• Nay@feddit.nlBanned from community
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    23 hours ago

    I honestly don’t know enough about the Chinese economy to have much of an opinion of it. I was just trying to make a joke because what you described is still authoritarian capitalism to some level, even if it’s working.

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      23 hours ago

      It’s not capitalism though. Economists have even given it it’s own name. It’s called mercantilism. It doesn’t help when we just make everything binary.

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        23 hours ago

        Fair. You’ve piqued my interest, and I think I need to educate myself here.

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          23 hours ago

          Also, honestly I don’t know if it’s better. I just know it’s different and at least we should try to understand.