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  • Pili@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlRednote right now
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    7 hours ago

    Eh… as someone living in western Europe, I can’t say it’s free. I would say that it’s subsidized at most. We still have to pay a part of our healthcare, we can get a private health insurance to complete the government coverage, but it’s still not enough to cover all of it.

    Mental health isn’t covered at all, ophtalmology barely (still gotta pay 200€ for a pair of glasses, after public + private coverage), dental only the very basic is covered…



  • Taiwan for one is richer, stronger and happier than China per capita so does that mean dictatoriship -> democracy is a better system

    Everything in that sentence is factually untrue, I need to get some of the stuff you’re smoking because it must be crazy strong.

    There’s no way to verify how other political system would have worked for China

    It’s very easy to know. India and China have similar landmass, population, and got their independence at around the same time.

    The difference between the two is that China’s people democracy is an objectively superior system to bourgeois dictatorships they have in India and Taiwan.

    It’s ridiculous to compare mainland China with Taiwan, as that island is incredibly small and therefore much, much faster to develop, and it received a lot in investments from the USA as they need a strong ally at the PRC’s borders to support their hegemony. Look at south Korea for another example.