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Where I live there are only two opinions about USA:
USA is shiny utopia where everyone is rich, and no hardship can be found.
USA is a dumpster fire no different from Russia or China.
American natives are just a funky idea from fantasy land for both sides.
What's "a dumpster fire" about China?
Their treatment of protestors or anyone deemed 'dissident'
Good solar and renewable energy policies though (and fastest developing fusion reactor experiments on the planet)
You can also rent fucking robot legs in China. And apparently silkworm pupae are delicious.
They executed a mayor for hoarding billions in gold and cash in his properties recently. So that was cool. Itd be cooler if they just made him live in poverty forever but still pretty based
Wasn't it more because his exploitative practices made it so he could hoard all that (potato tomato, I know, but still, I'd call billionaireism with a bit of fraud worse than just the hoarding)
Yes but it is nearly impossible to amass that kind of wealth without corruption and fraud to begin with. Thats why they investigated him. They have a lot of their own problems. Many of which america has too, but thats neither here nor there.
I still think it was a really based way of handling what that parasite did and i think we should investigate and charge every billionaire.
Maybe not capital punishment. Maybe just socialize their wealth and make them a pariah, but they have to go. Our planet literally cant sustain them. Even monkeys know how to take care of a resource thief. I understand the execution, though i dont believe capital punishment should exist to that degree.
I'm quite a fan of the idea that pasing 10mil income/net worth awards them with a "congratulations you won, you have enough to live on for the rest of your life while still leaving money for your kids. Everything you make past this point goes towards hospitals, schools and the country's infrastructure." Certificate and a plaque that goes on everything they've funded.
Coffin apartments?