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> labor enjoys none of the same benefits. Yet median wages and environmental protections have been trending upwards in China since they opened up in the 1970s.

• hiram112 10y ago
  Median wages have been stagnant for 30 years in the west - since the Reagan / Thatcher era. Any person or study claiming another opinion can look at the birth rate of natives and just stop there. Environmental protections have certainly increased in the West - our lakes are no longer on fire. But considering the population density of Asia and the increase in energy consumption, Mother Earth would be better off with all us gone - capitalism is not helping. As a Westerner, it shouldn't be my job to be cajoled into letting someone else win, based on flimsy arguments like this. You'd have to have been brainwashed to do such a thing. China will certainly win - should they create a society like Taiwan x 40.