I tend to agree with China on this one, While I don't agree with a lot of what China does in America we have created this Disney World picture of America where

I tend to agree with China on this one, While I don't agree with a lot of what China does in America we have created this Disney World picture of America where everyone is a winner. At some point America translated equal opportunity to pursue ones dreams as equal abilities and almost everyone ignores the elephant in the room. Now I am not talking about racial or sexual identity issues I am talking about people in general. If a person does not get into college we all rally around them and demonize the big bad college to the extent that out of fear they lower their standard and inflate everyone's grades less someone be offended. This is just one example but this thinking has infected every area of public life. Now I am not a absolute meritocracy libertarian but at some level we have to judge people and their abilities on the merits, in start-ups this is self evident but as you move out to the big corporations millage varies widely. I think given China's recent past with red communism the population is hungry and this creates a merit based system. They are outpacing us because they are simply rewarding individuals based on the merits, I understand that there is corruption and nepotism in China, but the reality is the way up in the working class is merit based, we need to return to the same thing in the US as well as figure out how to create a safety net of incentives to remove those that cannot, because they end up causing more problem than they solve when they are forced to do labor that they have no passion for. If we are going to compete we have to create a system where the competent excel and the incompetent are incentivised to get out of the way.