I grew up in the Mainland, it is much worse now freedom and equality wise than ever in my lifetime. Of course some foreigners only see the skyscrapers and not the concentration camps. It was the same sort of materialistic thinking that lead them to outsource everything in the first place.
If we talk about degeneration, we can also talk about Westerners parroting a totalitarian regime's talking points. It was the party that starved the people and it was the party that "saved" them. Amazing job. Meanwhile no one starved in free China (RoC) and the GDP per capita is still multiple times higher there. But I never see any of you guys talk about the supposed Taiwan miracle. It obviously don't work for that sort of propaganda.
It was rich elites like Gates, Munger & co who enabled the CCP, made them rich and created the system as it exists today - a perfect dystopian nightmare. It now comes back to bite you in the ass, many simply have not realized it yet. Just like they had no problem doing business with Russia right up to the war.
Here's a bit of Gates mental diarrhea from 12 years ago:
>But today his reinvention suffered something of a setback when he played down China's attempts to stifle dissent on the internet as "very limited".
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/25/bill-gate...
Today Bing remains the only American search engine that isn't blocked in China, because they censor like no tomorrow. Even 'be evil' Google is less evil than Bill Gates, this guy has all the money but no morals whatsoever. He's the last person in a position to lecture anyone on misinformation, his company is part of the worst misinformation network on the planet - the CCP intranet aka inside the GFW, where over a billion people are trapped viewing what is increasingly aggressive totalitarian propaganda.