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Five years after killing a journalist in cold blood, Saudi Arabia is stronger than ever (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Who is doing so much better though? It seems like most countries have similar issues and it's not really a West vs East thing. Costa Rica seems like one of the nicer places to live in the world right now, but it's a "Western" country and it's also tiny.

I look at Eastern countries like Korea and Japan and see a ton of problems with workers being abused and authoritarian legal systems. Better than the US in some ways but worse in others. I would rather live in the US despite the worse healthcare cause I don't want to work 12 hours a day.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

US labour law exists in spite of democracy, not because of it. Also, I think it's hard to argue that Korea and Japan aren't Western democracies (in that, they value Western democratic ideals and structure their governments around the Western concept of democracy).

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China ended absolute poverty within their borders. That's 800 million people in a 40 year period.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You’re a fool. CPC / CCP did no such thing. Plenty of starving homeless people in China to this day and zero social safety net.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Tell me you haven't been to China without telling me you haven't been to China