People used to buy land and build a house on it and that was the inheritance. It could then be cut into smaller parcels and new homes built for the kids if they stayed close.
And of course if you were wealthy it was businesses and trust funds which still occurs a lot these days.

The middle class was partially stripped of its wealth by each generation giving less to the next

Yeah they should be allowed to burn everything they ever touched and take it with them when they go. Or maybe we even build giant stone triangles for them and put all their stuff in there with them.

Them getting to spend all the money scraped from the rest of the world and leaving a bleaker version behind us so justified. They put in all that effort and who cares about next generations anyways.

Common phrase of course:
“Cut down all the trees you planted in life so that nobody but you can ever sit beneath it’s shade.”

My family tells me “write a book then I will read it” and I just keep thinking:
Assholes, maybe instead just listen to me when I tell my stories you want to ignore so badly.
They couldn’t even be bothered to spend thousands on me though and more than once in my life I have just been dropped off at street corners with hopes that I would disappear from their lives.

It sucks. While I may not know you, I know similar pain and know it’s never easy. I hope you find comforts in the little things around you.

That wasn’t his point and he doesn’t need to edit his comment because you misunderstood it.

You don’t engage with the facts you don’t like and only hold up the sources that prove your points. I pulled out facts about citizens self mutilating and you responded with an ad hominem claiming I was using a word that belonged to you rather than engage with the facts.
You blame others for what you are doing.

I have and others in here have been just pointing out other ways that China is not perfect but you ignore those and hold up the Harvard study you have as if it was a silver bullet to finally slay all the mean things people say about the country you apparently love, that won’t love you back.

I never claimed it’s a perfect utopia,

I’m arguing against people saying that china isn’t perfect

You are a hypocrite. We all are but you refuse to see it.

You do.

You go around saying anyone that disagrees with you, even on minor details, is a liberal and insisting that China is a fantastic Communist state. You are setting the bar on purity with no room for disagreement without with taking to insults and acting poorly.

The purity is that which you are insisting in others not even on the country. I have not even called you or anyone else in here a tankie once but you insist that I did so it okays you to “react” appropriately.

And how would a local business with a single employee be thinking they could better exploit themselves? Do you not see how you aren’t even cooperating in the conversation? You barge in to shout a lot and see the discourse as productive even if it’s just loud nonsense.

You don’t even know that I have a 10 year work visa in China and have spent a generous amount of time over there, you have no knowledge of my detainment for giving out a VPN nor do you know about my detainment in Singapore for the same thing. There is nuance and more to the world than just one thing such as workers or economics on broad scale, but it’s easier for you simplify for the sake of the fantasy you wish to have.

He specifically doesn’t want to hear anything that doesn’t confirm his world view and in being loud about it it’s getting him likes from his in-group which he thinks is all he needs and makes him superior.

You can see it in the way he responds to everyone with either the idea they fully agree with him or are deserving of indignation.

Wait till he finds out even his echo chamber doesn’t pass the purity test and God forbid he ever fail it himself.

Also I swear the amount of small business owners I know in Singapore who agree they live there for a better life is wild if you know anything about the authoritarian lean of Singapore. Grass is always greener and all that.

Which part?

Calling out a world leader economic, manufacturing state for their mistreatment of their citizens instead of holding up needless national pride for a country I don’t even live in? Cause you are a classic Nationalist.
Heck you might even be Nationalist Socialist at the rate you push specifics onto others that don’t match to alleviate your own desire of the world.

Which comments cause you keep just shouting an insult to feel right then high fiving yourself. We can all see you masturbating publicly to this sense of superiority I just am waiting for the post nut clarity to get you to even point out your logic.

Cause it wasn’t me. And I think you thought it was even though they made mention of Marxism and other points.

I’m confused cause it’s confusing. As if you are just trying to cover for something that didn’t quite work out and doesn’t quite make sense.

Cause you are still wrong. That’s kinda the whole point. You’d rather be wrong and feel right. It’s completely unproductive even to yourself.

You got to be willing to ask and listen to other points of view and respond to that. That’s having a conversation and getting more out of this world else wise it’s still just you vs everyone and everyone who thinks they are in the “in” group until they aren’t.

Wait did you just repeat the exact same response twice to 2 different people? You just keep that on copy and paste?

Or you never asked and you just kept pushing labels on me that aren’t correct. So, I kept pointing out they weren’t correct.

Edit: also you replied to not me.

Not that either.

Why is that I must belong to either of those ideologies? Is it so you can have pre conceived notions a our who I must be in the other side?
As I if can’t disagree on the minutia and still be in general in agreement?

It never ends and it’s never so simple.

He’s going around calling everyone that especially when it doesn’t fit because he just learned it’s an insult.

Still not a liberal.

And alright. I understand that other countries are more directly responsible for the economic woes of the world as that is the whole point of them and China is the manufacturer so their issues will be more worker treatment related than economic policy.

You move on to whatever to protect your point of view. You are on a conquest to be self righteous rather than right.

My point is don’t seek for other, seek for better. It’s not a golden paradise, just another reality that isn’t perfect, because it’s top busy being a reality.

Yeah not a liberal and what would you call predatory loans to Africa and export systems of raw goods, or the annexation of Tibet, or the threatened annexation of Taiwan, or the skirmishes in the late 80s for the “South China Sea” which mainly cover reefs that have now been over fished, or even Russian, Tajikistan and Vietnamese land as recently as 2009?

A word you think belonging to you doesn’t make it wrong to be used just because you don’t like it. It’s not even revolutionary just a Latin root word of ruling used for Napoleon using military to gain other counties support, and has been used in lots of ways by lots of people since.

There are people upset enough with Chinese imperialism and rule that they light themselves on fire in the neighboring country as a way to try and get attention and assistance.
That doesn’t come from nowhere even if it’s not a majority.

Multiple things can be true such as different governments can be each doing their own form of abuse. It doesn’t excuse one to admit to the other and there can be positives to all relationships.

Be upset with what you have and what’s around you but don’t use that to imagine a fantasy of greener grass on the other side of the fence. Do it to will a better existence around you.

Yeah some risks need to be taken now but also gambling is not the same as taking risks when like… Gambling only ever pays the bank else casinos wouldnt be the favorite profit maker of corrupt men.

Real weird film. Wanted to love it more but it’s hard to recommend. It’s a perfect dream like movie about life but leans a bit hard into the absurdism

How original we talking?

I have seen The Substance (good) in theaters and I saw the TV glow (hated it). I also watched Megalopolis (weird) in theaters and if we want something really original I even last year watched the Onyx the Fortuitous movie in theaters (enjoyed the heck out of it)

I will likely watch Nosferatu in theaters and any smaller movie that puts the effort in and deserves my money.

But I am not paying for the movies that they make just to make money. I don’t reward that kind of bad behavior and that afront to art and story telling.