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Have you noticed the internet? That's western innovation. There are lots of other examples all around you from the (gmo) food you eat, the medicines you take, the media you consume. There are also many Chinese companies that are now doing very well with renewable tech and EVs - the innovation for these is came from the ownership and competition when the introduction of capitalistic concepts were allowed and encouraged in China.
That's the point. It's not a deflection. Capitalism works to encourage innovation. You call it a deflection because what - it deflects the point you are tenuously grasping to try and make? In contrast, communism fails when people just follow the system based on outdated technology because there's no incentive to find a better way. Obviously some innovation occurred in other systems, but it has to be legislated and managed specifically, whereas by rewarding investment in innovation by allowing ownership has clearly helped speed innovation. That you might argue otherwise is laughable. There are plenty of downsides to capitalism; it's hilarious that you are fighting the one clear benifit of it.
You still have not provided a metric that can be used for any basis of comparison. I can play that game too!
You mean the computing project that is built on fundamentally anarchist ideas that is currently being appropriated and destroyed by capitalist interests?
You mean the field of science pioneered by Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeev-Ressovsky in fascist Germany and expanded on his return to the USSR?^1^
I live in a capitalist country. I can not afford medicine.
I can tell that's the media that you seem to exclusively consume, but that is far from the universal experience you think it is.
This is not the contradiction you think it is, look into it more.
It is deflecting and this is the thought terminating cliche I called before you used it.
China is communist when it's convenient for your position and capitalist when it's inconvenient? Define your terms and stop with the goalpost moving. I defined metrics for 2 of your arguments which you susequently immediately dropped and deflected to some other cliche. Your turn.
By what metric do you compare?
^1 I am intentionally misrepresenting some things here, but surprise me and demonstrate some research skills.^
It's so funny that you are the exact cliche and unsubstantiated claim generator that you project on me. Ah well, you enjoy your closed bubble, I'm not bothered enough to help you any more. I'll let you have the last word now.
Did you gloss over where I said "I can play that game too."? The point was to hold up a mirror for you.
You could've tried substantiating your claims.
You could've tried defining a metric of comparison.
Instead you accuse me of not being "open-minded" to your mindless mantras that you hold close and refuse to evaluate.