[LINK] Fwd: [Announce] Australia takes the Software Freedom record!

[Craig Sanders]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:47:48PM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> On 2006 Sep 06, at 12:11 PM, The Howard spokesmidget spruked:
> >just fly out to any major chinese city and walk down a random street
> >and ask a random person how they feel about their standard of living
> >under the new capitalism regime and the old anti capitalist regimes
>
> Australia is a highly urbanised society: 90% of people in Australia
> live in cities; China is the opposite: 90% of people live in the
> countryside (very, very rough figures).  Go out of the cities and ask
> them and you may well get a different response.

or not.

while the new yuppie capitalist class[1] in China's cities may be happy
with the current economic policies in china (i.e. to transform the poor
from enslaved peasants into enslaved cheap labour for chinese-american
manufacturing partnerships...with the partnerships lasting just long
enough for skills/technology transfer to take place, at which point the
americans will be told where to go), the poor who are being evicted from
their houses so they can be demolished to make way for yuppie apartments
wouldn't be anywhere near so happy.


[1] mostly the sons and daughters of the previous generation's top party
members.

> Anyway Monsieur what would you know about what people in China think  
> anyway?

he knows as much about that topic as he knows about any other.  

craig

ps: the good news is that capitalism will inevitably eat itself. the bad
news is that it will eat everything else in the process.

-- 
craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)