China is banning ‘wealth-flaunting’ behavior on social media

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China is banning ‘wealth-flaunting’ behavior on social media

www.nbcnews.com /news/world/china-banning-wealth-flaunting-behavior-social-media-rcna154240

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You know what happens when an entire nation is exposed to luxurious lifestyles of an extremely wealthy minority?
Revolution. Revolution happens.
Chinese politicians know this fact too well, that's why they're trying to make rich people hide their wealth.
I mean actually fixing the problem is out of the question, that would be communism.
- This is one of those laws where I fundamentally disagree with the state having the power to make laws like this because the power will be misused, but in this instance, I actually think the law seems fine? Its not just exposing actual luxurious lifestyles like you imply, its also people going into debt to fake a higher level of lifestyle than they actually live, and this self perpetuates through social media like a virus.
  
  If the government gave even a single shit about the poor, they would focus on banning wealth hoarding not wealth flaunting.
  But they don't, so they aren't.
  What they are doing is openly showing who they are and what they do care about (capitalists, on both counts), you not wanting to believe it is a different problem.
- you and me are probably exposed to extreme luxury from a minority, but revolution aint happening anywhere rn
  
  Yup. And for me the reason is I don’t see rich people as a threat to me.
- Idk. That exposure happens here, and it mostly makes people go into debt trying to emulate the appearance of wealth.
- You know what happens when an entire nation is exposed to luxurious lifestyles of an extremely wealthy minority?
  They also want the same thing.
- Communism wouldn't fix much, and it would only be a temporary fix. It doesn't work well at a larger scale which is why every country that has tried it has either fallen apart or turned into a dictatorship.
  We're better off finding the proper balance between capitalism and socialism until someone comes up with a better system that actually works.
  
  I mean most houses crumble when you hit em with a tornado but were still building houses.
  What i mean to say is I think we can agree there's enough noise in most previous communism attempts, making them pretty shitty data to base your hypothesis off off
- Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Gotta suppress those aspirations before they get out of hand. Wealth is just the theme in this case, but could be anything else.

China really doesn't want to have the discussion that its economy is more unequal than the EU's.

its a bad day to be a chinese gangsta rapper.
- bad news, those who do rap in China are all technical secondary schools.
  I know that not all countries care about academic qualifications as much as China. Academic qualifications mean almost everything in Chinese, so this makes those who rap more funny because they have no academic both time . can you understand what i mean ？
  
  honestly no idea but its all good given the jest nature.
- Nah. Having so much wealth that it doesn't matter if the CCP makes flaunting illegal is an insane flex. They'll start doing it even more.

inb4 tankies screaming that this is a good thing, actually.
- Transparency and knowledge are capitalist myths. The only way forward is mass manipulation and the destruction of freedom.
  
  Destruction of freedom? What freedom? They already are slaves of the big corporate elite machine lizards!
  /s
- Fuck me sideways
  
  Hahaha they're so predictable

- Communism is when China does anything... Especially capitalism!
  
  The type of capitalism found in China is known as state capitalism and it's an unholy blend of central planning and free markets, with the government owning significant stakes in all key industries, exerting a massive control over both the economy and society as a whole using all of the methods used by previous Communist autocracies, only this time with far more technology.
- China is "communist" in the same way NK is "democratic". It's just branding.
- Communism is when wealth disparity
  
  Literally what half the comments here are saying lmao, like yes and the sky is green everyone knows this
  
  Yea. They want it to be communism. But communism never worked.

China has never experienced a Renaissance, so it will never be civilized
- That's a weird combination of things to believe. It's weird all together and every part of it is weird individually.
  
  I can explain to you ten thousand words to prove that China's humanistic heritage has never changed since the Qin Dynasty.
  This is probably a consensus on the Chinese Internet.
  I was just joking when I said Renaissance, although it is not unreasonable.

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