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I'm a Chinese, i don't give a fuck about the grant number comparisons between China and US and the tariff childish number games right now, good or bad or ugly. None of macro stuff is my business. But a humble human can always easily recognize the very apparent history patterns. Just think it in a thermal dynamics perspective- how many hours do an American work? you know that actual figure for an average Chinese? I can't tell you a real statistical one but let me tell you my subjective experience, every middle class in the major cities are working their shitting ass off like over 70h to keep off the existence anxiety, paying off mortgages or competing in raising their children. Most of them are not enjoying life even in the modern cyberpunk world where you have every fancy technology that you can't even imagine 10 years ago, the job is to exist. If it's already too difficult for you as a free world citizen to comprehensive, here's more that blows your mind- nobody blames the government. nobody is fucking blaming the government. nobody is fucking blaming the fucking government. Again, it's not statistical, it's just observations from me as a Chinese who's parents is still living in one of the poorest rural areas of China. Oh yeah, a Chinese peasant. So what do i wanna say? China is a very low entropy system because of the unimaginable extra energy of Chinese working classes put into it either willingly or unwillingly. What you think??
The U.S. and China are not aligned in values for many years, and this is an issue coming to a head. The USA will value individual freedoms even over cheap labor and goods. Unfortunately this is going to come at a great cost to both USA and China, but I hope somehow the people work to resolve their different government views. It won’t be a government that leads unification. Both China and USA people believe in proof of work more than proof of war, but there are hawks in our government who would rather obstruct and destroy than build.
Days ago when all we got from China were drink umbrellas. Then we industrialized them. Why wouldn’t they think that one day thru their hard labors that they too could live the kind of lives we have here in America. But what if they achieved that, who then would provide a cheap workforce that would provide for our excessive needs. We would be constantly challenged to find the next community that thru their hard cheap work will support our excessive needs.
Neutral global reserve currency is not a CBDC, or a system of credit, or a metal that happens to have high concentrations here and low concentrations there. The only neutral global reserve currency is bitcoin.
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Bitcoin is the only hope for value alignment only if the majority of people taste the bitterness of a strong state machine but weak individuals. sad truth.
I'm very pessimistic that American people and Chinese people would come to a common ground to view each other apart from the bullshits their government or Media is feeding them🥲
Can Cash App at least catch up with Alipay in terms of capability?
an American friend of mine who lived in china for around 10 years told me he thinks 2 of the most nationalistic countries in the world are China and America. no wonder the two peoples despise each other they much