Incredible opening image:
Noticing poverty means you’re ignoring CONTEXT and NUANCE:
The fact is that societal inequality is a problem in both China and the United States. And the American economy no doubt leaves many people in fragile positions. The causes are complex.
There are fewer visibly homeless people in China because of AUTHORITARIANISM:
Yet in China, poverty is experienced and perceived differently. In most Chinese cities, street begging and visible homelessness are tightly managed, making them far less prominent in daily life.
Just because it’s true doesn’t mean it’s true:
When I was growing up in China in the early 1980s, my family subscribed to China Children’s News, which ran a weekly column with a simple slogan: “Socialism is good; capitalism is bad.” It described seniors in American cities scavenging for food, and homeless people freezing to death. Those stories were not invented, but they lacked context and were presented as the dominant experiences in American society.
Classic 
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That fear of running out of money is one reason China has among the world’s highest household savings rates.
i really appreciate the notion that begging and public homelessness are tightly managed in china, but not the US: the literal home of bulldozed tent cities, anti-panhandling laws, and even ordinances specifically saying not to provide food to the homeless in public parks.
the author needs their ass kicked and then to be shoved out of a moving vehicle to pretty much any city in the US with no cash, no cell phone, and no ID/cards. so they can realize they can’t even take a piss without breaking the law.
That fear of running out of money is one reason China has among the world’s highest household savings rates.
Did the authors not realize that they are implying that Americans are too poor to save money…
It’s not a coincidence that there is a swell of these messages now. China’s economic growth is half what it once was. Youth unemployment is high. Familiar paths to security — stable jobs, rising property values, steady upward mobility — have become less predictable. For many families, the margin for error feels thinner than it once did.
Wow I’m sure glad that can only happen in a bad authoritarian country
Those stories were not invented, but they lacked context and were presented as the dominant experiences in American society.
Once again, Kojima was cooking with MGS2 and Arsenal Gear being a tool to massage the truth to get people to believe whatever the Patriots wanted them to
I’m also reminded of the time the Washington Post said Bernie was doing a Pinocchio when he said that millions of Americans work second jobs, because the number was eight million and not everyone.
gosh I am sure it doesn’t affect their judgment at all that if China isn’t BIG EVIL, it means they and/or their parents made a bad choice uprooting their entire lives to side with a declining racist empire ruled by profit
