There's no easy answer or solution to the problem of 1.3 billion people. You certainly couldn't replicate the rise of the "free USA" anymore, sadly. (Those less

There's no easy answer or solution to the problem of 1.3 billion people. You certainly couldn't replicate the rise of the "free USA" anymore, sadly. (Those less than 100m "seed people" had a whole continent sheltered by two oceans at their disposal. And even they used slavery as long as possible.) In the hierarchy of needs, a full stomach for you and your family comes before individual freedoms, free press etc. The vast majority of those 1.3b people still struggle with this. Those in power know it. They've seen the British Opiumpire, Maoism and the Cultural Revolution, anything after that was a step forward.