What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?

Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by peteretep on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:05AM (#20902476)

Nah, you threw the baby out with the bath water there; the other East Asian countries that embraced the west became much much richer much much faster after WWII.

China just managed to dramatically shit itself from the Great Leap Forward through to the early 90s, and is now undergoing the growth spurt that it’s Eastern neighbours experienced decades previously.

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Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by legulere on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:47AM (#20902613)

They are also much smaller. If you compare China to India it didn’t do that badly after all

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Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by Symmetry on Saturday September 07, 2019 @08:21AM (#20903328)

I think that if I had to live through the second half of the 20th century in either place I'd take India's moderate socialism followed by a slight loosening over China's extremes. Even if China is in a better position right this moment, it lost a lot of people getting there.

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Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by selimthegrim on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:06PM (#20904630)

You might want to tell the BJP voter base that

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