I am aware that the West’s best time was essentially at the expense of the rest of the world - but where can one find opportunity and prosperity of those times today? Was this a great anomaly of history? Is it time to hedge your bets on living out the Chinese dream?

Is it time for the West to accept that what our parents experienced will never exist again?

Will the world overall need to accept that the western living standard of that time will never be reached again? (It’s too unsustainable - for the planet, and because superprofits won’t flow as they once did)

What has actually happened that’s caused it to collapse?

  • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    100% agree that anywhere in the global south is better than the rapidly decaying imperial core, but let’s not forget that all of latin america (outside of cuba and vz partially) still has not gone through stage 1 of socialism: nationalizing all key industries and land under a communist party. This process has always required a civil war also, everywhere we find it.

    So all the negatives of high rents and low wages are inevitable without that first step. These countries are still 50+ years behind the PRC or Vietnam, and have no hope of escaping capitalism or neoliberalism until they take the first step:

    Obstacles to the China path in Latin America

    I do believe that if there is a list of countries to go socialist next, many of them would be in latin america, or at least hundreds of times more likely than any imperial core country.