For examples, classical and neoclassical economics really run away with “selfish people maximising self interest”, to the point try to reframe family decisions as “intra-family bargaining”, and Maggie said “there is no such thing as society, only the individual and family” (because as a Tory she couldn’t admit to tearing those apart).

Capitalism, positivism, and post-modernism have all eroded those things.

When we have less free time, and everything is commoditised and given a monetary value, interhuman connection - which resists the economic lens - falls by the wayside, as the modern “homo-economous” values only what has a price tag.

When gathering spaces, and natural groupings are either made to focus on money or wither, there is no space for community in a casual sense.

The death of meaning with the rise of post-modernism also means that grand narratives, and the myths of belonging have also lost a lot of their power to a rightful dose of skepticism. (Descriptive rather than prescriptive, but probably did speed things up a bit.)

Capitalism will eat us all.

I’ll give it a listen,

I’ve always been a fan of Devo’s cover of it too.

It’s that kind of White American with a superiority complex and is certain that they aren’t racist, but even if they were it’s just as bad in Europe so it doesn’t matter and Europe should follow the US’s lead on race relations. Because obviously other countries’ historical context and events don’t matter, nor make race relations in the UK, France, or Romania unique and not analogous.

I can’t pick a mere one.

Duk

Blimey

Bloody

Bugger

Cracker-Yank

Chuffed to bits

Hench

Knackered

On the drag

Plooked

Pillock

Tired and emotional

Wanker

Please & cheers.

S’il vois plait & merci (beaucoup)

Terog & multzumesc/multzumeme (singular vs. plural thank you)

Bitter & danke

– & spaseba

– & tak

Qîng & xìexìe

– & diàhdiah

Had more, but forgot them. Have forgotten at the Turkish and a Miao language phrases.

You can only get the best result in the prisoners dilemma by working with others.

Believing that humans make rational economic decisions is pretty irrational economically.

As is centering economics on a theory that ignores the means of production.

Cheers

ProBt

E-svekada

Slauncher

Saclicniz

Campei

Campai

Gänbëi

Forgot my Romance family options… =(

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Une, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix

Uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinqo, seiz, siete, ocho, neuve, diez

Yï, èr, sän, sì, wû, liù, qï, bä, jîu, shí

Yain, tain, eddero, peddero, pots, later, tater, ovvero, covvero, dits

So… 5. Far fewer than I can toast in.

Did you read that article, or just post the first news link you found with a headline that agreed with you?

‘No Evidence’ “Dr. Yi is an early and courageous individual to criticize China’s harmful birth control policies,” said Feng Wang, sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine.

But Wang disputes Yi’s conclusions. “Scholars in China and at the U.N. have analyzed these and other data. Not a single person has ‘discovered’ such a huge discrepancy.”

Everyone agrees to not accept China’s figures, but no one can find anywhere near such a big gulf. And you’d think that if they could, more US and Taiwanese sources would be reporting on it, wouldn’t they?

Have you ridden on the Pyongyang metro? What was it like?

Where’s your favourite place to go in North Korea?

What’re some of your favourite books and films?

China, and maybe some other Asian countries have a household registration ( hukou 户口) system.

Only people born into the system get to exist for things like schools, national insurance, etc.

So any unofficially born second children (or hidden first born daughters) didn’t get to legally count under this.

Also; children born out of marriage don’t exist for state schools or benefits, either.

Where your hukou is limits your options for access to housing, claims on social security and health insurance, and the like. Mostly if you were born into a very rural area your only pathway to legally having a place to live and for your children to go to school in another part of the country is via university graduation.

There are pushes to change this system, and smaller cities are removing their requirements for non-rural hukou. But Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities you have probably heard of are yet to do this.

Unfortunately, the harsh truth was more often a doctor who was tasked with second pregnancies whose job details made all the other hospital staff realise he was a monster.

Oh, I figured they counted as a huge loss of civil liberties.

US gained the rights to legally murder its own citizens without due process under Obama.

Also loads of giving corporations and capital rights, and rolling back protective anti-investment gambling under Democrat administrations, which ate up the rights of non-capital.

He had one, but he fired her and looks to be too stubborn and sure of his own competence to hire another one (or maybe too proud to admit that she was right and useful after firing her for petty reasons).

If there’re family in the PRC, they could certainly be on the hook if you’re spotted at events Beijing deems sensitive (things to do with Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet, the '89 Massacres, 66-77, etc.)

I’d also reckon that your family grew up either with direct experience of, or in the spectre of, the Cultural Revolution. The psychic damage of that can not be understated.

It’ s also that the social contract in China is very different to that of the US and Anglophone/European culture countries.

There are valid, logical, reasons for your family’s point of view. But it is also a viewpoint that is willing to tolerate a bad society in order for an adequate life personally.

Mainland PRC has no entries after 2016 for the UN site.

The London Prison studies one has an estimate for 2018, and says based off of UN data.

On 百度 I get mixed figures, from 3900 and another states At least 700 a year, but I also think it’s talking more globally.

Doesn’t seem to be public government statistics, like the UK or EU gov data sites, which would be nice to check things out and show to the rabid anti-China folks.

That’s the UN data for Hong Kong, but it was easy enough to find the page for the PRC, excluding Hong Kong and Macao. The figures still line up well enough (noting, as the other page does that it exclude statistics about people interred in the “vocational training schools”), although the UN doesn’t have figures post 2016.

UN page doesn’t seem to have execution rates either, which would also impact incarceration rates.

Not to say that the US isn’t atrocious and also terrible on all those metrics, and plumbing new lows with each successive presidency. I was just kinda hoping for some more official PRC reported figures.

I’ve been looking for Chinese prison-crime-etc. data. Do you have a link?

It being in Mandarin isn’t a problem.