É sempre a mesma ideia: trocar liberdade por segurança. No final você não tem nem liberdade e nem segurança.
Discussion
Can you tell me something you’re able to do that I can’t? That way I can understand why I’m considered not free.
Brazil is more and less like China. I think the only difference between Brazil and China, is that we can insult politics and we have elections. But the way of life, I think all we can do, Chineses can do too.
So for ordinary people, probably doesn't have much difference.
Yeah, we don’t have elections, but to be honest, people still complain and insult politicians in private all the time, haha.
Considering the U.S. situation, the election system isn’t always great. Changing parties every four years keeps the country in a constant swing, moving slowly.
You are not wrong. And when we have a socialist constitution that is almost impossible to change, like in Brazil, in practice works like a one party system but that is possible to change the people in power every four years.
So we delude ourselves into thinking that something will change but nothing never really changes.
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
- Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, lyrics, 'Me And Bobby Mcgee'
Can you move to another city inside the China without permission?
I heard there was a time before I was born when it wasn’t allowed, but I’m not very familiar with that part of history. After I was born, there were no restrictions at all, and the transportation was very convenient.
Hum, I saw a podcast recently from a Portuguese person saying that have restrictions, that you are only allowed to move to a new city in certain circunstancies, like if you are approved to study in a University, things like this.
What I mean by move, is change residency. Live in another city that you were not born.
I kind of know what he's talking about, but his understanding is wrong. Simply put, everyone belongs to a certain city. You can go to any city to live and work. But if you don't belong to that city, you'll lack some benefits and rights, like in aspects such as healthcare, education, and house-buying. When you meet certain conditions, you can change the city you belong to, and the conditions vary from city to city. But in recent years, the gap in benefits and rights between these two types of identities has been gradually narrowing. So this system doesn't hold much significance anymore, and it's just a matter of time before it gets abolished.
my country is same, but I thought every country have same system like this, or western counties are different?
Western countries we can live and buy houses in any city we want. No restrictions.
yup, the part "live" is same, but in my country the requirement for "buy houses" have some restrictions before, but nowadays it almost no exist. Like Cody said, it's just a matter of time before it gets fully abolished.
Property purchase restrictions mainly depend on housing prices. When prices rise too fast, the government tightens controls. But since prices are falling now, those rules are easing up. Honestly, past data shows these measures don't really work that well.