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Elon is always obsessed with WeChat's model. (For those who don't know about WeChat, it is basically the name of the 'Everything app'.)

Everything in one single point is pretty convenient but has led to a bunch of risks...

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[–] markr@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well perhaps it is creepy but in China it is massively convenient. Nobody uses cash or credit cards except foreigners. Everyone connects socially through it. Yes the authoritarian government is collecting data, how that is creepier than our distributed techno-authoritarian data collection is an ideological mystification.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes the authoritarian government is collecting data, how that is creepier than our distributed techno-authoritarian data collection is an ideological mystification.

Because one of those will put you in jail and have you executed and the other one just tries to sell you stuff

[–] Shialac@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The incarceration rate is 4-5x as high in the US as in china

[–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I'm sure. Easy to keep the incarceration rate low when you just go straight to executing criminals and committing genocide against entire ethnicities. Fuck the US, but especially FUCK ~~NAZI GERMANY~~ CHINA.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Please count the reasons for these incarcerations.

[–] NXTR@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

According to Bureau of Prisons the majority of those incarcerated are there due to drug offenses:

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Imagine how empty the slave chambers would be with proper drug acheduling in the U.S.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Not because of dissent, unlike how the comments of the user I replied to tried to imply

[–] NXTR@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Famously the Untied States has never had a single political prisoner.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Well there is a chance that is going to change.

[–] Shialac@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The incarceration rate is 4-5x as high in the US as in china

And the death by starvation rate?