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> Their favourite iPhone is made by communists

China has been a capitalist state since the 70s with a turn to State Capitalism in the 2010s. Furthermore, China's leadership remains anti-Welfarism, with Xi himself making speeches against expanding the already weak social safety net.

> Every day Capitalists use public sanitation, running water, Education, GPS, police and prosecution but they imagine they could exist in a mad max world instead of dying of cholera

Capitalism doesn't preclude public infrastructure. That's just a facile argument.

> the LED

The modern LED was developed by Texas Instruments and Bell Labs in the 1950s.

> like satellites

Both the US and the USSR knew about how to launch satellites in space by the mid-1950s. It was the USSR that chose to prioritize it, and the US that chose to deprioritize it.




> Capitalism doesn't preclude public infrastructure. That's just a facile argument

I am measuring by the same yardstick as the OP.

If taxes to pay for public services are good capitalism, then you can’t call Europe socialist.

> The modern LED was developed by…

Whatever, take Hyperbaric welding. Will a western oil company refuse to use it because it was invented in USSR?

The fundamental accusation of the OP is totally hypocritical.


> I am measuring by the same yardstick as the OP.

Fair enough! Didn't see their argument. Yea that was dumb.




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