Cult I Mean Group
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
badbrainstorm@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

The world’s largest democracy is collapsing before our eyes

www.vox.com

external-link
message-square
88
fedilink
91
external-link

The world’s largest democracy is collapsing before our eyes

www.vox.com

badbrainstorm@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
message-square
88
fedilink
Narendra Modi’s war on India’s democracy, explained.
  • socsa@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    So far you have provided a survey about government satisfaction. When presented with data which shows that China is quite a bit more corrupt than the west, you changed the subject to argue prosperity and wealth.

    And on those topics, you are wrong as well. China trails the west considerably on:

    Human Development Index:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

    GDP:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

    GDP per Capita:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita

    Educational Attainment:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_education_attainment https://www.worldeconomics.com/Indicator-Data/ESG/Social/Mean-Years-of-Schooling/

    Access to Indoor Plumbing:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proportion_of_the_population_using_improved_sanitation_facilities

    Social Mobility:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

    Labor productivity:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_productivity

    Minimum wage:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_wage

    We could keep going here. You are very clearly the one who is cherry picking data. Like many people who make these ridiculous claim, you seem to be under the impression that everyone in China lives in tier 1 cities, and ignore things like China’s hukou caste system, or the fact that the average rural Chinese person does not even attempt a high school education.

    Again, I acknowledge that China has made miraculous advancements in many of these areas, and will likely be on par or even surpass the west in many of these this century. However, you are clearly arguing in bad faith, moving goalposts and ranting about a bunch of things you seem to have quite a poor grasp of.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Again, you Wikipedia is not exactly the most reliable source for these things, and I’ve provided you with very different numbers from other sources. Pretty much every source that accounts for stuff like PPP shows that China is doing quite well compared to the west. However, you once again ignore the fact that the west had a head start, and that the wealth in the west comes from colonialism. China’s growth doesn’t come at the cost of impoverishment of other countries the way western growth does. Finally, the really important part is the trajectory. Life in China is improving, life in the west is getting worse.

      And claiming that when I’m arguing in bad faith or moving goal posts when I’ve been consistently saying the same thing and backing up with sources says everything I need to know about you. Bye.

World News@lemmy.ml

worldnews@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !worldnews@lemmy.ml

News from around the world!

Rules:

  • Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc

  • No NSFW content

  • No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1.17K users / day
  • 2.4K users / week
  • 5.64K users / month
  • 13.6K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 36.9K subscribers
  • 14.9K Posts
  • 132K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml
  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
  • Jack.@lemmy.ml
  • zephyreks@lemmy.ml
  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.8
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org