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CCP does whatever it takes to avoid high level unemployment which causes riots. That's why going GDP sounds bad for CCP. Do you really think CCP cares about ho
by gsky 3y ago
CCP does whatever it takes to avoid high level unemployment which causes riots. That's why going GDP sounds bad for CCP.
Do you really think CCP cares about housing affordability?
Either it's a war or roads to nowhere to keep their population busy.
- whimsicalism 3y ago> Do you really think CCP cares about housing affordability? Yes, absolutely so
- pphysch 3y agoKeeping people "busy" (distracted) in 2023 is really easy. Just give them a smartphone and unlimited Internet access. So I'm not sure your theory holds up.
- gsky 3y agoHow are they gonna feed their families and what would they do if they can't?
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoI don’t know about that. Social media in the West has encouraged behaviors (greater outness of LGBT, advocacy for minorities, new subcultures like furries) that the CCP feels, at least in the Chinese context, would pose a risk to social stability and harmony. China expends huge effort on keeping its citizens’ internet activity tightly censored and surveilled. Its authorities might even have preferred that the Chinese population did not have smartphones with unlimited internet and were instead kept more atomized, but the cat is already out of the bag and the internet is too important to the economy.
- pphysch 3y agoUnlimited as in no time/data limit, not "unlimited Western propaganda"
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoYes, I understood that.