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[-] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago

You're supposed to produce nothing and make money from that, like the US does!

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Some might read your post as an exaggeration, but a good amount of mainstream economists think exactly like this and treat the idea that productivity is important as a revelation.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

You would think that any economist who actually wanted to be successful would try to understand the shortfalls of capitalism too by reading Capital.

Instead, "wait, if people don't make enough money to buy treats, then the won't buy treats??", is an actual revelation somehow.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

so much of this stuff happens over multiple decades. That is enough time to establish your career and be in the second half or nearing retirement. So being right isnt what’s going to pay the bills. Going along with the orthodoxy will. If the incentives were different maybe we’d see orthodoxy be more in line with reality.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

i dont get it, why is there so much whining then by failure to "increase productivity"? firms dont invest in tools & training and they still want productivity line to go up right? or am i missing something?

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Gotta look at the definition of "productivity" people are using. Often it's just productivity = revenue / number of employees.

Defined that way, you can fire 20% of employees and make the remaining employees do more work for the same pay. That causes a 20% increase in productivity because suddenly each employee is doing more work.

Doesn't actually mean they want to make more things.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

And of course, there's nothing "unproductive" about having a whole slew of unemployed people who have been pushed out of the workforce as a reserve army of labor.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

They're producing too much so we can't profit from an artificial scarcity noooooOOoOOoo

[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

Libs 15 years ago: dumb Chinese over producing housing, you know they're sitting empty, right??? How can you make money from housing if there's such a surplus???

China now: Ghost cities provide affordable housing for young people. They have become functioning, normal cities

Americans/Australians/Brits now: will rent or live with parents until inheriting property. If they're lucky.

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

Conjured out of nothing and lived in by seemingly no one, China’s so-called ghost cities became the subject of Western media fascination a decade ago. Photos of these huge urban developments went viral online, presenting scenes of compelling weirdness: empty apartment towers stranded in a sea of mud; broad boulevards devoid of cars or people; over-the-top architectural showpieces with no apparent function.

Bloomberg spinning "they built towns and then got people into them" as an ineffable oriental mystery, lol.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

"Why would you build new things when you could just let the old buildings dilapidate instead? Truly the Celestials have a mind unknowable to the White Westerner."

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

You know us inscrutable Chinese. Unreadable, unknowable, unpredictable yellow men from the Orient.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I gotta play some city builders this weekend

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I cannot stop building socialist utopias after installing some good mods on cities skylines. It might not be literally socialist in game but in my heart it is.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

I remember thst when I knew less about China and had more propaganda brain and seeing the results come to fruition at roughly the same rate of time I got China pilled was neat. The contrast of my own city wasn't, landlords profits doubled wages stagnated.

[-] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Being Chinese must be so fucking dope. Like, I'm sure there's lots of total bullshit to deal with, there's no where that doesn't kinda suck to live a little bit, but can you imagine seeing things getting better as you grew up? The idea of living through an improvement instead of an historically shaaaaaarp decline is something I envy and feel cheated out of, cause I have been cheated out of it. Quality of life for the more privileged here may be better but that's locked out for me and for those who can get the bag, their children won't, the bag is empty. I'd rather live somewhere that's maybe some degree materially worse off for my monetary class that has any degree of hope for a future than this shit hesp I live in where I can see the copper wire Bek g removed already.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Its not like western capitalism didn't have its own "golden age", the US between 1950 and 1970s, I'm sure you're aware how boomers bought everything specially cheap housing etc.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, hope for the future was pretty normal for a bit and expecting it to stay that way shouldn't be too much to ask. The fact the word doomer even exists is an indictment of capitalist failure.

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[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

She's in China to beg the PRC to buy more USD bonds.

This is like your deadbeat neighbor coming to borrow more money while lecturing you about how stupid you are for not buying a monkey jpg nft.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It would be something if no one bought US bonds anymore. BDS America.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

The situation in China's solar panel sector may be worse, where overproduction pushed prices down 42% last year to levels 60% below the cost of comparable U.S.-made products. China now accounts for 80% of global production capacity, and major solar producers are continuing to build factories, backed by provincial and local subsidies.

how is this a bad thing?!!!!!!!!

OH MY FUCKING GOD

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Lmao I was writing papers in college about how whatever country did this was gonna have a modern day industrial revolution and control geopolitics in the next decade.

