Chinese Economics Thread

9dashline

Captain
Registered Member
I struggle to find other sources indicating the assertion that Americans are more satisfied:

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!



Interestingly enough, it seems US is behind Russia and China in the International Olympiad in Informatics, as well as the International Collegiate Programming Contest in the last 20 years:

International Olympiad in Informatics:
View attachment 96161

International Collegiate Programming Contest:
View attachment 96162
I can tell you antidotally that Americans are by and large NOT satisified with their lives nor the direction their life and nation is headed...

Im in my mid 30s and recall a time in my youth when growing up when neighbors were actually nice to each other and random strangers on the street would smile and wave and people went of their way to help etc...

These days people keep to themselves, dont even look each other in the eyes, and everyone is walking around with a grudge and chip on their shoulders in that sort of "f*uck you, got mine" mentality....

Ive lived on my suburbian current street for past 17+ years next to a major Highschool in a large US city... the camaderie is gone, the spirit is broken, and people just dont really even know their neighbors anymore... there is next to zero interaction

Gone are the icecream trucks waxing poetic to lyrical music in the summer or kids selling lemonade in front of their homes with makeshift stands... gone are the neighboor get togethers or even so much as someone baking a cake and sharing with the nextdoors etc ... heck we recently had a cat go missing and one of our neighbors two houses down knew about it, found a dead cat fitting similiar description in her backyard, decided to call up her "friend" in Arlington Animal Services Erika Brooks and makeshift buried it in her own backyard without taking a photo or retrieving collar or performing a microchip scan and then after I found out about this she refuses to give any info and completely shuts down....

Heck to be honest the very last time I recall the neighboorhood or street even being together for anything was during summer of 2020 two years ago when to help boost spirits after the covid shutdowns they had F18 jets in close formation blue angels fly across the metroplex of dfw and one of the routes intersected our area and for a brief couple of seconds we all stood together on the street to see the low level jets pass by...

To say Americans are more satisified is a bold face lie, bolder than POTUS proclaiming of zero inflation and no recession...
 

56860

Senior Member
Registered Member
The only thing that doesn't hold water is focusing on only 2022 data. China had a very strict bout with COVID resurgence and attempting to draw a long term trend with that is like drawing America's long term trend from its 2020 Q2 data. The CCP has many more tools than Americans to adjust and regulate the Chinese economy and in the long term, China is always growing not because it never runs into issues but because the CCP always solves them in short time. Those who shy away from long term data fear the big picture and wish to make mountains out of the molehills of their choosing.

Proportional means that China has been outperforming the US in tech growth while using a sigificantly lower proportion of its potential. It's not just 27% vs 46%; it's all of them throughout the age ranges because 50, 60 year-olds are still very much active in STEM. That shows that China has been using a much lower proportion of its people power to vault its sciences to much higher growth than the US AND the growth of its utilization much higher as well as seen in the increases through progressively younger age ranges. In other words, put in a way that a physicist would take to, China's position is close but slightly behind the US, but its velocity is higher and its acceleration is higher as well.
The best universities for emerging fields such as computer science, AI and data wrangling are not found in the US; they are found in China and Hong Kong.
 

manqiangrexue

Brigadier
Zero-COVID is substantially hurting consumer confidence, business confidence and business investment in China
Aw man, look at all those people running, so fast, so lively! As opposed to this in the USA... betcha those people wish they could run... or walk... stand... ok they'll settle for breathing.... breathing anybody? Anybody? Bueller?....... Bueller?........
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Wawa sent a 53-foot refrigerated truck to store bodies of people who died of COVID-19 in New Jersey, as morgues and funeral homes struggle to keep up with the rising death toll​

5e8e143192e8ba5d3c7819c6
 
Top