Re:'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
by chadcmulligan on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:57PM
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Interesting, China has managed to lift a large proportion of its citizens in a very short time. I wasn't suggesting a Utopia, merely raising the bar so the minimum level is better than it is now, surely that should be the goal of every advanced country. The current levels of poverty are negatively influencing the next generation.
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Re:'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
by TimTheTinker on Monday April 17, 2023 @08:29PM
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> China has managed to lift a large proportion of its citizens in a very short time
You're conveniently ignoring the cultural revolution, which causes an ideological purity spiral resulting in millions dead.
China only began to prosper when they relaxed their economic policies and began to allow property/business ownership and international trade (especially with the West) back in.
Re:'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
by ertian on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:46PM
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Poverty is not eliminated in China, at all. The fact that they lifted a lot of people out of poverty doesn't necessarily mean they can lift all people out of poverty. Nobody else has achieved that. It's not as easy as you make out.
Also: the way they lifted all those people out of poverty was basically by freeing them to lift themselves out of poverty, by adopting an essentially capitalist system. You could say: they simply stopped holding people in poverty.