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Re:GM is launching a $5K tiny electric car in China made for... by harryh on Thursday September 28, 2017 @07:42AM (#15356370)
I can see how this theoretically might be the case, but I am unpersuaded that lifting a billion people out of abject poverty in east asia was actually bad for them because a bunch of westerners got relatively richer in the transaction as well.

I suppose this is a matter of judgement though and not an objective fact so to each their own.

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Re:GM is launching a $5K tiny electric car in China made for... by dragonwriter on Thursday September 28, 2017 @08:23AM (#15356553)
> but I am unpersuaded that lifting a billion people out of abject poverty in east asia was actually bad for them because a bunch of westerners got relatively richer in the transaction as well.

That's a nice strawman you've set up, but no one in the discussion actually claimed that.

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