No I am not nihilistic : )
I was born and raised in the UK. At the time it could have been considered a socialist country and it worked very well for a time. Nothing at all like the Chinese Communism you understand, more like an upward mobility movement with strong unions to make sure workers were looked after like the USA.
Just the same as the US, the UK elites decided that slave labor is much cheaper so they moved manufacturing to china. So now we can have companies like Amazon who dont even bother to pay agreed upon hourly rates lol A lot like Communist China really