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Interesting, China has managed to lift a large proportion of its citizens in a very short time. I wasn't suggesting a Utopia, merely raising the bar so the mini
by chadcmulligan 4y ago
Interesting, China has managed to lift a large proportion of its citizens in a very short time. I wasn't suggesting a Utopia, merely raising the bar so the minimum level is better than it is now, surely that should be the goal of every advanced country. The current levels of poverty are negatively influencing the next generation.
- TimTheTinker 4y ago> China has managed to lift a large proportion of its citizens in a very short time You're conveniently ignoring the cultural revolution, which caused an ideological purity spiral resulting in millions dead. China only began to prosper when they relaxed their economic policies and began to allow property/business ownership and international trade (especially with the West) back in.
- ertian 4y agoPoverty is not eliminated in China, at all. The fact that they lifted a lot of people out of poverty doesn't necessarily mean they can lift all people out of poverty. Nobody else has achieved that. It's not as easy as you make out. Also: the way they lifted all those people out of poverty was basically by freeing them to lift themselves out of poverty, by adopting an essentially capitalist system. You could say: they simply stopped holding people in poverty.