• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      What’s funny is that virtually everyone acknowledges it. Even Trump acknowledges it when he said that “China thinks in decades”. But the Western capitalist culture is too strongly ingrained that the instinct to be greedy overrides any rational sense.

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        i find it especially grating that the people who parrot things like “give a man a fish / teach a man to fish” are the same people who will sell off company land and buildings to a landlord who then charges them rent for it, because “wAOW LOOK HOW MANY MONEYS WE MADE IN THE QUARTER WHERE WE SOLD ALL OUR SHIT!”