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But at what cost!? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I always understood it to mean the "cost" is just more capitalist accumulation. "They could be enriching their/our bourgeoisie, but instead they do this?!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So I gather from this answers that none of this news articles never articulate any concrete cost that they alleged? Because I know that anything they could say would be skin deep at most but never anything substantiated but I expected something, I'll try to track down some of this news and check

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yep. At best they could argue that these decisions come with opportunity costs - China could have made more profit by allocating its money elsewhere.