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That sounds like a lot of trouble lol

It’s a balancing act, artistic choice and such. Also depending on the company, it might be designed to increase engagement to keep you addicted

Kill enemy, save, make certain jump, save. Takes a lot of risk out of the game. I like when games let you save anywhere but if you restart the game or load your save you start in the beginning of a room regardless of where you saved from. (Like ocarina of time)

I dislike this meme, it’s inaccurate

Yes foxconn is taiwanese, but the factories I’m talking about are in Shenzhen China, therefore subject to Chinese labor laws. I do agree that things are improving over there, but they have a long way to go before I would say the country cares about health and safety of everyone

To the first part, to my knowledge they only care about health and safety in specific cases, but they allow for working conditions with things like lead, asbestos, toxic chemicals, etc. Foxconn is the first example that pops into my head, where workers were searches and beaten, and some were committing suicide. And back when China was buying US E waste, workers would be scavenging through dangerous phosphors and mercury, plus some mild lead exposure.

To the second part, I am not comparing China to the US, I don’t believe the US government is good either, so that’s irrelevant

Thank you, I will take a look at these. There is certainly a lot I don’t know about China’s government

My point is that China has a capitalist market economy, and therefore it’s not communism. Nothing to do with revisionism. Li’s definition of capitalism seems to be narrow, I know it as the ability to own the means of production. If you can own a private company in China, and if that company can profit off of the work of people working for wages, I consider that capitalism. Xu Jiayin of Evergrande Group absolutely benefits from the work of people below him, and they are exchanging their labor for less than it generates. If you consider that to be a feature of communism, then we must have different definitions of communism

I did not say having rich people makes a country an aristocracy, not did I say China has done no good for the world. You assumed that.

I’m not pro China, but that doesn’t mean I’m not open to learning about why you are pro China. Your response is constructive and brings to the table things I didn’t know and can now further research. From the perspective of someone who works for a US corp that does business with China, and who has co workers from China, workers best interests aren’t being protected at any reasonable level like they are in say Germany. But I also am aware that even though my working conditions are fine, the awful working conditions for other jobs in the US (some from the same company I work for) are covered up and hidden from the public eye as well

No, I’m saying you took one small piece of what I said and latched on to it. Let’s say the US has never helped another country before for sake of argument. It doesn’t change the fact that I see both countries as capitalist aristocracies

You’re splitting hairs at this point, I don’t understand why

I don’t know if the user jonathan12345 in the rest of this thread reflects the rest of this community, but they’re basically putting words in my mouth and disagreeing with things I’m not even saying. I’m anti capitalism, but that kind of behavior definitely makes me think this isn’t a place I want to be a part of.

I did not say the US eliminated poverty and you didn’t say China has eliminated poverty?

The US has indeed exploited countries for resources, but that does mean they haven’t also helped in some cases, even if it’s a minority of cases

I mean, I would also call the US a capitalist oligarchy, wouldn’t call Biden an oligarch, and would say they’ve done the same in the past, so yeah I would still call it that personally. That’s generally how industrialisation under capitalism goes. I’d even go as far as to say the US and UK had a lot of influence on it getting where it is in the first place, and it’s very difficult to do trade with the west in this world without shifting towards capitalism. (Not impossible, but difficult)

Edit: In the definition of oligarchy, a small group of people hold power. I take that as relatively small, so maybe I’m mis using the term. Aristocracy might be a better term, but it’s somewhere in the middle

No, I’m saying China is a capitalist oligarchy. Currently, right now. I don’t believe it can ever become communism with the current people still in power. That can be debatable, but what they are right now is definitely not communism, and that’s all I was saying

I also want to add, I feel like I was legitimately trying to engage with you and you’ve become defensive/lumped me in with others, which isn’t really fair

We’re talking about communism here not socialism, I didn’t say China doesn’t have socialism

That’s not true in the slightest though? I mean the very fact that there are different wages, there’s poverty, China invests heavily in foreign companies (both the government and private Chinese corporations), that’s all capitalism. The farmer doesn’t have any say in what tencent or the China Evergrande Group does. The CCP controls the media and limits free speech, and makes decisions for everyone. Even if you’re to somehow convince me that the people who control the CCP aren’t rich oligarchs, they’re absolutely still in control of the CCP, and it’s not communism.