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Dessalines@lemmy.ml to Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

The PRC's long-term high speed rail progress.

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The PRC's long-term high speed rail progress.

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Dessalines@lemmy.ml to Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago
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    They don’t need it though, China already had a very robust traditional passenger rail network which is the primary reason many of these high speed lines are hemorrhaging money: people aren’t willing to pay the increased cost for a high speed ticket

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      Hemorrhaging money 😂 These high speed lines are owned by the state, which has infinite money. It can charge as much or as little as it pleases.

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        Infinite money? Is that why the factory workers are all paid great salaries and have the best working conditions?

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          Do you think you’re being clever?

          • United Nations: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
          • The Economist: At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
          • Reuters: China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data
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            Do you think you’re proving they have infinite money or great working conditions?

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              1. Workplace Safety Now Better in China than in Australia
              2. It is self-evident that the Chinese state, which has fiat monetary sovereignty, does indeed have an infinite supply of its own money. As does the US: The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. — Alan Greenspan, 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve
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                trotskyistplatform.com

                looks inside

                Those are some very strange trotskyists

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                  If trots are strange, does it cancel out into normalcy?

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