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Despite the US’s economic success, income inequality remains breathtaking. But this is no glitch – it’s the system

The Chinese did rather well in the age of globalization. In 1990, 943 million people there lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. Unfortunately, the United States was not as successful. More than 4 million Americans – 1.25% of the population – must make ends meet with less than $3 a day, more than three times as many as 35 years ago.

The data is not super consistent with the narrative of the US’s inexorable success. Sure, American productivity has zoomed ahead of that of its European peers. Only a handful of countries manage to produce more stuff per hour of work. And artificial intelligence now promises to put the United States that much further ahead.

This is not to congratulate China for its authoritarian government, for its repression of minorities or for the iron fist it deploys against any form of dissent. But it merits pondering how this undemocratic government could successfully slash its poverty rate when the richest and oldest democracy in the world wouldn’t.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It says they brought millions out of poverty, didn’t say they eliminated it entirely. Every day in America we’re intentionally and purposely driving more and more people into destitute living situations, declaring they very existence as illegal and punishable by law, and literally locking them in cages to die as a direct and act of cruelty, I’d argue there is room for comparison when you’re looking at two hyper authoritarian countries side by side. I’m not a fan of china, their government is also committing unacceptable and irredeemable acts of cruelty, but they at least have done things that actually improved the lives of some Chinese citizens, our government in America is dead set on destroying at least half of us and our ability to get by, they’re not interested in improving anything for American citizens, they literally want to ruin peoples lives on the level of entire demographics without concern for anything other than enacting expensive cruelty.

[–] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't ask them to eliminate anything in it's entirety did I? You can't even understand what's been written and come here tell me how I'm wrong to say what's what... I'm not even American, I don't care what's going on in America and you giving what's america doing wrong as a counter argument to what I said is clear you're either a Chinese troll or an ignorant person who thinks they know what they are talking about.

What China is doing is to choose who they will elevate and will give this chance by using the social credit system. Those countryside Chinese people can't freely move to the cities because they are not allowed, they don't have the opportunities like those elevated. Yeah they elevated millions while literally discarding the hundreds of millions. Not to mention the lives they ruined like Uighurs and the people they called outcasts etc... So, if you think it's such a miracle you're nothing but a naive gullible person.