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China’s share of global industrial production, which was 6% in 2000, is projected to reach 45% by 2030. (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Working in factories or on construction sites is for losers anyway, smart people work in offices writing code or trading stocks - those are the high paying jobs, ergo it stands to reason that a country is better off the more people it has doing those kinds of jobs, ideally 100% of the population for maximum profit.

This is too on the nose, and it would be funny, if India were not the most populous country on the planet with dire HDI metrics and poverty worse than many beleaguered nations. At least some of these sepoys still go into medicine and civil engineering, but yeah…that country is fucked

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

You'd think that's too far fetched even for a joke that someone would have a take like that but it's not as far from reality as you'd think. I've known people who genuinely seem to believe that we've evolved past the need for industry and we can all just write apps for a living.