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China's newfound prosperity is HEAVILY concentrated in ~100 huge cities. Smaller cities are poorer but livable like eastern europe. The countryside is basically
by throwaway189262 6y ago
China's newfound prosperity is HEAVILY concentrated in ~100 huge cities. Smaller cities are poorer but livable like eastern europe. The countryside is basically a third world country.
Traveling through US or Europe you won't find people living in cinderblock shacks with a dirt floor and no plumbing. In China it's still the norm outside of cities.
There's not anybody starving to death, but I wouldn't consider China a wealthy country, not even close. There's very wealthy areas but a large fraction of the population still survives on a few thousand dollars a year.
- the_gipsy 6y agoSo it's just like the US but they don't outsource the third world and don't let them starve
- throwaway189262 6y agoNobody in the US is starving. It's just not possible. The government will give you $200 a month for food and there's free meals for the poor in every major city. I've never met a homeless person that was starving and many of them turn down free food because they don't need it. As far as outsourcing, look what China is doing in Africa. Plenty of outsourcing in appalling conditions
- adrianN 6y agoI have distant relatives in a EU country who live in a mud shack with dirt floors. I think you underestimate how poor the poor parts of Europe are.
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