Comments by "Bob" (@bobs_toys) on "PolyMatter"
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This isn't a question of overall numbers, it's a question of ratios.
The ratios in the PRC are completely screwed and don't look set to improve. At least not without mass murdering the elderly.
As far as automating everything goes, there simply isn't enough money. The PRC isn't rich, it's just big. The ratio of wealth to people is still low.
As far as immigration goes, you've got Two problems.
1. Getting the sheer numbers needed.
2. Getting the sort of people you need.
In each case, you're competing with the West, which has a collective genius at creating the sort of countries people want to move to (don't believe me? Look at migration data) and for 2 in particular, because the PRC really doesn't have that much money per person, it's competing with the West which can offer far, far more.
Also as a westerner who's living in (and about to leave)Hong Kong, I can tell you first hand how many of the people you really need feel about making the PRC its long term home.
No. Hell no. The govt here is a genius at screwing things up.
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It's not the American public, though, it's the public anywhere
Three years ago, people genuinely didn't care about the PRC. Obviously a lot has happened there that has nothing to do with the media (If anything, the media has helped divert attention away from what the PRC has done to us)
It doesn't really help that the same excuses were applied to HK, where the idea that the foreign media presence are greater than the CCP controlled media presence and propaganda efforts is simply laughable. Seriously, we're claiming that anything from a few hundred thousand USD to a few million USD has been, on its own, enough to turn an entire city of seven million against the CCP. An entity to which they have personal exposure to on a very regular basis.
Anyway, your excuses don't matter. What matters is the result.
The result is that in the past three years, the world has gone from not really caring about what's going on in the PRC to considering it a genuine enemy state.
All the excuses and whines in the world about unfairness won't change that.
And the wumao spreading their message is doing wonders to accellarate the process.
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