“The opposite.” So… China has moved 800 million people into extreme poverty?
Yeah, you’re gonna have to count me pretty fucking skeptical that the poor in China in 1981 were better off than the poor in China today.
I don’t hear anyone making that claim. If 40 years ago say 30% of your population could barely afford food and today it’s only 5% it still very much sucks for that 5% but it’s still objectively better for there to be less super poor people than before.
I don’t hear anyone making that claim.
That… that’s literally the claim the article is making.
Yeah, but you don’t hear it.
You have been banned from /r/china
And they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you darn data.
We find extreme poverty increased dramatically during the market reforms of the 1990s. It reached a peak of 68% as price deregulation pushed up the cost of basic food and housing, cutting the buying power of low-income people.
Lol, their point is that China doesn’t do enough socialism. Which is fair, especially for the healthcare
This article is a classic “find some stats to back up my political position” nonsense. They admit that the world bank findings directly contradict what they want and so redefine “purchasing power parity” to suit their needs. Apparently a more socialist weighing of “basic needs” better suits an argument for socialism? Then they make the somewhat bizarre assertion that socialist China had better life expectancy and infant mortality than Indonesia, Brazil, and India at that time. Maybe that’s true, but wtf does it have to do with the merits of socialism?
Lee Duna has a pretty clear agenda lol
Might be based out of Fort Liberty for all we know
