Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Fake Rich of China: The Secret Lives and Lies of 'Shanghai Socialites' | China Economy | Internet" video.

  1.  @albertsmith99  <How about be a good human being?> That is just not going to cut it. <That's why the world is in this state of chaos> This is the secular humanist, atheist, God and religion-free world humanity asked for. Too liberal for its own good.
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  2.  @unluckyforsenbajs7503  China is barely capitalist.
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  3. Jay-Z, Bill Gates and others would like a word with you on that.
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  4. But no one forced them to work hard for said owner much less apply for a job there.
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  5.  @schneejacques3502  Just like India, Norway, most Arab-majority countries, etc.
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  6. <Maybe it would have been in the 80's or 90's where you'd get more money if you worked more hours, or you were rewarded with bonuses for doing more work.> It's not worth it today, because of how much money is taken from your paycheque by the government once you start working overtime.
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  7. Don't you just love how communism/socialism always end up being exactly what they fought against?
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  8. It's only recently that the Chinese got to enjoy anything resembling economic freedom as the government toned down the command economy to get China out of the gutter in the 1980's.
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  9. They just want the benefits of equality, but the costs reserved for men.
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  10. Most of the people in the video came from money. This is more laziness and wanting the easy way out in life.
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  11. And you have only Deng and Clinton to thank for that. The last time China was communist, it was the world's biggest (begging) rice bowl.
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  12. China already has actual communism. And these are the results. The government and the well-connected prospering and everyone else suffering.
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  13. @Jake Exactly.
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  14.  @Adonna2424  Especially if you have no long-term plans or goals.
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  15. Actually no it isn't. There's more to being better off than just merely working hard or even working a well-paying job. You need a goal/plan and the discipline and diligence to stick to it which includes being able to budget, save and invest.
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  16. <They can work to death and still not make it.> Which is a consequence of having no plan or budget. <The system isn’t built for the majority to thrive,> Neither is socialism which suppresses people's ability to improve their situations independent of the government.
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  17.  @baldkiwi444  China is barely capitalist.
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  18. <we are left with a world where nobody wants to work.> Not just by that, but also often left-wing governments discouraging work and success with high taxes in favor of social welfare which perversely encourages laziness and failure.
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  19. Better that than the CCP.
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  20. But some are better than others. And inequality is natural as not everyone can achieve and/or maintain the same level of prosperity.
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  21. Don't you just secular humanism?
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  22. China is communist. And communism is an oxymoron as it often end up being what it accuses capitalism of and worse.
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  23. It figures as economic freedom and personal freedom go hand in hand leading to people questioning the government and their way of doing things.
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  24. Communism is a contradiction.
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  25. Exactly.
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  26. LOL
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  27. No. The love of money is the root of all evil.
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  28. Meh. Those revolutionaries were hypocrites who lived the good life while letting their own countrymen starve.
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  29.  @Abc00193  Hardly, tankie! :)
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  30. Caused by ineffective, destructive and malicious policies of previous CCP regimes, Mao in particular.
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  31. Due to it by and large still being a command economy with opportunities reserved for those with political connections.
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  32. Just so he and the ruling communist party can save face.
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  33. And yet some people think that secular humanism will solve humanity's problems. LOL
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  34. Communists are the biggest practitioners and beneficiaries of capitalism.
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  35. Exactly. Just ask the Winnie The Pooh. His father was a card-carrying CCP member who got demoted for disobedience.
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  36. Also saving and investing. Working hard is a myth, only because most people who do that usually have no plan or long-term goals just living for the moment (which is understandable since no one is promised tomorrow).
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  37. LOL. Since when did communism share the wealth equally? In communism, the government, family and friends get the whole pie while the people get the crumbs.
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  38. Anyone can be rich, but not everyone can be wealthy as wealth is generational and it takes smarts to maintain and further grow that wealth.
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  39. LOL. No. Mainland students in the US are 4 people tops.
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  40. Enabled by the US. You can thank Nixon and Clinton for that.
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  41. <it's honestly understandable why people choose the latter because you are pretty much working yourself to death for a system for someone else's lambo.> Namely a relative or friend of a government official.
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  42. Depends on which CCP official they can successfully bribe.
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  43. Yes there is as that's basically most of the country's political class.
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  44. Yes blame the women. They took up the profession by choice. And they should be thankful that capitalism gave them the opportunity to do it.
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  45.  @crystalsplace7163  No. Fake-it-'til-you-make-it is a relatively new thing as it's been only recently that the average person have any real access to wealth.
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  46. LOL. They know nothing except how to worship their CCP overlords.
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  47. LOL. It is a communist country. The government and the well-connected = rich. Everyone else = poor.
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  48. And in the case of China, it goes to show that communism is a hypocrite and have consistently become the very oligarchy and oppressors it fought against.
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  49. The 1-child policy only applied to city folks.
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  50. Because they are estranged from God.
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  51. LOL. China got to where they are by Deng's free-market reforms and Clinton shipping off America's manufacturing jobs.
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  52. LOL
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  53. But at least the American Dream is achievable for the average person unlike the Chinese one only achievable by being a political stooge.
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