It's been a while since I read it, so I can't really remember that part, but I may have just rolled my eyes and moved on lol. It was written in 2016, so quite a bit has changed even since then.
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Interesting, thanks for the additional info and for the work in translating that video. I just read it. I'd be really interested to see what he says in part 2.
The way real estate has been used to drive up gdp globally, especially in the core countries, seems like a terrible problem no one seems able to deal with. Does China include impuded rent in their GDP calculation?
It just seems like another bandaid to push the problem forward into the future. Eventually you have to deal with it, and clearly the private real estate market just wants to produce speculation bubbles and drive the price of housing to unaffordable levels.
Thanks for the reminder to read that comment, I saved it but forgot to back to read it. I'll give it a read soon.
I have a book to suggest: Imperialism in the 21st Century by Smith, published by Monthly Review. It covers a lot, but the first chapter can be read alone as it details very well the imperialistic relationship between the core and periphery through three comoddities: T-shirts, iPhones, and coffee, the first of which being the most interesting imo. It also covers ways in which trade unions within the core have implicit interests in worsening this exploitative relationship, but that may be in chapter two.
The whole book is dense and packed with information. For me, it really made concrete what imperialism is today. Available free here: https://resistir.info/livros/imperialism_john_smith.pdf
Will this not just make the housing market worse? Allowing prices to continue to climb while saddling people with even more debt?
Literally 
:shrek-sad:
Tbh CNN probably made that up, but idk. It would be a good idea tho
There is an ebola outbreak at burning man, and the hexbears are laughing. Smh
The first week was funny, now it's annoying. The current sorting algo doesn't help either.
Nice being federated with lemmygrad tho
I had a dude in my private messages going on about how I was both mutilating myself and other children.
This is fucked. We should defed whichever instance this came from immediately
This made me look up whether Xi golfs, and I found this gem from CNN in 2017:
Xi, an avid soccer fan, isn’t known to be a golfer – and he’s been waging a war on the sport in his country.
Since he came to power nearly five years ago, Xi’s government has shut down scores of golf courses across China and effectively banned the 88 million members of the ruling Communist Party from playing.
There is hope yet
Yeah, I like to recommend this book to people as it hits some points settlers does without the Maoist standard English and more data. But this book also implicates everyone living in the imperial core tbh