These sorts of comparisons are always in bad faith. Cuba is not a good comparison partner to the U.S., neither is China. There are so many variables in play tha

These sorts of comparisons are always in bad faith. Cuba is not a good comparison partner to the U.S., neither is China. There are so many variables in play that you have to be acting in bad faith or have a much too simplistic understanding of the world to be believing you can reduce such complex history to this single factor. A simple case to break the argument of Cuba is to look at nearby Haiti and see that conditions don't magically improve under a free market economy, there are more factors at play than that.