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Rising Prices Are Bad, but Plummeting Prices Are Worse: Americans may envy China’s deflation. They shouldn’t (CW: The Atlantic) (archive.ph)
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Living in China is getting cheaper. Because rents in my neighborhood in central Beijing are dropping, my wife and I pressed our landlord to reduce ours by $140 a month in a new lease that we signed last month. He wasn’t too happy about it, but he’s lucky that we didn’t move out. Given the desperation of local landlords, we probably could’ve saved another $500 a month had we switched to a comparable apartment nearby.

BUT AT WHAT COST?

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[–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You're wasting your time, I think that account is a troll, they actively reject any call to examine Georgism critically and refuse to read Marx. I say "troll" rather than bit account, because they don't back down and admit it is a bit.

If they are actually being sincere, I think they just stumbled upon Georgism's wikipedia page and it was the first time they ever thought about class consciousness and have made a connection between this nonsense idealism and actual class struggle.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Sure, it's low hanging fruit though, even if it's an intentionally annoying joke account someone who just heard about Georgism will read that and go ah, ok, moving on. I've got that one in the chamber so it's an easy one but yeah, I'm not getting those ten minutes back.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Anyway I enjoyed writing that, which is never a waste of time.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    That's true, even if they weren't going to change their mind it still provides good information for other people to read and learn. Georgism is pretty obscure (for a reason) so people might not be too familiar with it (I know I wasn't, it was just one of those "pre-marxist leftist ideas" to me, and that's about all I knew about it)

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