Starlink is only a monopoly in locations without traditional broadband. It's not even a very good alternative in dense locations, where you compete with neighbors for bandwidth. Though perhaps they can serve enough users to influence prices a bit.
You have been hearing predictions about what might happen to China in the future for 20 years, if the nation grows too quickly in the wrong ways and doesn't solve it's impending demographic problems.
The article is saying 'China peaked in 2021 and the past two years have been a zombie economy'. It's not talking about what might happen, but about what has already happened and why the state has been hyper-focusing on security and military competition with the west for the last couple of years.
Sure, for example, as way for a researcher to generate realistic GitHub profiles to combine with realistic resumes to do field research on labor market discrimination.
Example of such research, which is common, ethical, and completely legal to do:
While I would be the first to say those squares are meaningless without context, if someone led others to believe they were the result of anything other than automatically generated posted and didn’t have a legitimate reason like the one I posted, that might potentially be fraud, especially if it was used as a basis for future economic exchanges, such as employment.
Using GitHub green squares as a basis for offering employment is as stupid as using the color of their hair. Don't play stupid games if you don't want stupid prizes.
Write an article. Share it here. Be more than just a shit-flinging monkey screaming from the sidelines.