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> Their favourite iPhone is made by communists China has been a capitalist state since the 70s with a turn to State Capitalism in the 2010s. Furthermore, China
by alephnerd 1y ago
> Their favourite iPhone is made by communists
China has been a capitalist state since the 70s with a turn to State Capitalism in the 2010s. Furthermore, China's leadership remains anti-Welfarism, with Xi himself making speeches against expanding the already weak social safety net.
> Every day Capitalists use public sanitation, running water, Education, GPS, police and prosecution but they imagine they could exist in a mad max world instead of dying of cholera
Capitalism doesn't preclude public infrastructure. That's just a facile argument.
> the LED
The modern LED was developed by Texas Instruments and Bell Labs in the 1950s.
> like satellites
Both the US and the USSR knew about how to launch satellites in space by the mid-1950s. It was the USSR that chose to prioritize it, and the US that chose to deprioritize it.
- ClumsyPilot 1y ago> Capitalism doesn't preclude public infrastructure. That's just a facile argument I am measuring by the same yardstick as the OP. If taxes to pay for public services are good capitalism, then you can’t call Europe socialist. > The modern LED was developed by… Whatever, take Hyperbaric welding. Will a western oil company refuse to use it because it was invented in USSR? The fundamental accusation of the OP is totally hypocritical.
- alephnerd 1y ago> I am measuring by the same yardstick as the OP. Fair enough! Didn't see their argument. Yea that was dumb.