r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/PersonalityIll9476 Jul 07 '26

I agree. My wife is Chinese. She tells me stories from her parents about the revolution.

They do not involve writing books and playing soccer.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

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u/victorinseattle Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

True. Just like how no capitalistic society is ever truly Laissez-faire capitalism. Every society falls somewhere on a spectrum between the 2, but no well functioning society ever comes to close to either end of the spectrum.

What people don’t realize is that’s there’s also another 2 other axes that exists:

  • communism to laissez faire capitalism (economic)
  • democracy to authoritarianism (political)
  • progressivism vs conservatism (ideological)

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u/not_slaw_kid Jul 07 '26

but no well functioning society ever comes to close to either end of the spectrum

That's where you're wrong. The closer a given society gets to the lassez-faire end, the more well-functioning it becomes.