7
China is cutting its tech giants down to size. Should the west learn from this?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2021
7 points (88.9% liked)
Technology
36769 readers
123 users here now
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.
Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It did not! Only after turning to market-based approaches did that partially happen (and thus abolishing the authoritarian state hell), before that it made the suffering much worse by starting a civil war and afterwards doing their "great leap" causing millions to starve to death. You can not glance over facts like that, and doing so is highly dishonest.
That's just more nonsense since none of the core industry was ever privatized or left up to the markets. You are as ignorant as you're bullheaded.
Also, imagine being so historically illiterate to claim that communists in China made "suffering much worse. This is presumably what you're referring to.
And what else is there to tell you if you can't even understand how Walmart example is relevant to the discussion of whether centralization is effective or not.
Uhmm, did you actually look at the graphs on that paper you just linked? It clearly shows extremely high levels of infant mortality during the civil war period and another big spike during the "great leap" period, both of which were the result of the CCP trying to enforce their authoritarian idea of a state.
Afterwards it slowly declines with the enacting of market-based policies... which exactly supports the argument I am trying to make.
If you can't even understand the concept of trends, what else is there to say really.