Pandas only evolutionary advantage is being adorable. It is like cows being delicious - without that, they’d simply cease to be.

Holy duck I love pandas.

You can move within your country and your experience will be entirely different. You can’t in China, because it’s an authoritarian hellstate.

I agree that Republicans are authoritarians, and that sucks. I also acknowledge that you likely view hierarchies as inherently authoritarian and that we’ll likely not see eye to eye on where to draw lines. Also fine - that’s what liberal ideologies want, is that disagreement.

But to compare China positively with the US in terms of authoritarianism is, frankly, a bit silly.

My guy, I’m living in a state that tried to arrest a woman for removing an ectopic pregnancy.

Yep, and your state voted for that. My state amended it’s constitution to prevent this situation, also through voting.

In China, you don’t get that option, because China is an authoritarian state.

Authoritarian doesn’t simply mean “bad” even though authoritarianism is bad.

You know what’s not a sign of an authoritarian state? An appeals court overturning a bad verdict.

Crystal Mason’s contentious illegal voting conviction must be reconsidered, criminal appeals court says

You should really click the links you use as evidence.

China wants people to move from rural areas to cities, which is why they forcibly move them from rural areas to cities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/chinas-great-uprooting-moving-250-million-into-cities.html

China is an authoritarian state that had a literal one-child policy until recently

Hamas should surrender unconditionally because there is a 0% chance of them winning this war and a negligible chance of them surviving this war.

That’s when you surrender.

Tanks are mobile artillery. They’re not only designed for fighting other tanks.

People who sell things that are in high demand and necessary for survival generally are not in the practice of denying people access to those things.

I am questioning where I supported Chinese government policies here?

Because the initial concern was pay, and that’s due to not understanding economic factors. I don’t support Chinese labor regs at all.

In fact I said

“Companies that appease the CCP are the problem” which I also thought was a nice little pun, given the show being discussed.

Chinese people deserve jobs too. Comparative advantage is a good thing that helps everyone involved.

The Yuan is currently trading at 7.32 to 1 USD

Companies that appease the CCP are the problem, not companies that leverage exchange rates to better lives globally.

Wait til you find out about this fun little thing called “federation”

The gig economy is less precarious for the people that choose it because it fits their schedule. That’s why they choose it. Jobs aren’t exactly hard to get right now - they’d do something else if they wanted to.

Also uber drivers don’t make less money than taxi drivers. On average, they make about the same.

Taxi: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-TAXI-CAB-Driver-Salary-by-State

Uber: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-UBER-Taxi-Driver-Salary-by-State

The “labor laws” you reference only exist to give taxi companies monopolies and provide worse experiences for everyone involved