• This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    China is a huge bully and is using its reputation as the world’s factory and its economic heft

    Funded by Western capitalists for the last 30 years in their never-ending greed for profits.

    Should’ve kept manufacturing in their own countries, but no. Paying their workers well means less profits.

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      9 months ago

      Funded by Western capitalists for the last 30 years in their never-ending greed for profits.

      Oddly, it’s less this and more hatred of unions and workers’ rights. They could make even more money from people who are able to afford luxuries.

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        9 months ago

        And the reason they hate those things. Is that because in a short-term it impacts their real profits.

        Greed is always a short-term outlook. No immoral greedy person ever looked at something and said, boy if I just made society better we as a whole would benefit a whole lot more. It’s always, give it to me. Give it to me naooooooow!

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          9 months ago

          Yeah. If they weren’t so evolutionarily maladaptive, they could easily have provided for their offspring for the foreseeable future of the species in a way that would be be resilient to societal and environmental changes. It really is past time that this mental illness is studied and characterized.