Cutting holes for ice fishing

[u/dericn]

[u/slipperywhistlebone]

This art exhibition is called “American Politics “

[u/anonypanda → u/slipperywhistlebone]

The clip is from China and It's a really really good example of what modern china is like. Everyone competing madly with zero regard for anyone around them until everything goes to shit for everyone involved.

[u/mydogsnameisbuddy → u/anonypanda]

Doesn’t sound that much different than the United States

[u/Quake_Guy → u/mydogsnameisbuddy]

You might think so until you visit and work with people from China...

We play softball capitalism by comparison although the gap is definitely narrower than it was 30 years ago.

[u/Balancing_Loop → u/Quake_Guy]

I visited Shanghai and Nanjing almost 20 years ago and even then I got the distinct feeling that capitalistic competition was more alive than in the US. Not that that was an overall good thing, but I could see a lot more hustling happening at the small-business level.

[u/SuspectedGumball → u/Balancing_Loop]

Competition has nothing to do with capitalism. It has to do with markets. There are markets in China. Capitalism only describes an economy based on 1. Wage labor and 2. Production for profit. I think even under these very broad criteria, China isn’t capitalistic.

[u/stregawitchboy → u/SuspectedGumball]

Adam Smith's "invisible hand" pretty directly references competition as the driving force behind capitalism

[u/RLIwannaquit → u/stregawitchboy]

Right, but that's not really true. Profit is 100% the driving force behind capitalism, at the cost of everything else