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Full year results of household survey for 2024 in China just posted. Real household income and consumption rose faster than overall GDP growth. Gains to rural households are significantly higher than urban households.

@yogthos In my 2024 trip to Canada with SO, we both had to keep biting first our lip, then our tongues to avoid pointing out just how hopelessly low tech Canada is. (And how oriented everything is toward making billionaires and banks richer, like how any transaction that isn't straight cash has someone siphoning off part of it.)

@zdl it's really painful to see just how backwards everything here is