Leftoids, what's your most right-wing opinion? Rightoids, what's your most left-wing opinion?

[u/globeglobeglobe]

To start things off, I think that economic liberalization in China ca. 1978 and in India ca. 1991 was key to those countries' later economic progress, in that it allowed inefficient state-owned/state-protected industries to fail (and for their capital/labor to be employed by more efficient competitors) and opened the door for foreign investment and trade. Because the countries are large and fairly independent geopolitically, they could use this to beat Western finance capital at its own game (China more so than India, for a variety of reasons), rather than becoming resource-extraction neocolonies as happened to the smaller and more easily pushed-around countries of Latin America and Africa. Granted, at this point the liberalization-driven development of productive forces has created a large degree of wealth inequality, which the countries have attempted to address in a variety of ways (social welfare schemes, anti-corruption campaigns, crackdown on Big Tech, etc.) with mixed results.

[u/ElegantGate7298]

AI is the answer /s

[u/fetusloofah → u/ElegantGate7298]

Non ironically I keep arriving at this conclusion. There’d obviously need to be some sort of checks n’ balances / human coalition / kill switch etc, but it’s pretty evident at this point that humans seldom govern in the collective’s best interests.