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1. That's a revisionist view of China's labour history. There have been many examples where the glorious leadership did NOT find meaningful employment for its workers.
   The Chinese government sees their citizens as a means, not an end. If it works out better to let people starve homeless, people will shiver in the rain. If it's cheaper to use slaves, they will use slaves. If it's cheaper to let people die, people will die. If they don't anticipate the need for human labour in the future and there are a billion extra mouths to feed, a billion people will die.

2. China has some of the worst domestic environmental damage in the world. To their credit, they also have some of the best environmental remediation, but it's still selling out the future of everyone on the planet.

3. I'm not the one holding out exploitation as prosperity, so I do not have to defend the actions of other exploitative environments. By your own logic, they should be viewed strictly in terms of their prosperity, so obviously you think things in Germany and the USA are just peachy.
   But I would note that in Germany and the USA, corporations are independent of the state and the state is not directly benefiting from that exploitation to the same degree -- merely enabling it through legislative capture. But that is not a thing in China because the Chinese government is effectively entirely captured, being effectively the same entity as all the major Chinese corporations.

You just conceded the argument right there. Your purpose here isn't to promote China and make people think it's good, it's to merely create doubt about the subject. That's all the wiggle that is needed. So, bad faith arguments are all you really need.

But really, it's sold in every supermarket, right next to the spring water, in an almost identical package, with no warnings. I infer people are not dropping dead left and right.

Nah, I just process it with my mighty system of organs.

Distilled water. That tang. I'm told it's stripping my body of minerals but 1) I don't really believe it and 2) I really don't care, it's fucking delicious.

You do when you have the legitimate monopoly on violence.

Those manufacturing jobs for humans are super safe in the coming decade, and selling out future generations' natural legacy surely won't have negative consequences. You're looking at exploitation of the labour class by the ruling class and saying it's prosperity. Well, yes, of a sort.

The name on my Park Run card is "Do Not Resuscitate"

Why? What do you propose the point of this would be?

I will not be responding to comments.

Then fuck off. Like, actually. We're not here for you to use to meet your emotional needs and not actually contribute.

Okay, but why? The hypothesis that they bought an extremely successful business because they want to make money doesn't need any further explanation. What is the motivation for them to try to export their strict laws to other countries? You act like it gives them so much personal joy at taking away our gay kissing, that's reason enough.