China is responsible for 75% of poverty reduction

Yep. Capitalism is pretty great even when applied dishonestly.

chinas median wage is now higher than some european countries, and it is only growing

Are billionaires good?

women in gdr had more orgasms than women in the west

No arguments here, that’s fucking awesome. Best argument for communism I’ve ever seen, no sarcasm.

Didn’t realize it was communism that continually extracted wealth from the global south for near 500 years

It might be a bit difficult task for communism to pull off, given how it’s about 200 years old.

meddled in their politics constantly to benefit private interests, and kept them in a constant state of undevelopment for cheap labor and raw materials

USSR wasn’t nearly as shitty as European countries were for their colonies, but they did do some shady stuff with their satellite countries in East Europe at least, quite notably Ukraine. Difficult to say how that would’ve went if they had been given the opportunity to do this for longer than the ~80 years they got before collapsing.

China adapted parts of the capitalist system and subsequently their poverty reduced massively. It could be that they implemented free markets better or perhaps it’s more likely that they started so much lower.

but I’m not sure how a “free market” ran by people who follow the philosophy that companies only have the responsibility to answer to shareholders will generate wealth for “many.”

A singular goal gives them focus, and a simple system is ideally more efficient than a complex system. It’s the job of the society to enforce upon them a framework where that focus can be applied in a way that doesn’t cause negative value.

Skew is not exactly what we’re seeing here.

Half of the world was communist for most part of the 1900s. It has certainty been tried, and it failed spectacularly.

It gets massively better for almost everyone, which unfortunately doesn’t help the minority for whom it doesn’t.

Most parents: lol, I’m with this screaming 24/7/365. Fuck your grief :) :)

Cynically mass influencing opinion is immoral. Using automated software to do that is doubly immoral.

The fact that Russians are doing this is not controversial, it is widely documented. Whether they’re doing it here is perhaps questionable, but then again, Lemmy and its APIs are free to use so why wouldn’t they.

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I feel like you guys are focusing on the wrong thing in this meme.

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The thing is, the internet does exist now. And it is part of the world kids grow up in.

I wouldn’t be so defeatist. Things can be changed if enough people want to change them. Children have been and are being protected from various things right now. There’s no reason why new things couldn’t be added to that.

Gives them a good reason to hang around with friends, if they can get to the internet via them, right? :)

Anyone that does this is just trying to indoctrinate their kid and prevent them from being exposed to any other ideas.

Books, magazines and libraries still exist, though.

Nevertheless, I won’t probably be as radical as to completely ban Internet from my two younger kids. But the idea is interesting after seeing via my older kids what an unrestricted access led to.

I’m curious of this as a thought experiment: what do you think the children will miss if they don’t access the Internet before the age of 16? What did the hundreds of generations of children before the invention and spread of Internet lack?

And also spying is the best way to lose your kid’s trust.

Well of course tell them that you’re gonna do it. I guess “spying” isn’t the best word then?

I’d like to go against the stream and say that if you let your kids use the internet, spy the fuck out of everything they do in there. At least until they’re something like 16yrs old.

Better yet, don’t let them use the internet.

Does it actually say “forbidden knowledge”?

Even if the leadership of a company is focused on making money, a lot of the organization below that leadership might very well be focused on providing a good service. Which for a food producing company would mean feeding people. A lot of time there’s a synergy between making money and providing a good service.

You could also say that the leadership of a communist country doesn’t care about feeding people, they care about the people not revolting out of hunger. There’s a kind of positive synergy there too.