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I'm in China, and I think you're wrong. The situation is absolutely catastrophic and we're slowly falling down the cliff. Those GDP numbers are BS, in the US, F

by xwolfi 3y ago

I'm in China, and I think you're wrong. The situation is absolutely catastrophic and we're slowly falling down the cliff. Those GDP numbers are BS, in the US, France or China, since they count public spending. Anyone can build ghost cities for billions, add it to GDP and show a growth of GDP: meant nothing more than a big dick number. Truth is when they ask a random dude on TV if he's ok with drinking Japanese radioactive water (the trendy distraction these days), he replies that he didn't intend to make children so he doesn't care if he loses fertility due to contaminated water... Nobody gives a fuck about shit, we all pretend to work while they pretend to pay us, we get jailed for months in our own homes when there's a stupid sneeze in the city and get all released under the "it's just a fever, wait a few days" admonitions of the same doctors who captured us when we all get it at the same time, we're either completely ignoring the communist bullshit and doing nothing they expect us to do, or totally believing in it and doing only the BS they expect us to do, which produces nothing. Kids are unemployed, elderlies are fascists, politicians are spineless and factories impotent. The GDP growth is as real as the president's official salary.

kwere 3y ago
>our own homes our leased (up to 70 years) homes
- xwolfi 3y ago
  This is the same as in England, the leasehold vs freehold system is difficult to differentiate in practice, a bit like common law vs civil law. You buy a house, there are expectations it's yours. Each time it's been tested the government had a choice between murdering desperate owners or accepting to just renew on the same terms. They chose to renew. Freehold offer no more security: I come from a civil law, freehold country, well, the government can seize houses it wants at low cost any time anyway. Sometimes to build a highway, sometimes to rent to immigrants.

by xwolfi 3y ago

kwere 3y ago

>our own homes our leased (up to 70 years) homes

xwolfi 3y ago
This is the same as in England, the leasehold vs freehold system is difficult to differentiate in practice, a bit like common law vs civil law. You buy a house, there are expectations it's yours. Each time it's been tested the government had a choice between murdering desperate owners or accepting to just renew on the same terms. They chose to renew. Freehold offer no more security: I come from a civil law, freehold country, well, the government can seize houses it wants at low cost any time anyway. Sometimes to build a highway, sometimes to rent to immigrants.