@HundredCHours @TrueSlazac @rowanfornow 90% of families in India own their homes too. It’s not a meaningful statistic to measure wealth or development.
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Interested in economics, politics, and film. Liberal.
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@TrueSlazac @rowanfornow 9 out of 10 families in China own their homes
The whole 1.6x richer is meaningless when you look at the average Chinese' disposable income
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how many decades until we accept that China is rich now. like come on they're at least Russia tier.
Global Statistics@Globalstats11
Strange Map: The Rich North and The Poor South
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@AmanitaFugax Marxists define “working class” as anyone who sells their labor for a living.
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I am losing my mind here, what do you mean working for your wages makes you working class?
If you’re a doctor clearing 300k/yr there is no way a regular person would describe you as “working class”
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YC retweetledi
australia and new zealand were settled 50,000 years apart
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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@3xcalibaneur It just means respect/honor, these people think it’s some deep philosophical concept for some reason
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it's a little weird how much y'all wanted every problematic account to be Indian but whatever
Jewish pashtuns with attitude 🇦🇫✡️@midnight_b65055
My biggest shock is alot of the big Israeli accounts we used to accuse of being Indian turned out to actually be Israeli
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@HMBrough_ Dismal female labor force participation? When were you last here?
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The disturbing part about India is how it seems to combine the worst of Korea (hagwons, chaebols, cratering fertility) with the worst of MENA societies (retrograde social norms and dismal female labor force participation).
Mycenaean Tax Auditor🏺⚔️@bronzeageclerk
Most of my batchmates in the 2000s were South Indyans who had spent almost a decade of their lives locked up in massive JEE coaching blocks where they reported not seeing the sun for weeks on end.
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@DirteeeMartini In US universities it's part of macroeconomic theory. I took it in my first semester.
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@Antikeburg Undergrad economics math is not that difficult. Not sure about Germany, but in the US, most courses only require introductory calculus and statistics (econometrics). I’d look further into course requirements.
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I don’t know what to study, I’m great at economics but bad at maths 😭
I like politics, geography and history but I also want a job
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There’s a beautiful English word for this, actually: “ethnonarcissism”
m@chmpgnsoshalist
urdu has a word for the pain of separation that contains, within it, the assumption that reunion is cosmically possible. while english is so spiritually bankrupt it can name the ache but not imagine its end.
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@DethTrader @TrueSlazac China has achieved what they have because of capitalism.
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@TrueSlazac This is undeniably good (also important to point out heavily influenced by China's improvements over this time), this doesn't mean roughly 2/3rds of the population isn't heavy exploited today to make that standard of living possible in the global north.
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The highest standards of living in human history?
Xenocosmography@xenocosmography
If Neoliberal Multiculturalism led to this, what use was your Neoliberal Multiculturalism?
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@DolphinMossad @JettTrj82099 “People should not shit and piss on public transport”
“You are racist and classist”
This is the state of leftism in 2026
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what race and class do you believe “people should not shit on public transit” is racist and classist against
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@_tokuninai @3xcalibaneur Shenzhen was chosen as the location for China’s first SEZ in part because of its proximity to Hong Kong.
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@3xcalibaneur Yasheng Huang explained in his capitalism etc etc book how finance markets from Hong Kong kickstarted Chinese entrepreneurship in the 90s.
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It’s become largely apparent that the average communist’s understanding of macroeconomics is literally this image.
(• ˕ •マ.ᐟ ★@Y40IFRQTTING
The collapse of manufacturing in the West is misattributed to labour rights by the same people who caused it; the real reason is financialization. You either have manufacturing or financial services. Financial services are the death spiral of a modern economy.
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Mamdani committed the one sin that the American left cannot forgive: he won an election
Will 🦥 Menaker@willmenaker
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@MesoAnglic Why do you think that Vietnam will be the last developed country?
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The last developed country in the world will be Vietnam. After that, it was a good run but a country thats currently poor will likely stay poor for quire a while. There won't be any more Vietnams, certainly no more Chinas.
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Being a liberal and a globalist in 2026 has gotta feel like what being a chud conservative felt in the immediate aftermath of Jan 6
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@himganj153 Extension of the “women don’t know how technology works” stereotype
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Why is this a thing? That women apparently cannot torrent?
Purvi@shayar_ka_khwab
Fourth wave feminism : downloading movie from torrent without help.
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“in my culture, we really value food and family time! also the women are really crazy and the men are very toxic!”
Jelena@Feralfairy13
Everyone wants an Eastern European wife until they realize how emotionally unstable we are
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is cuba gonna be the first society to just cease existing due to emigration
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@Dale052902 @LittleKeegs0 @missmayn “Demilitarize the police”
“Defund the police” does not send the message you want across.
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@LittleKeegs0 @missmayn Then you come up with a 3-4 word slogan that can be repeated at protests that sends that message across
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@number_pizza111 He thinks that industrial policy is the same as having a centrally-planned economy
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To be fair to Hasan, this was actually a reasonable assessment of China the 1980s. They had half their economy operating on centrally planned prices and production quotas, and the other half on international market prices and demand. The issue is that was abolished 35 years ago.
yeet@Awk20000
Hasan talks China and what he’s loves about it so far “It’s sick..abundance style consumption paired up with a centrally controlled economy..u have 1950s Soviet era building blocks next to the Gucci store..if ever a country that repped things I enjoyed”
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