These days a lot of kids just speak English (hexbear.net)

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(I mean, at least in the Metropolitan area) Earlier I waited in line at a shop in Helsinki and behind me was a large group of schoolkids, all various people of colour and all speaking American English with each other. It's a fairly common occurrence in Eastern Helsinki and makes you feel like you're in the US or Canada

It's interesting how quick things have developed just since I was a kid

I think it's cool but it seems to cause Finnish boomers enormous existential anxiety of the Great Replacement variety

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It's not supposed to be an own either way, the comrade I was replying to just wanted vaguely Asian cyberpunk.

The PRC is a (generally) state capitalist economy that's broadly on a trajectory towards socialism. That means it has to accept a level of inequality and excess. That being said, you are right that constant vigilance is necessary against corruption and opportunism.

In my opinion, the end result of socialism is not a society where luxury goods do not exist but rather one where luxury goods reasonably reflect their cost of production and the proletariat can easily afford them. A $2000 Gucci bag has maybe $200 of labor and materials in it, so strip away the marketing and shareholder parasites and even with a better paid workforce it's still reasonably affordable.

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