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Bravo! This is what I'd call a real discussion. 
I agree with most of your arguments. However the fact that you brought up "democracy" shows your misunderstanding of the problems that created this what I call "social injustice" in the first place.
I said before that democracy is a luxury that these poor and hungry simply cannot afford, so let's just forget about it. What I was talking about, and perhaps I wasn't clear enough, was the urgent need for a social reform: universal health care, employment insurance, government subsidy to farmers, interest-free loans...programs that can really help these unfortunates. And I do believe that there are programs available on the surface already, but the scope of these programs needs to be largely expanded, and the administration of these programs has to be closely monitored, preferably corruption-free.
These capitalistic countries today like US or Canada are not pure capitalistic, aren't they? Why? Because they realized that long-term, steady profit-making is actually more beneficial than the short-term exploitation. Social programs were created to help the need to survival. Of course these countries had a head-start on China, they've gone through the hardship and learned their lessons, now is China's turn.
Injustice creates instability, and instability in any form if not rectified will lead to the final collapse, even the Chinese government realizes that. What we need first and foremost is a deeply committed government, but we don't have that now, not yet.
I agree with most of your arguments. However the fact that you brought up "democracy" shows your misunderstanding of the problems that created this what I call "social injustice" in the first place.
I said before that democracy is a luxury that these poor and hungry simply cannot afford, so let's just forget about it. What I was talking about, and perhaps I wasn't clear enough, was the urgent need for a social reform: universal health care, employment insurance, government subsidy to farmers, interest-free loans...programs that can really help these unfortunates. And I do believe that there are programs available on the surface already, but the scope of these programs needs to be largely expanded, and the administration of these programs has to be closely monitored, preferably corruption-free.
These capitalistic countries today like US or Canada are not pure capitalistic, aren't they? Why? Because they realized that long-term, steady profit-making is actually more beneficial than the short-term exploitation. Social programs were created to help the need to survival. Of course these countries had a head-start on China, they've gone through the hardship and learned their lessons, now is China's turn.
Injustice creates instability, and instability in any form if not rectified will lead to the final collapse, even the Chinese government realizes that. What we need first and foremost is a deeply committed government, but we don't have that now, not yet.
