r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ActualInstance2195 • 3d ago

Video Fascinating growth made by China!

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u/Trunkfarts1000 3d ago

China is not so quietly running past America soon

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u/Citaku357 3d ago

I mean Chinese are immigrating to America not vise versa

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u/LiGuangMing1981 3d ago

Except top Chinese scientists and other highly educated people are going back to China, in large part due to the increasingly anti-China bent in the US.

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u/haoxinly 3d ago

Even American scientists are considering moving abroad.

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 3d ago

😂in what world? The average Chinese citizen has a standard of living no where close to the average American. I lived with a Chinese foreign exchange student for a year in college and it was crazy hearing what his “middle class” background entailed in China, suffice to say even people of lower socioeconomic status anywhere in the west live standards way higher. That’s not even to mention the non existent personal freedom and often draconian social norms. From a social development perspective China is still a third world country compared to the west.

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u/randec56565656 3d ago

Showing the wealthiest districts of the wealthiest cities shows the entire picture, bro.

China is all a hyper futuristic utopia and you're going to have to put aside your first hand experience and believe the TikTok.

Your Chinese friend just didn't want to show you the sick LED streetglow on his hut because he didn't want to embarrass you.

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u/InquisitorMeow 3d ago

You act as if America doesn't have meth addicted shitholes. I'm not saying which country is better but I find it amusing that Americans love to blindly shit on other countries without asking themselves why they are considered competitors if they are so shitty. The "the enemy is both strong and weak at the same time". People shits on crappy Soviet communists all the time and yet we had a cold war and space race with them. 

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u/No_Result_1553 2d ago

Nah we only blindly shit in china haha

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u/ThePeasantKingM 3d ago

That’s not even to mention the non existent personal freedom and often draconian social norms.

Though limited, I wouldn't say that Chinese people have absolutely no personal freedom.

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 3d ago

I mean that was a bit hyperbolic, but it’s not exactly functionally incorrect. My friend was pretty open about what life in China was like for average people, but there was certain things he didn’t feel comfortable talking about and he heavily implied that he was being constantly tracked while in America and that his phone was able to record him… suffice to say it’s clear the CCP keeps a pretty tight leash on people at home and abroad.

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u/iKDX 3d ago

It must be comforting, to need the world to be small so you can feel big

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u/owen-87 3d ago

Depends, its a game of pick your poison.

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u/armegedonknight 3d ago

It's easier and more profitable to run slave labor as a country. Of course we are going to be passed.

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u/7taj7 3d ago

Have you seen US prisons😂 prisoners work Pennies an hour & generate billions a year for varying industries, without prison slave labor so many US industries would collapse. Humans can literally be leased to corporations. Chinese general population is 4 times bigger than the US, yet the US (most free nation on earth by the way) has more prisoners.

Not to even mention how many illegal immigrants are exploited by corporations, construction & farming collapse over night without illegal immigrants. Also, AMERICA WAS BUILT BY SLAVES. The US empire is still built on exploiting the resources & populations of societies all over the global over hundreds of years till this day. China has plenty of genuine issues but cmon.

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u/hawaii_funk 3d ago

It's easier and more profitable to run slave labor as a country

I can't tell which country you're referring to. federal minimum wage is still $7.25 in the US btw

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u/cocanosa 3d ago

AS IF THE UNITED STATES WERENT GONNA TAKE ANY CHANCE TO RUN SLAVE LABOR, LIKE, YOU GUYS LITERALLY JUST ABOLISHED SLAVERY SOME YEARS AGO AND ARE STILL MAD YOU HAD TO LMFAOOOOOOOOO GET REKT BY THE CHINESE VIVA LA CHINA

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u/Interesting_Smile_30 3d ago

Says the person whose country had slavery for most of its history and still does in terms of the disparity between the working and the ruling class

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u/LivingRich2685 3d ago

Bro you're delusional. It really is funny that the idea of China simply being better is so unfathomable to you. keep crying lmao

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u/Annonomon 3d ago edited 3d ago

Better in terms of what? Worker and Civil rights? Freedom of speech? Pretty lights and tall buildings aren’t a substitutes for these. Every country has its pros and cons, China is better than the US in many respects, but to say either is categorically better across the board is a fallacy. However, if I arrived in either country with nothing and had to start from the bottom, I would choose the US

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u/pavlovianpsycho 3d ago

It honestly seems like rights are stripped or dwindling in both places. But with the benefit of low crime rates and massive economic growth in one place compared to the opposite in the other.

If one arrived in either country as a billionaire, your choice might make sense, but otherwise it sounds like you run a serious risk of being deported.

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u/Born-Media6436 3d ago

Checks notes…..communism not good. Freedom good.

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u/blazurp 3d ago

Yup, the American for-profit prisons know all about profitable slave labor

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u/POPcultureItsMe 3d ago

what slave labour ? Can you pleaase give some sources about this ?

P.S let me not remind you about US wanting to use prisioners as slave labour.

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u/Cidraque 3d ago

Good bot.

Yeah they are all slaves, the lucky ones work for tips.