z Germany

[–] Devanismyname@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Starting to look this way

[–] LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Fascists

Communists

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago

again

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Wish we had the communists.

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[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I think the key difference is that Xi has a very strong vision for China and is actually practicing what he preaches; enriching the nation rather than enriching himself. Like a strict father, head of the family.

While the debacle that is the US government is all about enriching themselves and their associates rather than the nation. Like goblins in a mine.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago

That's less a consequence of specific individuals in power and more the systems at play that lead to differences between those in power. "Great Man Theory" largely takes away from actual Materialist analysis.

[–] droplet6585@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Like a strict father

Is politics just the spectrum of daddy issues an individual might have?

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

It's really about what's more important to you and where you set your priorities. Or maybe it's actually about being short-sighted or far-sighted.

The US seems to believe that having "rich" people and a poor-rich divide will somehow foster or speed up technological development. I would say that is an almost religious belief. I don't really agree with it too much personally, and also i don't like how they approach their population as "wave slaves" who are threatened with starvation and homelessness if they don't work; but also i'm not gonna interfere with US internal affairs.

I really do think that all the "corporation" things are short-sighted, and it is wise to take the "long-run" perspective and ask what will be in a 1000 years, in a billion years.

I do think that being a bully like the US is is short-sighted, an in fact disadvantageous in the long run, because it makes people distrust them, and that's a thing that puts you in a disadvantageous position in general.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago

"can i run the government?"

yes, just place your head through this hole and we'll pull the big lever that makes you god-king

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

the dictatorship of capital vs the dictatorship of the proletariat

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