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If the government can throw you in into a re-education camp at a snap of their fingers, that's not economic prosperity in my book. Better to be poor and free th
by morpheuskafka 7y ago
If the government can throw you in into a re-education camp at a snap of their fingers, that's not economic prosperity in my book. Better to be poor and free than economically sufficient at the pleasure and whim of a dictator.
The entire concept of economic prosperity is meaningless outside a free market with due process protections. If the government can take away your prosperity for no reason at all, it's purely arbitrary and ephemeral whether or not you actually have it at any given moment.
- peteretep 7y ago> Better to be poor and free than economically sufficient at the pleasure and whim of a dictator Just how poor have you ever been?
- seppin 7y agoHow many years have you spent in jail as a political prisoner?
- peteretep 7y agoThe same amount as the vast majority of of people in China: 0
- throwaway3e2tr 7y agoIronically, President Xi was sent to a re-education camp when he was younger.
- seppin 7y agoThe millions in Xinjiang would like a word. Why do you spend your free time defending a brutal autocracy on the internet?
- peteretep 7y agoBecause the truth is more important than making up lies to feel good about yourself? Also, let's talk about the "Land of the Free" for a moment... China's incarceration rate -- for crime -- is 118 per 100,000, for 1,649,804 total. Let's add the DOD claim that an extra 3m are held in re-education camps, and take that to 4.5m, which takes us to 308 per hundred thousand. The US figure is _655_, disproportionately poor people.
- seppin 7y agoMindless babble and whataboutism. I thought this website had more intelligent conversation.. Comparing an over-zealous drug incarnation against a political political concentration camp is just perfect. Every time I visit Europe I encounter similar lazy thinking from aging leftists and teenage anarchists.
- supernova87a 7y agoGreat question. I would guess the person stating the strong opinion above has never had it tested by being in those circumstances and seeing how far it holds.