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But at what cost!? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 5 months ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/memes@lemmygrad.ml
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[-] bleepingblorp@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 5 months ago

I can tell you what the cost is.

Bourgeois influence.

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 5 months ago

Where? In the country where they took Jack Ma's company away from him? In the country where a CPC representative has to sit on the board of directors of every company? In the country where the punishment for embezzling millions is death?

The existence of wealthy people does not mean those wealthy people have control. They have easy lives, riches, opportunities, sure, but they don't have to have influence in how the country is run.

[-] Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 5 months ago

No, the joke is that they are getting rid of bourgeois influence in exchange for this stuff.

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Oh right. I was misunderstanding everything yesterday. One of those days...

[-] Jefferu_Nintendomoto@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 5 months ago

This image is just gonna get a few more inches stapled onto it every year, isn't it?

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 5 months ago

this meme is never gonna die

[-] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 5 months ago

The meme will live forever, but at what cost??

[-] indred0@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

这个模因万岁!

[-] MatBC@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 5 months ago

Out of legitimate curiosity, what are the alleged costs they usually point at?

[-] PanArab@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 5 months ago

Yellow peril

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 5 months ago

Are you asking about coherence and reason in the narrative? What are you, a Russian bot?

[-] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 months ago

I always understood it to mean the "cost" is just more capitalist accumulation. "They could be enriching their/our bourgeoisie, but instead they do this?!"

[-] MatBC@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago

So I gather from this answers that none of this news articles never articulate any concrete cost that they alleged? Because I know that anything they could say would be skin deep at most but never anything substantiated but I expected something, I'll try to track down some of this news and check

[-] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Yep. At best they could argue that these decisions come with opportunity costs - China could have made more profit by allocating its money elsewhere.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 5 months ago

The west when making crap tons of weapons and bailing banks isn't free: this is fine

The west when making things better for everyone isn't free: capitalist coping not mad

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

But at what cost?

[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 months ago

at what cost? it seems that it's a lesser cost than you anyways!

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