Liberal media in HK pumped up the young full of lies in HK so they would protest against a country that would provide them housing, a better quality of living and most importantly; democracy. Its a hard truth to swallow but more HK protestors killed other HK people than police vs HK protestors...
Something most people in HK dont have as an account of being a british colony for 100 years.
If we ignore 80% of food places close within a year, if I happen to be lucky enough to be able to exploit minimum wage workers enough to be sucsessfull, the highest I can aspire too is building up my one resturaunt enough that a investment fund buys my brand out and turns it into a chain, reducing the quality by so much that I turn into the KFC mr sanders, who sold his franchise, went back 10 years later and found out all the food was shit.
Its pretty consistent with Dengs/Xi's and Chinas political apparatus's understanding of how they are building socialism. The excess that neo-liberalism provides generates enough structures that can then in turn be used to advance socialism.
Its not the existance of them that matters, its how they are regulated and taxed.
If you just took billionares money (which they already do, through tax...) then there would be no incentive to build up productive forces, within the private sphere.
Scotland has happily participated in that imperialism in the past,
Id be wary of espousing this point too much, yes Scotlands upper class particpated in this, but for reference I am scottish and my ancsetors did not benefit from this trade, they where enslaved in coal mines in Scotland.
As this Scottish historian says, the colour of slavery was not black, it was green.
Are you serious?
America entered the war because France was trying and failing to maintain its slave colony in Vietnam.
The only thing America was trying to prevent was democracy from manifesting.