A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself.

A hiker posted a video that showed the flow of water from Yuntai Mountain Waterfall - billed as China’s tallest uninterrupted waterfall - was coming from a pipe built high into the rock face.

The clip has been liked more than 70,000 times since it was first posted on Monday. Operators of the Yuntai tourism park said that they made the “small enhancement” during the dry season so visitors would feel that their trip had been worthwhile.

“The one about how I went through all the hardship to the source of Yuntai Waterfall only to see a pipe,” the caption of the video posted by user “Farisvov” reads.

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      China is really refining capitalism into its own new monster.

      Idk who’s capitalism monster scares me the most now.

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        who’s capitalism monster

        Indeed: who is capitalism monster, really?

        Initially I thought you meant ‘whose’, but this is funnier.

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      Although- what would you consider fake nature? There is a wetland park that was artificially turned into a wetland after reclaiming farmland for it. But it’s also legitimately a wetland with all the native plants and animals that go with it and it serves the same sort of water filtration purpose of a real wetland.

      So is it fake nature?

      I am in no way a fan of capitalism, but let’s define terms here.

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        There is a vast resource of nearly all of humanity’s collective knowledge that you can tap to learn why a govt doing something doesn’t mean it’s not capitalism.

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            Yes in the sense that all communist countries are state capitalism, no in the sense that it betrays the very ideology of communism.

            If you think about it it’s very much the same structure as a big business, with the “boss” at the very top, the party being the shareholders and executives swallowing all the profits and at the bottom are all the workers getting the shaft.

            The main differences with normal capitalism is that the state here has an army, police and a full monopoly, so the party can literally do whatever they want to whoever they want within China. They don’t play by the rules, they write the rules, ie, a capitalist wet dream.

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              If every time comminism is tried, it turns into one specific bad thing, then wouldnt that mean that communism is inherently flawed?

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                I don’t think so, no. If anything it shows it’s difficult to achieve.

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                Ignoring whatever semantic arguments about socialism and communism, it’s easier to just point out that statement isn’t true.

                Employee-owned businesses are socialist - in the actual definition of socialism where capital is owned by the workers. They work fine, maybe even better than capitalist businesses.

                Fire departments are socialist - in a slightly different definition where a non-capital resource is owned by a community. They definitely work better than the capitalist versions that used to exist.

                The problem with saying anything communist always fails is that they only call it communism when it fails. When it succeeds they just call it something else.

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                If every time someone is born, they die, then wouldn’t that mean that life is inherently worthless?

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                Not necessarily, it could just mean that the vast majority of the time it would be legitimately implemented, a larger country that doesn’t like communism spends a lot of time and money interfering with it

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                    I wonder if there’s a reason why I said “the vast majority” and “legitimately implemented”

                    Nah I’m sure I only picked those words because they sound nice

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                True Communism has never been tried on a large scale. It’s always authoritarians calling themselves Communist.

                But yes, it is flawed in that humans are too tribal for it to work on a large scale.

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                  Did you really just a “not true communism”?

                  I swear tankies are a meme.

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                    I thought tankies are the ones who like the “not true communisms” of authoritarian countries. It seems to be becoming a general “person I disagree with” term nowadays. Do they usually say Communism is flawed?

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          The planet is literally on fire directly caused by capitalism.

          The housing crisis is because houses are seen as an investment vehicle instead of a basic human right.

          The inflation is caused by corporations squeezing the population as much as they can to get every little cent they can.

          Everything capitalism touch withers. There isn’t much new innovation anymore, just mega corpos buying other companies to stop the competition and lock the market.

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          What gets me about the mentality is that they blame capitalism for everything they don’t like and somehow imagine that none of those things would exist in a different system - it feels like they’ve never really thought about the reality of any other system.

          Why would people living under true real communism not want a pretty waterfall? Do workers stop wanting a nice day out when their employer is state run?