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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 137 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Even China knows this. Give the hard working people a better job than mom and dad had and they won't rebel.

The people who are rolling in their next billion have forgotten what happens when you take that away.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China is about to find out as well, they have something like a 30% new-grad unemployment rate, and Pooh Bear is on a bootstraps kick saying that social protections encourage laziness.

They're on even thinner ice than the US.

[–] DrPop@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean we all know what "didn't" happen last time students got together in protest. Whatever became of the Hong Kong protest btw?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is a good question. Last time I brought this up on Lemmy, someone said they were better off under the CCP than British rule. 🤔

[–] calavera@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are in the economic industrial boom that already happened to western countries decades ago. The problem is that eventually all booms end

[–] Syldon@feddit.uk 32 points 1 year ago

That is just buying into accepting the current model where the rich can have it all at the expense of the poor. The model is the problem not the amount we have to distribute.

Apparently these billionaires vote & elect the folks who want to arm all of these workers you speak of. Sound logic if you ask me

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well nothing has happened, what is being asked of them is less than what they've taken. Worse case scenario is they give back some of the stolen goods.

But this is the same as a fine for breaking the law, they made more than they lost as a result so this is all factored in.