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How facile to compare the situations of companies "when they follow [China's] rules" and "when they obey US laws" as if they are equivalent. America is being a
by fennecfoxen 6y ago
How facile to compare the situations of companies "when they follow [China's] rules" and "when they obey US laws" as if they are equivalent.
America is being arbitrary, capricious, and unfair, in contradiction to the neutral and generally applicable law in America. But China's legal system has been arbitrary and capricious for decades, and is rotten to the core, consistently elevating the whims of the ruling party over rights and due process.
To use nonsense numbers: the US is designed to be 0% arbitrary but is being 20% arbitrary here. China is designed to be 90% arbitrary all the time. Clearly means China can keep out all the firms and be virtuous, but when the US keeps out any firms for any reason they're unfair and wicked!
- andrewPP 6y agoThe problem with the Chinese government/legal system is well known for long and most Chinese people wish it can improve over time. It is weird to see that some people in the US wants to celebrate and justify the deterioration of their designed-to-be-perfect system.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoWho’s celebrating? In this thread? I’m just pointing out the hypocrites crying “hypocrisy!”
- chrischen 6y agoIt would be hypocrisy if China wasn’t a heavily planned market economy that they are in fact claiming to be. You have two systems, and one of them is having doubts about the efficacy of its own system. In theory at least, China’s planning either results in less competitive alternatives, or eventually it would have to open up its economy (when the playground is more fair) to foster its own innovation. If it never allows competition then innovation would languish. If we take action in contradiction to this natural series of economic events, we would be hypocrites as we’d be losing faith in our core economic beliefs.
- chrischen 6y agoYea let’s admit it, China’s right. We should all go to a planned economy like them because we no longer believe a free market will work (sarcasm).