Humans are better off now primarily because the imperial jackboot has been lifted off the neck of the india and china (which, together, contain quite a lot of p

Humans are better off now primarily because the imperial jackboot has been lifted off the neck of the india and china (which, together, contain quite a lot of people) and that has led to a rebound in their living conditions dragging up the averages. Sure, you can call the chinese communist party the biggest driver of wealth, education, and health in our time if you want. But I view them as parasites exploiting the labour of a billion chinese people. There is little doubt that development could proceed just as well without the exploitation and extraction performed by a layer of fabulously wealthy parasites. In fact, it would probably do better since less of the wealth would be being sequestered into nonproductive activity like luxury yachts, sex slavers, and what not, and would be available for reinvestment instead.