The question is if this is thanks to or instead of capitalism. I would say it's the latter. Capitalism put a lot of those 'peasants' in terrible conditions for

The question is if this is thanks to or instead of capitalism. I would say it's the latter. Capitalism put a lot of those 'peasants' in terrible conditions for a few hundred years, for the last 40 years or so things are getting slightly better and that's supposed to be thanks to capitalism? Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a fallacy for a reason.