Most certainly easy to believe. China is not that far off from DPRK anymore. Look at what they did during covid (welding people in their apartments, killing all pets, arresting people for curfew violations, etc). Look at their typical workday (14x6) and wage (a few $/day). How do think we get cheap products like $25 microwaves and $15 coffee makers. CCP wants a slave population, not citizens.
Comment on China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty
qooqie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
1 billion people in China living in poverty?? I find that almost hard to believe that’s 66% of their population
grayman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ttmrichter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]ikidd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TIL Chinese people are “brown skinned”.
kzhe@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I assume he means from the point of view of the people in the media he’s criticizing.
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Kind of ironic that they accuse everybody else of being racist, while ignoring the fact Chinese people are not a racial monolith, and there is racism within China
TwinTusks@bitforged.space 10 months ago
I know right, we are yellow or fair
viking@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I’m in China as well and you’re talking out of your ass, or arrived post-covid.
I’ve experienced lockdowns, pet killings and welded doors; know plenty of 996 companies, and the local salaries are garbage.
ttmrichter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I arrived in China 2001.
I experienced the harshest and largest lockdown in all of history: Wuhan, January 23rd, 2020. A real lockdown, not the cosplay bullshit you experienced outside of China. (Yes, this is me saying you’ve never fucking set foot in the country.)
The rest you’re just flat-out lying about. Sorry, Sparky. Did pet killings happen? Yes. They were not the mass shit that the press you’re so obviously reciting acts like they were. Did some doors get welded? Yes. But nowhere near you and, again, nowhere near in the masses the press you’re basing your lies on made it seem like. The local salaries are garbage iff you’re a fuckwit sitting in the west applying western prices to Chinese salaries. (Which, naturally, you are, good little fuckwit liar that you are.) And you’ve changed your tune from 14 hours to 12 hours really fucking quickly there, Sparky, not to mention using the proper slang only after I gave it to you.
So yeah, you’re just a west-dwelling fuckwit lying about being here. Go toddle off in your China Watcher corners and play with the rest of the intellectual children you belong with. There’s a good boy.
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Either way I find it funny that the same anti westerners who say China is fair to its workers, are the same ones who always mention that my phone is made by slaves. Sometimes in the same discussion.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Bruh. Are you smoking crack?
Your view of how COVID-19 mitigation worked is skewed by breathless, click-baiting media reports (known by most as “lies”) made by people who could not, at a very deep, very primal level, admit to even themselves that brown-skinned people outperformed white-skinned people by orders of magnitude and made up shit to placate their humiliation.
What are you even talking about?
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wow, a real, live tankie!
ttmrichter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The CPC […] is by no means a good government and the people in it are not good people at any level above the community cadre level […]
They’re vile authoritarians […]
Do you actually fucking READ before reacting you utter fuckwit?!
Talking with Americans is like talking with ADHD-addled toddlers for fuck’s sake!
iopq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was in China during the pandemic. In 2022 everyone got COVID. Literally everyone in every big city.
So they should have opened up after omega became the dominant variant. No point in locking people down when they lost anyway.
It was a good response in the beginning, but they doubled down on it for three years
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The CPC (note the correct initialization…)
I like the use of CCP, as hyper authoritarians can’t help but appear to “correct” them. (This trick also works for Nazis!)
I will take your advice though and start questioning your narrative, starting with a request for sources on every claim you’ve made.
ZooGuru@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This was my first thought. Seems unlikely. I’d see this just as likely being propaganda.
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Thank goodness Xi managed to suppress that horrible propaganda created by the evil Western… I mean Chinese financial company that reported on their research.
We need to trust more reliable sources with less conflict of interest, like the World Bank.
Filthmontane@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s because it’s being applied to Western standards. China spends a crazy amount of money on social welfare and government assistance. Minimum wage is around or less than 2000 Yuan a month around the country, yes. But, that’s completely ignoring currency exchange rates and cost of living.
Cost of living in Shanghai and Beijing are around 4,500 Yuan. Which means a couple or two roommates can live on minimum wage in the biggest cities. Compare that to minimum wage and cost of living in New York City or LA which is $1,280 a month, costing $4,300 and 1,342 a month, costing $5,576 respectively.
Tldr: how much money you make is only relevant when compared to your cost of living. It’s not hard to live in China on $300 a month.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
So by relative purchasing power, why would China want to censor information if it didn’t actually put them in a negative light?
Filthmontane@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well I think this article and comment section is a clear indication of the power of this information when used for propaganda.
hagelslager@feddit.nl 10 months ago
“Saving face” is a big thing in their culture, as well as in other Asian cultures.
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mao-like administrations tend to do that. Undoing whatever progress Dong fulfilled
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If it’s propaganda it’s coming from within
“In his article for the business outlet Yicai, Li cited data from a 2021 research paper by the China Institute of Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University, which placed the number of people living on less than 2,000 yuan a month at 964 million, or nearly 70 percent of the population.”