Quote (TiStuff @ Mar 17 2023 09:40pm)
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Sure, China built some awful buildings 30 or 40 years ago. Now, they don't.
You can scour the internet for every bad story about China. Surprised you didn't jump to the obvious one to
and bring up the tainted formula scandal from 2008.
But this conversation is about political imagination and making a better future. China unambiguously does that, whereas broad swaths of the populations in Western countries regularly answer in polls that they feel their lives will only get worse. That their children will be poorer than they are.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/21/many-americans-think-children-will-be-financially-worse-off-than-their-parents.htmlQuote
More than two-thirds (68%) of U.S. respondents said they think today’s children will be financially worse off as adults than their parents, up from 60% in 2019. Only 32% think children will be better off.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/young-canadians-less-confident-in-financial-future-than-a-year-ago-rbc-poll-1.1887274Quote
A new poll by RBC has found that Canadians aged 18 to 34 are much less confident today about their financial futures than they were a year ago.
Eighteen per cent of Canadians in that age group said they are confident in their financial future, down from 31 per cent a year earlier.
Contrast that to China:
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201809/25/WS5ba97ba7a310c4cc775e7d4b.htmlQuote
Ipsos, a France-headquartered research firm, said in a press release that it conducted 40,506 interviews between July 9 and Aug. 22 in 15 countries including Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Britain, India, Mexico, Russia and the United States.
The study found that Chinese adults and youth are the most optimistic across the study about the future of their country with 88 percent of adults and 94 percent of youth. Towards the future of the world, they also show relative optimism with 85 percent of adults and 90 percent of youth.
Your inclination to try and tear others down by scouring the internet for years or even decades old nonsense is a very Western attitude. Since very few Westerners can honestly say that they expect the politicians to represent them, that they expect their children to be happy and safe, that they expect to retire securely and enjoy old age, the best sort of palliative they can come up with is to demonize people who are trying to do better.
When China has a problem, it addresses it, it improves. That just doesn't happen in the West, anymore.