China is SUCH a fucking shithole.
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oneirophreniaHuman rights abuses out the yin-yang.
Uncontrollable population explosion of mindless drones good for nothing but sweatshop work.
Bird flu, SARS, and christ only knows what other pathogens breeding in the sodden filth of their jampacked cities.
And now--best of all--the country itself has declared that only "happy news" can be broadcast via media channels (televised, internet, etc.).
Seriously...the Chinese people are better than this shit. I've NEVER met a person of Chinese descent who wasn't bright, considerate, and just flatout wonderful to be around. But I guess if you stuff a few billion of them into a small region, however, they completely lose their minds.
And the US and EU seriously consider China to be an economic threat? Give me a break. The only thing holding that goddamned country together is the sheer inertia of their government and their horrendously-uneducated populace. Sure, they're a manufacturing "threat" to the rest of the world, but that's only because they have a literally infinite supply of sweatshop workers. Humans--for now--are better workers than robots when it comes to menial labor (since they can not only repair themselves, but make MORE of themselves, and need very little maintenance ), and China's got that in spades, so let 'em be a manufacturing powerhouse. It'll all be for nought the second the first 3D printer or nanoscale assembler platform goes online in the next thirty years. Then the country will just be a seething pit full of people dying from any one of a trillion different pathogens and monolithic governmental mismanagement.
Uncontrollable population explosion of mindless drones good for nothing but sweatshop work.
Bird flu, SARS, and christ only knows what other pathogens breeding in the sodden filth of their jampacked cities.
And now--best of all--the country itself has declared that only "happy news" can be broadcast via media channels (televised, internet, etc.).
Seriously...the Chinese people are better than this shit. I've NEVER met a person of Chinese descent who wasn't bright, considerate, and just flatout wonderful to be around. But I guess if you stuff a few billion of them into a small region, however, they completely lose their minds.
And the US and EU seriously consider China to be an economic threat? Give me a break. The only thing holding that goddamned country together is the sheer inertia of their government and their horrendously-uneducated populace. Sure, they're a manufacturing "threat" to the rest of the world, but that's only because they have a literally infinite supply of sweatshop workers. Humans--for now--are better workers than robots when it comes to menial labor (since they can not only repair themselves, but make MORE of themselves, and need very little maintenance ), and China's got that in spades, so let 'em be a manufacturing powerhouse. It'll all be for nought the second the first 3D printer or nanoscale assembler platform goes online in the next thirty years. Then the country will just be a seething pit full of people dying from any one of a trillion different pathogens and monolithic governmental mismanagement.
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Date: 2005-10-04 11:03 pm (UTC)