Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-215 days agoPublic transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 lemmy.worldimagemessage-square283fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imagePublic transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 lemmy.worldDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-215 days agomessage-square283fedilink
minus-squareanachrohack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days agoAt some point, though, when the government keeps running up deficits to subsidize this, the bill comes due
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days agoDid you know that most of China’s debt is held domestically?
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoYeah, sure. China has a debt to GDP of 88.6%. That’s not great. Luckily we don’t have that problem in western capitalist countries, right? USA: 121% Canada: 104.7% UK: 101.8% France: 111.6% Japan: 251.2% Italy: 136.9% Belgium: 105%
minus-squareanachrohack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoThis isn’t about the US. My criticism of the US was pretty clear in the original post
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoI also didn’t only post numbers for the US.
minus-squareanachrohack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoOk fine: this isn’t about the west. You see a comment about economics and your immediate response is whataboutism because you think this is about politics
At some point, though, when the government keeps running up deficits to subsidize this, the bill comes due
Did you know that most of China’s debt is held domestically?
Yeah, sure. China has a debt to GDP of 88.6%. That’s not great. Luckily we don’t have that problem in western capitalist countries, right?
This isn’t about the US. My criticism of the US was pretty clear in the original post
I also didn’t only post numbers for the US.
Ok fine: this isn’t about the west. You see a comment about economics and your immediate response is whataboutism because you think this is about politics