There is one mega-union (the only permitted one) with officials appointed by the CCP. It’s essentially a sham, like the non-CCP parties in Congress that are nominally a type of opposition but can never hold any real power.
And yes, it is ironic and sad. Nordic countries are more communist than China is. China doesn’t even have truly free healthcare like Canada etc.
Yeah, it’s bad. There are fewer worker protections and unions are illegal.
Hilarious. The MAGA movement is like a fractal of grifts.
All three were also subtler and more skillful writers than Atwood – Butler in particular is criminally underappreciated. Her stories were far ahead of their time, exploring ideas about race and gender in a way that really makes you think rather than bludgeoning you with it. She should be a household name.
Hey, I’d be honoured to have coffee with her. She’s a legend. That doesn’t make HMT not a YA book. There’s a reason it’s part of so many high school curricula alongside Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World and 1984 and Catcher in the Rye. I’m not saying those are bad books by any means, but they aren’t especially sophisticated. I had the same problem with the much-hyped Babel which, although I align politically with it, was as subtle as being hit in the face with a sledgehammer engraved with “colonialism bad”.
In large part yes, but younger generations are also not especially motivated to have kids when they already have to deal with a soul-crushing workplace (much worse than in the west).
Gonna leave this here from a reply I made to a similar thread weeks ago. China’s demographics are in very bad shape.
Yeah I’m out, I’m not getting pulled into a r/books tier argument about what is and is not written for teenagers. I’ve already had my fill of those on the other site.
If that’s the case, there’s any number of more overtly anti-Christian books out there that he could have criticised. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it seems unlikely.
I don’t see how you can label the premise as even somewhat juvenile.
It’s basically YA, and one of those books that people cite so much that it gets obnoxious (“1984 waSn’T suPpoSeD tO be aN inStrucTioN mAnuaL”)
Norm was well-read, so if I were to guess he objected purely on literary grounds (the somewhat juvenile premise, the extreme lack of subtlety, etc.). He liked Russian classics which tend to be more layered.
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Absolutely. It’s like how if you’re poor and crazy, you’re crazy; but if you’re rich and crazy, you’re eccentric.
Well that’s good news — at least it’s one-and-done and won’t divert resources and money from SNW.
Whaaa… Wasn’t this going to be a show? When did that happen?
My expectations for this show could not be any lower.
I see the media’s extreme reluctance in calling white people “terrorists” continues.
Their premise is that the free market drove up the price of houses. Deregulation that is to say end of social housing programs led to this.
Yes and no - lack of supply led to this. It doesn’t really matter where the supply comes from. More social housing would certainly be good though.
Is that not neo-liberal? High construction costs come mainly from high cost of labor. The market driving up costs isn’t free market?
Do… do you think that business owners like having higher labour costs? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone on the left complain about higher worker wages.
What protectionist policies are there?
Try building a residential property and see how many hoops you have to jump through.
When have property values been under threat of dropping.
If supply were to increase, prices will drop. This is good for everyone except those who think their house is a retirement fund.
They’ve been ever increasing due to market demand.
You forgot half of the “supply and demand” equation.
You say “lack of good investment”. Others say investors determined housing was a prime investment.
Exactly… Whereas housing shouldn’t be an investment. If its value outpaces inflation, it becomes less and less affordable to new buyers.
Exactly, especially to placate a country with no electronics manufacturing industry to speak of. How would Apple even meet that 40% target, and how is that number defined? Is it by % of material cost, or size, or weight, or what?
Blackmail is a terrible way to attract investment to your country. This is like Elon suing advertisers who left Twitter after he told them to fuck off.
Surplus of young single men?