Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 7:18pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 1^st, 2026 at 12:34pm:


Well it can mean 'common prosperity' for all, ie, absence of crippling c-o-l and housing pressures for lower wage earners, which Oz, UK, US and EU citizens are experiencing, hence the current dysfunctional politics in the democracries.

Meanwhile China's miracle economy has slowed, given the West's inability to compete with China - and the subsequent tariffs being levied on Chinese exports.

All courtesy of mainstream Neoclassical economics informing WTO 'free-trade' rules.

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You are blind to the macroeconomic forces keeping c.10% of the population - the most disadvantaged - in poverty or out of work,  or forced to survive on low wages in a high c-o-l economy.

The median Chinese salary is less than half of our unemployment benefits. China actually has a higher income disparity than Australia. TGD attempts to disagree with me on this occasionally, but he does not understand what any of the statistics mean. All he knows is what the CCP tells him to know.

Back when the CCP was literally starving Chinese people to death by the tens of millions, their propaganda machine was still so god they had the Chinese peasants feeling sorry for the poor hungry Americans, who were just getting into the obesity epidemic. Nothing has changed really.