If you want to look at living standards you can compare cost of living, access to public transportation, cost of food, medicine, you name it. Its all cheaper and rapidly approaching parity with the west, if not already surpassing it. Specifically with thr

But again living standards are often highly correlated with approval of your nation and the government running it.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like there's some hostility or defensiveness and we keep talking past each other when trying to resolve it, so I'm going to drop the topic because I don't think there are actually any disagreements between us.

[–] antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If there's any hostility it was initiated by yourself my friend. Feel free to see yourself out.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -3 points 12 hours ago

If there's any hostility it was initiated by yourself my friend.

Bullshit.

Come on now think for a second here.