• OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    You can’t compete with a nation that doesn’t feel bad about exploitation of workers. If the workers cooperate then you can get a crazy amount of productivity out of them. The united states is losing its power because we aren’t willing to work as we used to. It’s a tradeoff, but I’m fine with it except that I’m not sure I trust China/Xi Jinping as the world’s superpower. He eliminated term limits when he took power, and I’m sure has no intention of going anywhere for a long time. Everyone so busy celebrating Trump looking bad, but forgetting that it could be and will be a lot worse for the western world under a Chinese dictator.

    • 3abas@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      What a stupid take! Americans are working longer and harder for less pay and disappearing benefits, with a bleak future and risk of financial ruin of you get sick or terminated.

      China is funding research universities and subsidizing Chinese students, while the US is killing scholarships and starting fights with top universities over politics.

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      5 hours ago

      The point of the article is that of you stop investing in science, you are going to fall behind in science.

    • isles@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Wait, you claim the US feels bad about the exploitation of workers? That the workers productivity hasn’t skyrocketed while wages are stagnant?

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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        2 hours ago

        Oh let him have his little China meltdown, he’s got football to watch Monday.