I can tell you what the cost is.
Bourgeois influence.
Where? In the country where they took Jack Ma’s company away from him? In the country where a CPC representative has to sit on the board of directors of every company? In the country where the punishment for embezzling millions is death?
The existence of wealthy people does not mean those wealthy people have control. They have easy lives, riches, opportunities, sure, but they don’t have to have influence in how the country is run.
No, the joke is that they are getting rid of bourgeois influence in exchange for this stuff.
Oh right. I was misunderstanding everything yesterday. One of those days…
This image is just gonna get a few more inches stapled onto it every year, isn’t it?
this meme is never gonna die
The meme will live forever, but at what cost??
这个模因万岁！
Out of legitimate curiosity, what are the alleged costs they usually point at?
Are you asking about coherence and reason in the narrative? What are you, a Russian bot?
Yellow peril
I always understood it to mean the “cost” is just more capitalist accumulation. “They could be enriching their/our bourgeoisie, but instead they do this?!”
So I gather from this answers that none of this news articles never articulate any concrete cost that they alleged? Because I know that anything they could say would be skin deep at most but never anything substantiated but I expected something, I’ll try to track down some of this news and check
Yep. At best they could argue that these decisions come with opportunity costs - China could have made more profit by allocating its money elsewhere.
The west when making crap tons of weapons and bailing banks isn’t free:
The west when making things better for everyone isn’t free:
But at what cost?
at what cost? it seems that it’s a lesser cost than you anyways!
