Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

Workers are consumers, you're blaming the working class.

Both can contribute to the problem. I'm not even blaming "the workers." I'm blaming entitled consumers.

Americans have been taught to conflate their needs with wants, so whoever takes their wants away is a bad person.

If you're sitting around waiting for the people at top to enact change, you're part of the problem. We can all do something about it, and it usually starts in our wallets.

Horrendous take. The biggest issue isn't with the workers, but the system that funnels their production to a shrinking and microscopic number of hands at the top.

Well, I wouldn't say *many* Americans need 2 jobs to *survive.*

Usually the people you're referring to aren't living as frugally as they could be, and they want to be entitled to excesses they don't need.

They're the people who can barely afford living in a major city, but moving out to the country isn't "good enough" for them.

Almost. I've seen more Chinese users surprised that the situation in the US *isn't* propaganda, like many USians needing 2 jobs just to survive, or paying incredible amounts for medical care. The bit on USians being surprised the propaganda about China being bogus is true though.

Meanwhile *the people* from both nations are realizing how much bullshit they've been fed by the media about each other.

"The Chinese oligarchs are taking over!" - US oligarchs probably

Wow, Americans really gonna kill American hegemony themselves. Like "fuck it, you oligarchs wanna fuck around?! Ni hau, mf. Time to find out."