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> Americans like our plush corporate office jobs building intellectual property. We aren't oxen doing physical labor.

> So if we aren't the oxen, who is? Vietnam? And that's morally acceptable?

> Yes. They - or other poor countries - are. And it's their responsibility to grow their citizenry in a neoliberal world.

Here you clearly state that the way for vietnam to stop being oxens is by growing in a neoloberal world. Then:

> China eliminated poverty through neoliberalism. The rest of the world can, too. This is the benefit of neoliberalism

You praise China for growing this neoliberal world, but you forgot that Chineese people are still oxens.




Oh I did not know the Chinese economy stopped growing?


This is an example of moving the goalposts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

It's impossible to engage meaningfully with you if you're going to rely on argumentative fallacies and ignoring everything that is said to you.


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The projection here is just sad. Educate yourself.




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