politics

Americans: China bad because authoritarian surveillance state in exchange for welfare 

Also Americans: let’s do an authoritarian surveillance state. No welfare tho

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I’m not following. What did you think I was saying?

[in exchange of welfare] assumes there is no such thing in the US

americans got moar of everything, that’s welfare

The poorest US state has the same GDP as the wealthiest EU country

But the chart you shared doesn’t show that. It just shows GDP. Which in highly unequal societies like the US is almost more convoluted than helpful. Americans did not get more of everything. Most got almost nothing, despite paying more than anyone in the world. Either way my point wasn’t “China good, US bad.” It was “Americans say this. Americans do this.”