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An interesting article from Hong Kong dated November 14, 2017, written by a HKer historian, Tao Jie (pename), titled 'When the plague spreads'. Translated by baidu. Do you agree with his obervations and analysis?
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The right wing advocates free market economy, opposes slavery, advocates freedom, especially that the market needs to have choices.
The left wing advocates socialist economy, opposes monopoly, oligopoly, and safeguard freedom, especially human rights and democracy.
Twenty-first century has come to this point --- the internet world is sweeping the left and right out, forming a new hegemony. Rightists' anti slavery stand, and pro real election hopes are getting dimmer by the day. Electronic commerce and payments gradually deprives consumers of choices.
Thatcher and Reagan both favor the rise of small businesses. Today, multinational companies dominates the business world, making the life of small companies more and more difficult.
Upon the world's turning to Taobao and Facebook, the privacy left wing so treasured is the first to go belly up, with "1984" arriving earlier than expected. There's no need for the CIA to peek and spy on American citizens. The name Snowden is already obsolete. Today, Zukerberg (Facebook) and the board of directors of Apple have taken charge of your personal privacy and know everything about everyone.
Once, the left goes crazy with their support for Snowden. They also hate CIA, but they do not hate Zukerberg, Google and Apple, in fact they worship Steve Jobs like a god.
Zukerberg wears a long sleeve grey T-shirt and marry a Chinese wife, compare with Trump's glamorous hotels his image is one of "I am a member of the young people." But, if Zukerberg's Facebook allow Russia to become a shareholder, this huge privacy data machine is going to be in the hands of Russia and China. Those offshore funds from the Middle East including Arabia can then easily roam the globe under the name of "free market economy", and control privacy globally and personal freedom via this supereye.
Left-wing intellectuals including those new Neo liberalism supporters can only chant their political correctness slogans, anti discrimination fights, universal love and inclusiveness nonsenses all day. Of course, the right wing can counter this using mass popularism.
While the West is wasting its efforts in its two camps fight, "money empire globalization" has completed the process of power diversification in multiple arena.
In the olden days, prior to nineteenth century money was in the hands of the East India Company, the British Empire. In the twentieth century money was in the hands of the oil monguls of the American Empire and Wall Street tycoons. In twenty-first century money has shifted to the hands of political forces outside the Western civilization while the West keeps selling its technology along with its say, piece by piece.
The structure of financial domination has changed fundamentally after five hundred years of dominance originating from Spain, Holland and Britain. The boundary between "freedom" and "slavery" has increasingly become blurred. United States gets a short-sighted businessman president on a four-year term.
The world bathes in rage and excitement of internet network instant messages.
How to stay sober admidst a sea of fools is the biggest challenge of an educated man.
Tao Jie's golden adventure November 14, 2017
6 years 24 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
just as a 'matter of fact" thing .. I too retired. my 8 hour day had become a 24 hour day. had no use for the "BOSS" calling me after hours on my fancy new cell phone that seemed like such a privilege for about 2 months or that company e-mail address that got filled with bullshit on my time at home. . constant questions largely from new hired young ENGINEERS that were hired at a similar rate of pay as me. Imagine being a TEACHER, as many on ECC are .... teaching a kid how to speak English while they are getting paid as much as you, to learn whatever you can teach them.
I, to this day am very happy with my decision to quit ..make an opening for a young, incompetent ENGINEER.
The best memory is THROWING that 24/7 cell phone at the manager ... here you answer it at 4 am and at 6 am and at 9pm and at 11 pam
You know now that I have retired I can see the blurry line between freedom and down right slavery getting more blurry. By that I mean those that still work at there place I retired from seem to be virtual slaves. More production with less but harder working hours. It is indeed a kind of slavery.
earthizen:
Freedom and slavery. If you define earning a living as slavery then birds, dogs, fishes, even plants, all have to perform some form of actions to stay alive, this means all living organisms on Earth are slaves. No free lunch, this is Earth.
You know now that I have retired I can see the blurry line between freedom and down right slavery getting more blurry. By that I mean those that still work at there place I retired from seem to be virtual slaves. More production with less but harder working hours. It is indeed a kind of slavery.
just as a 'matter of fact" thing .. I too retired. my 8 hour day had become a 24 hour day. had no use for the "BOSS" calling me after hours on my fancy new cell phone that seemed like such a privilege for about 2 months or that company e-mail address that got filled with bullshit on my time at home. . constant questions largely from new hired young ENGINEERS that were hired at a similar rate of pay as me. Imagine being a TEACHER, as many on ECC are .... teaching a kid how to speak English while they are getting paid as much as you, to learn whatever you can teach them.
I, to this day am very happy with my decision to quit ..make an opening for a young, incompetent ENGINEER.
The best memory is THROWING that 24/7 cell phone at the manager ... here you answer it at 4 am and at 6 am and at 9pm and at 11 pam