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1. That's a bold assertion you make about the CCP. I don't like them, but they have proven quite resourceful.

2. You say this as someone knowledgeable with other high tech industries? Here in IT we tend to pat ourselves on the back quite a bit, how do you know you're not falling into the same trap?

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> but they have proven quite resourceful

when it involves oppressing people...truly generative processes? nah...it gets done when they start utilizing markets but otherwise it's fundamentally doomed

> when they start utilizing markets

I don't think you're familiar with the modern Chinese economy...

Not to mention markets don’t really affect how TMSC or Samsung are organized internally.

that's what I'm saying: chinese prosperity is largely happening when they use markets, but the popular idea that there's some unstoppable, ultra-powerful chimera of totalitarianism and capitalism - I think there's a huge burden of proof that it isn't fundamentally still organizational folly like much of totalitarian states/communism

Even the USSR under Lenin utilized markets in some cases. Communist ideology isn't fundamentally opposed to markets.

The Chinese economy is hardly communist at this stage, it's a mix of socialism and state sponsored capitalism.

Agreed.

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