Things have gotten better and progress has been made from times past, it just seems worse now because we have more access to information. We’ve come far, and have further to go!

  • Nobsi@feddit.de
    56·
    1 year ago

    Not what Guildo guy was going for but yes, horrible thing and that did improve ehm… statistics.

    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
      64·
      1 year ago

      Oh I bet it was and they’ll just ignore the great famine as being some natural thing that just happened and wasn’t due to the policies of the CCP.

      That’s how everyone I’ve met that has talked about the CCP raising people from poverty have posed it.

      • Nobsi@feddit.de
        55·
        1 year ago

        " For example, the World Bank draws a higher poverty line for upper-middle-income countries, which tries to reflect economic conditions. It sets this at $5.50 a day. China is now an upper-middle-income country, says the bank.

        About a quarter of China’s population is in poverty, according to this metric. For comparison, this is slightly higher than Brazil.

        And there is widespread income inequality. Last year, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said China still had 600 million people whose monthly income was barely 1,000 yuan ($154). He said that was not enough to rent a room in a city.

        The great leap forward is the reason so many people from extreme poverty died and reversing those changes is not liftig people out of poverty but reversing changes that put people in extreme poverty.".

        Yes, by 1980 third world country standards china has a 0.7 percent poverty rate. Thats ignoring 40 years of development of the rest of the world. And also that china is not a third world country anymore.

        Go move into a Tofu Dreg Highrise and tell me how good it looks from up there.

        • Guildo@feddit.de
          65·
          1 year ago

          You’re talking all the time like China is still a third world country. You have to decide.

          • Nobsi@feddit.de
            52·
            1 year ago

            No i am not. I literally said it isnt in 3 of my answers to you. Do you know how to read? Do you want me to communicate in Chinese with you?

              • Nobsi@feddit.de
                34·
                1 year ago

                Reversing policies that killed millions and is the reason for 800 million people being in extreme poverty does only exist in china. Yes.
                And being less shit is not a success story.
                Still a TofuDreg Dictatorship

                • Guildo@feddit.de
                  42·
                  1 year ago

                  No, the great leap forward is not the reason for it. I don’t know if you learned it, but China has also a history of colonization. Damn, the west did horrific things in China. You do everything to not recognize the problems China had before Mao.