China! Oh, wait, no, that’s not a good example either.

shut the fuck up cracker

Why do you write like this

Three things:

1. Russia isn't communist. I don't know why I have to remind libs of this fucking constantly, it's infuriating. You remember in 1991 or so when the Soviet Union fell? Yeah, Russia hasn't been communist since then.

2. The DPRK is how it is because of the actions of the western world, especially the US. The DPRK has tried to open itself up to trade and immigration and has been stopped from doing so by the western world, especially the US. That being said, life there is fine. It's just a normal country that's suffering a bit because it has not been allowed to trade freely with the rest of the world. Maybe watch the Boy Boy video where they go to the DPRK to get haircuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E

3. What exactly is your issue with China? Can you please explain what you're actually getting at here? Lots of other people have brought forth some pretty decent evidence that life in China isn't as bad as a western lib thinks, but I am curious about your thoughts and feelings on the matter. What is your issue with China? Why would you not want to live there?

I have yet to meet an American who visited china who did not come back screaming praises for that country. When you mention their visits, they always grin even if it was a grueling work trip.

I would literally rather live in China than where I am now

Who's the one sanctioning North Korea and not letting them trade with other countries again? And yet it's still a relatively normal country.

Also bro's really complaining about China of all things and bringing up capitalist Russia as an example of "communism" 💀

if I knew Mandarin I wouldn't even be here

cope harder

China has a higher average life expectancy then the USA lol.

If capitalism is so bad then how come living conditions are worse in the exploited global south whose nations are targeted, exploited and destabilised by the imperialist core?

Same dumbass line of questioning.

You're sounding dumb as shit right now.

Russia isn't communist (and seems to be doing just fine regardless), China has an outstanding quality of life and is arguably one of the best places to live in the world, and I quite enjoyed my time in the DPRK. Many of the issues the DPRK suffers is because of sanctions placed on them, not their own government.

You are missing a few horrible rote generalizations. Would you like to say something about Cuban supermarkets to get the full experience?

Post hog

Well, I'd certainly love to live in China instead of :estonia-burning:. You are more than welcome to hit me up with a one-way tho

Hey! Communist Vsauce here, just checking in to see how you're handling your big L

Russia is communist

before you praise America or Europe, remember where that wealth comes from

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

Unequal exchange theory posits that economic growth in the “advanced economies” of the global North relies on a large net appropriation of resources and labour from the global South, extracted through price differentials in international trade. Past attempts to estimate the scale and value of this drain have faced a number of conceptual and empirical limitations, and have been unable to capture the upstream resources and labour embodied in traded goods. Here we use environmental input-output data and footprint analysis to quantify the physical scale of net appropriation from the South in terms of embodied resources and labour over the period 1990 to 2015. We then represent the value of appropriated resources in terms of prevailing market prices. Our results show that in 2015 the North net appropriated from the South 12 billion tons of embodied raw material equivalents, 822 million hectares of embodied land, 21 exajoules of embodied energy, and 188 million person-years of embodied labour, worth $10.8 trillion in Northern prices – enough to end extreme poverty 70 times over. Over the whole period, drain from the South totalled $242 trillion (constant 2010 USD). This drain represents a significant windfall for the global North, equivalent to a quarter of Northern GDP. For comparison, we also report drain in global average prices. Using this method, we find that the South’s losses due to unequal exchange outstrip their total aid receipts over the period by a factor of 30. Our analysis confirms that unequal exchange is a significant driver of global inequality, uneven development, and ecological breakdown.

China would be a good place to live. Why do you write like a Facebook boomer?