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Private tutoring will always be available to the rich. The various bans on personal freedom will keep life mediocre and ambitions small for the majority. China
by seibelj 4y ago
Private tutoring will always be available to the rich. The various bans on personal freedom will keep life mediocre and ambitions small for the majority.
China won’t reverse anything and their authoritarian nature will (as always) lead to ruin.
- pm90 4y agoAuthoritarianism doesn’t always lead to ruin. It does have negative effects (stifling innovation, increasing likelihood of disastrous civil wars and revolutions etc.) but its not a given. With China, we’ve seen it go both ways: Disaster under Mao and revitalization under Deng Xiaoping. What will leadership under Xi look like? Remains to be seen.
- mr90210 4y agoHave you lived in an authoritarian country?
- FredPret 4y agoDeng did well because he unclenched a little
- pm90 4y agoYes he did. I don't know very much about him yet, but his life seems to be a fascinating one of gently guiding a failing state (that failed on epic proportions) back into normalcy and then into rapid growth.
- chiefalchemist 4y agoIf you compared China minus 50 years with China of today then ruin doesn't look so bad. Take away The West's (citizens) bailing out their financial markets (circa 2007 / 08) and again authoritarian ruin doesn't look so bad. I'm not stumping for China or authoritarianism; only pointing out that it's early days and there's more to that picture than brash big brush judgements.
- alexashka 4y ago