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Things have gotten better and progress has been made from times past, it just seems worse now because we have more access to information. We've come far, and have further to go!

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (31 children)

besides this, China did a huge job on getting people out of poverty - if you like or not

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Mass producing shit at inhuman factories with deaths by the millions. I guess you're not poor if you're just dead.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Technically correct. A dead person is neither rich nor poor.

[–] Miqo 11 points 1 year ago

So that's what happened to the middle class.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The best kind of correct

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (38 children)

Look at the statistics. I am not lying. You can complain, but that are facts.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If you look at the history of western countries industrializing it didn't look much better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Life expectancy has also gone up. You’re lying through your fucking teeth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe I'm too naive, but even if you hate a country for its economic and political choices, you can still be glad their working class population is getting out of poverty and It's not like they are getting richer by slaving a whole continent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah... you can like some things and still hate everything else about it. Not everything is black or white - but some don't like grey-scales.

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