Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "What Xi Jinping Fears More than America" video.

They kind of ARE nearing upheaval. Except for Spain they're kinda okayish. They have massive social tensions. But of course, the problem here is the lack of release valve.
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@reaperz5677 You're right. China is a capitalist country whose only current pretense to socialism is the government levers on the largest businesses in the country and a large. Unlike China, Europe is primarily socialist having the government actually run their economies as well as the expansive welfare systems where they provide for the populations.
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I don't think anyone accuses Greece of being that
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Hasn't been like that in the west for a few decades now either
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First off: We do actually have supporting documentation from the opening of the Soviet archives. Especially with how soviets were an explicitly atheist state. Secondly: The fact is simply that China has a university enrollment rate that's incredibly high just generally at roughly 60% while a country such as India has roughly 28%. Especially when it was facing a potential issue with students and youth unemployment, it's absolutely a solution. Of course, the alternative is just doing nothing at all, an action at odds with the government's desire for stability.
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Yeah no. The only countries with youth unemployment so high are countries like Spain or Sweden. Germany for example has 6%. The maximum in America is 13% and has an average of about 8.5%. Nothing like that.
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@TheAgentOfDeath California has i think around 12%. That's why i said the maximum as i meant the maximum in any state was around 13%. The average for America is about 8.5% as i said before.
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@miguelbaca8086 No. What i said was that we proved the soviets did in fact have these motivations when these things occurred. Secondly, the point isn't proven. The implication is that it's a false narrative. It's simply reality.
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@miguelbaca8086 Your point isn't proven if the proof was we found the motivations were correct
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 @momoware nope...
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Not really, unless they want the full Russian Empire experience.
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@testacals If that was the case I would've called China socialist for being a government that does stuff (they've been boosting their GDP via government funding of random useless infrastructure they can't afford to maintain). Europe is socialist not because of their welfare state, but because many of them make the majority of their economies via national industries controlled by the government and then subsidies to other industries.
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This one is less obvious. The issues here are structural regarding the economy. On the one hand: the economic growth couldn't go on forever. In the other hand: the Chinese elite have tried their hardest to keep it up as long as possible. The fact that the underlying fundamentals to it were eroding wasn't a fight they could ever win, nor quite seemed to understand.
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@momoware I know. Even then. China is just That bad right now
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First off: The largest reason for the lack of upheaval in developed countries is due to their comparative wealth of a golden age and unified elites for most of their post war history. Not to mention the demographic factor which means you don't have enough young people to do anything. Secondly: Yeah no China isn't getting to that 20k anytime soon. That's predicated on a higher economic growth then they have by official metrics. By unofficial metrics they're possibly 60% smaller.
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@JonTan-z3e You're right it's absolutely impressive. Though, it's closer to 10k in all likelihood due to the compounding effects of lying on GDP figures and using other ways to measure their economy such as overall night time light emissions. However... i don't think 40k is actually unobtainable. I think it's unobtainable within this generation. I think the central fundamentals of China are significantly below what they should be, and it has many factors which will lead to its own decline in terms of pure size later on. I think if it fixes its fundamentals, and gives it another go in a couple of generations, it could probably get way bigger, though it'll be with a much smaller population.
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