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There are majority of society and economic activity that are neutral to policitics.

Why cannot YC improve invocation by focusing on those areas?!

If your dad said harsh words to you, are you going to claim that you are made inferior to normal citizen or you are working with a repressive parent?



When you help a country get richer and that country has a history of human right violations you are aiding the tyrants running the country even if you declare yourself "neutral to politics" and even if you have the best of intentions.


Isn't China's human rights situation got vastly improved with its improved economy?


No, it hasn't: "One Million Muslim Uighurs Have Been Detained by China, the U.N. Says. Where’s the Global Outrage?" https://theintercept.com/2018/08/13/china-muslims-uighur-det...


OK OK Seems no country improved in terms of human rights. I cannot continue this nonsensical discussion.


Some have, but the topic is China. If you want to generalise it would make more sense to pick better examples.


Every successful business deal done in concert with a given dictator entrenches that dictator's power. Some other commenter demonstrated the technique elsewhere in this discussion: "but the dictators have lifted so many Chinese people out of poverty!"

Through this deal, YC is taking an active position in support of the Chinese dictatorship and is helping them increase their grip on power.


Sure, that's a good point.

But as I said, there is reasonable motivation to try to help the people genuinely. At least let them have better internet services; not the shitty ones from BAT...


> There are majority of society and economic activity that are neutral to policitics.

You may believe that but the communists do not.


The question is how non-communists think.




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