At the time I was still a starry eyed lib so I thought the us should do it, glad to see a more moral country was smart enough to see this coming.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Let's double down on fossil fuels just to spite China.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You joke, but you gotta wonder if the Pentagon doesn't have "Operation World Domination" in a C: drive and the first step is to destroy the climate until you can export corn slurry at a gagillion dollars.

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"We see a growing threat of money-losing firms that are going to have to sell off their production somewhere," a senior U.S. Treasury official said of overproduction in key Chinese sectors.

Won't someone think of the venture capitalists?!

Free trade is only good when the U.S. is the one profiting off of cheap labor, when they're facing competition that's a no bully and you're breaking the rules.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago

No you see, good economy is when speculation bubbles and bad economy is when making shit that people actually need.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Things have really been settling in. Even as a kid, this is what I saw what economics are like. Make something? Have a service? Sell it. Sure, there's some rules to not step over for certain labor or environmental reasons, but that's okay because only the dishonest would forgo those rules.

But no, that philosophy is....alien here. All based on speculation, even the whole "american dream" propaganda of homeownership emphasizes that real estate is "the perfect investment" to "build wealth"....even though that wealth you build is built on the backs of future generations.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Land value is built on the backs of current generations, especially renters. Even single home owners who do not own rental properties gain property value on the backs of renters in their community. Renters pay the same local taxes, taxes pay for local services and infrastructure, local services and infrastructure increases land values. All land owners see a return on their tax liabilities expressed through land value while renters see none.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The whole homeownership as wealth building never made sense to me. I mean I don't pay rent, sure, there's less of a leech thing going on so maybe I get get more money. But how is it an investment? It's not like my singular house rises in price and everyone else's doesn't. Great, my house is now, in the twilight years of my life, worth 900% more than what I bought it for. I can now sell it, have 900% profit, then immediatly spend all that 900% profit on buying some other dwelling that also rose 900% in price

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Inheritance.

If I inherited 1,000,000 dollars cash, let’s say after taxes and assuming I didn’t inherit the money through a trust or some other tax evasion scheme, in 2010, that purchasing power today is worth roughly 70%. A million dollar house would be worth significantly more over time just from rising property values, and in addition, really the major component, is that there are inheritance laws that favor passing on property as a way of creating generational wealth.

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[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

wait, no, I thought of a better analogy. China is spamming a difficult-to-block combo and obliterating the US who is just button mashing, and the US is holding back tears while screaming YOURE CHEATING, THATS CHEATING

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

A bit of a correction: combos are performed after a character is launched by a combo-starting move, at which point they can't block anymore.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as combo, is in fact, true/combo, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, true+combo.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here i got u. Marvel terms.

After aerial jousting for some time China has finally made the US block in the corner. The US attempts a pushblock but China read the late pushblock and responds with a late empty trydash into low. After a 30+hit combo America is let out only to be hit by meaty Doom missles post-back tech (a terrible tech direction in the corner). China uses the missle pressure to tri dash high twice and empty dash 1 frame grab. Pops x factor and kills. Now to see what mixup they do on Europe's incoming.

The US is still saying "...I was holding back..." in disbelief as Europe eats a 4 layer incoming mix.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

And the Smash version:

FALCOOOOOON PUNCH

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

really seems like all the loser failchildren of wealthy parents who never told them no are having a difficult time coping with losing. Stop winning, my mommy says you have to stop beating me at economic production. powercry-2

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Please Mr. Xi stop thinking about climate change for just one second! Don’t you know that by subsidizing a green energy transition you’re hurting American oil executive bonuses?! That’s not fair!!!

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

Yellen will seek to convey her view that the excess production is unhealthy for China and that there is a growing drumbeat of concern about it in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Mexico and other major economies.

Feels good to be recognized as a major economy finally. Get fucked Canada!

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fucking racist chauvinist gall

She should be asking China what would be good considering they're handing us our asses

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

it is april 5 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a problem you'd want to have.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

mods please remove I don't think Janet Yellen is notable enough to be posted here maddened

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Mr Xi, slow down these productive forces

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

CHINA, PLEASE FEED THIS WOMAN MORE HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS. PLEASE

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Plaza Accords 2: Break in Beijing.

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