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Originally Posted by freebeard
How can a libertarian middle class persist under possibly the most authoritarian government, after Australia?
Survival is a pretty low bar.
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It's that commi-capitalist hybrid government, predicted by my Political Science professor in 1976.
Xi Jenping is incentivizing rabid consumer capitalism to drug, not only the Chinese, but all who purchase Chinese products in the global marketplace. It was found to be a more potent opiate of the masses than religion. Exquisite social engineering! Workers never see it coming.
When you have disposable income, appetites for the novel are quickly satisfied by those lower on the economic food chain.
Fruit bat bites fruit. Pangolin eats fruit. Wild Meat Market entrepreneur catches pangolin. Yuppy buys pangolin. Yuppy eats pangolin. Viola! COVID-19.
Add commercial airliner. Rinse. Repeat.
