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And unable to become free again: bank credits, cars, ads, junk food, pollution, spying, different sorts of control, expensive medicine which they're forced to u
by formula_ninguna 10y ago
And unable to become free again: bank credits, cars, ads, junk food, pollution, spying, different sorts of control, expensive medicine which they're forced to use because of pollution and junk food, stress, telling them how to live from mass media.
- varjag 10y agoFree again? You call living in shit and mud for all of your (short) life, not by the choice, a freedom? Sure you skip invasive ads and pollution. But your diet is still abysmal, just try living on rice and soy beans for a few months. The healthcare is poorly accessible, while party control, spying, draft etc are just as omnipresent as everywhere throughout China.
- twblalock 10y agoThey were not free before in any meaningful sense, because they lacked agency in every decision about their lives. Poverty trapped them in the same place, in the same occupation, for their entire lives. Despite what you see as the drawbacks of modern life, the people who have moved to the cities are far, far better off, and freer, than before.