• socsa@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Again, compared to the west, China is still a poor country. Yes it is growing, and that growth has been very impressive, and there is much we can all learn from it. But to claim that China has surpassed the west in terms of eliminating poverty is simply incorrect.

    You are making a moral argument, to which I am marginally sympathetic, and backing it up with bad information.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The numbers say that people in China are now better off than people in Europe. And this is with China having to rebuild itself after a civil war and the destruction in WW2. Meanwhile, the reason the west is rich is because the west colonized the rest of humanity and has been brutally exploiting it. Claiming that the west is rich because of liberalism is factually wrong. The west is rich because it enslaved billions of people across the globe plundering their labour and resources.

      You are making a moral argument, to which I am marginally sympathetic, and backing it up with bad information.

      What specifically is the bad information you’re referring to. I’ve provided you with the actual numbers here.