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I feel like there's a good joke about an atheistic (and formerly Communist) country producing Bibles for a more religious country as they beat them at their own game of capitalism, but I'm too tired to fully form it at the moment.


Perhaps that old saying "Could sell ice to the Eskimos" has been usurped. Which is probably a good thing.


Has the definition of formerly changed? :)


No. While the PRC is still nominally communist, for the most part now they just look state capitalist. It's hard to find much that's socialist/communist in their economy these days.


I mean, the ostensibly Communist country now has a higher Gini coefficient than us too [0], so the joke goes both ways.

[0]: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...




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