A few updates.

capitalism_doesnt_work.md

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 - [80% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/us-economy-workers-paycheck-robert-reich), 40% cannot cover a [$400 emergency.](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/federal-reserve-more-than-4-out-of-10-americans-do-not-even-have-enough-money-to-cover-an-unexpected-400-expense)
 - [The bottom half of US citizens have a combined negative net worth.](https://www.timesunion.com/technology/businessinsider/article/One-brutal-sentence-captures-what-a-disaster-13882763.php) [Average US household carries ~$140k in debt. Median household income only $60k](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/11/18/a-foolish-take-heres-how-much-debt-the-average-us-household-owes/107651700/).
 - [52% of young adults live with their parents, for the first time since the great depression.](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-live-with-their-parents-for-the-first-time-since-the-great-depression/), [1](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/goodbye-american-dream-the-average-u-s-household-is-137063-in-debt-and-38-4-of-millennials-live-with-their-parents) Younger generations, with dwindling opportunities, feeling disposable and unwanted under late capitalism, suffer from a [burnout epidemic](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work). Many have [stopped pursuing romantic relationships](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex), and [having children.](https://www.curbed.com/2019/7/19/20700379/raising-kids-cities-family-friendly) [Deaths of despair have skyrocketed, especially among those who never went to college.](https://archive.is/XSvWD)  [2](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hikikomori-japan), 
-- [~ 1/4th of US workers are trapped in the gig economy as of 2019.](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/gig-economy-us-trump-uber-california-robert-reich)
+- [~ 1/4th of US workers are trapped in the gig economy as of 2019.](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/gig-economy-us-trump-uber-california-robert-reich) [Update: 1 / 3 as of 2021](https://www.vox.com/recode/22651953/americans-gig-independent-workers-benefits-vacation-health-care-inequality).
 - [70% of US citizens say they are struggling financially.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/70-americans-are-struggling-financially/) In the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, [Unemployment claims went to 6.6M in one week, compared to ~700k at the peak of the great depression. Food banks are running out of food in places like New York and Pittsburgh, and hospitals are short on ventilators needed to keep people alive.](https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1246607221846310917?s=20) [Lines outside an NY soup kitchen, May 2020.](https://twitter.com/ajitxsingh/status/1257120222323961857?s=20) Americans turn to [shoplifting food as 1 in 8 are food insecure as of late 2020.](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/stealing-to-survive-more-americans-are-shoplifting-food-as-aid-runs-out-in-the-pandemic/) 
 - [8 men control as much wealth as half the worlds population.](https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/meet-the-8-men-who-control-half-the-worlds-wealth.html). Anyone wanna take a guess at how this game of monopoly ends?
 - [Capitalist monopolies in media, food, energy, and transportation, mostly controlled by ~200 powerful shareholders.](https://imgur.com/a/xgnEp)

socialism_faq.md

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 - "Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation." - Arundhati Roy.
 - [What is imperialism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/capitalism_in_decay/comments/cjp4yu/a_medium_length_eli15_answer_to_the_question_what/)
 - [The CIA, Gene sharp, and it's pacifist color revolution regime change tactics. ](https://web.archive.org/web/20130503221026/http://www.dailycensored.com/the-cia-and-nonviolent-resistance-3/)
+- [Regime Change Agent: Gene Sharp's liberal non-violence.](https://nonsite.org/change-agent-gene-sharps-neoliberal-nonviolence-part-one/)
 - [Was the civil rights struggle in the US really nonviolent?](http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/62/the-civil-rights-movement-in-mississippi-on-violence-and-nonviolence) [Malcolm X - message to the grassroots. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku2JzolPt50)
     - [FBI cointel directives on "nonviolent" groups.](https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/814)
 - [Is a state really necessary to transition into communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/f0l14l/why_is_a_state_necessary_to_transition_into/)
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 * [China pushing forward Marxist training in colleges, attracts 1M students.](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/988795.shtml)
 * [China tells the US that it has no plans to weaken the role of its State-Owned-Enterprises, one of the US's main demands in the trade war. "Beijing plans to make the state economy stronger, bigger, and better."](https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3038993/china-wont-give-its-state-led-economic-model-top-trade?fbclid=IwAR2ys8_Y_6Nxq2x__BM4SoKdR63it7X_JRy1XJdkLw4QrK0VQ77mXYyrcks)
 * [A China misinformation Megathread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/c2b7ma/china_megathread_everything_a_leftist_must_know/)
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 ### Is China a Democracy?
 
 * [Is China a democracy?](https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-democracy-does-the-China-have/answer/Godfree-Roberts?share=0ac8c628&srid=JMzz)