Look at what happened in China over the past several decades, after the Chinese government embraced international trade and market economics. The average person

Look at what happened in China over the past several decades, after the Chinese government embraced international trade and market economics. The average person there is much better off now. Hundreds of millions of people who had been trapped in subsistence poverty for many generations have been lifted into a much higher standard of living. It's such a drastic change in standard of living that it's indisputable.