Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Great Depression at Last! A Meticulously Planned Astonishing Conspiracy Is Concluding Perfectly" video.

  1. The CCP is expert in lying upwards. For example, a directive from above is transmitted to the lower field officials in the system. These lowest officials are either lying or covering up to protect their positions, so they lie about results to their superiors. These lie to their superiors and so on, all the way to the top, I.e. Xi Jinping. Xi thus gets a distorted positive view of reality. Everyone fears punishment from him, so they lie creatively. No real data is collected, so the economic problem remains and gets worse and worse. The end will come eventually, but the poorest people in China will suffer the most; with their lives.
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  2. I know the expression by Xi Jinping, "common prosperity", seems much more like common poverty (poorer people may be more easily controlled). However, I disagree that some of these actions causing the 8 point malaise outlined by this program is not all planned economic sabotage for the last decade. Some are just blind stupidity and economic ignorance. Governments do make mistakes, and there are consequences in the polls in a democracy. But China is not a democracy, so there are no political feedback mechanisms (such as losing office by vote) that can correct abysmal and irresponsible mistakes made by a perpetual one party state. If China ends up as a giant North Korea or Russia (both grindingly poor and insanely corrupt), then what? We've already seen significant failures of Russians fighting in Ukraine the last couple of years. Russia is imploding from within and also from without, which is a geostrategic serious thing as a continental power with all those bordering countries. Russia is already militarily weak, vis-a-vis NATO (it's external enemy, and China's). If there is one thing that authoritarian states value is military strength. But you can't have military strength anymore without technology and fair competitive training (officers must set the agenda and morale by their actions). China, like Russia and North Korea is facing a military crises now as a result of wrecking it's economy. As a large authoritarian country with sometimes hostile bordering states, it is not (like Russia) in a position to downgrade it's army and airforce too much, but that's precisely what will happen.
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