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@scarylawyer: Hong Kong has myriad problems but a key issue as I see it vis a vis recent protests is that HK is a pretty shitty place to be millennial right now.

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You work/study your ass off here your whole life only to find out the mainland kids you grew up looking down upon are now taking your jobs and since rent is f'n bonkers (read: artificially inflated) you’ll be living with your parents until you’re 40.
China has nothing to do with any of that.

Its the predictable consequence of the British elite comprador class being permitted to retain control of the country post-handover. The Basic Law didn’t protect democracy, it institutionalized gross inequality.
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