Comments by "ricardo kowalski" (@ricardokowalski1579) on "Why Corruption is China's Secret Weapon" video.

  1. 9:40 buy privileges And there it is, in a nutshell, the whole case for anarchism 10:30 "shower employees with perks" This is a HUGE contradiction. No Google employee would consider food, electricity and gas as "perks" These are perks only in a society SO POOR that it is closer to Orwell's 1984 (see below) If China is still so poor that food is a "perk"... it means the GDP numbers are fiction. ========= In practice the needs of the population are always underestimated, with the result that there is a chronic shortage of half the necessities of life; but this is looked on as an advantage. It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship , because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life. Nevertheless, the few luxuries that he does enjoy his large, well appointed flat, the better texture of his clothes, the better quality of his food and drink and tobacco, his two or three servants, his private motor-car or helicopter-- set him in a different world from a member of the Outer Party , and the members of the Outer Party have a similar advantage in comparison with the submerged masses whom we call 'the proles'. Title: Nineteen eighty-four Author: George Orwell
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