I was saying this to a friend of mine and he was seriously saying stuff like: “oh but with inflation, that means nothing, so it doesn’t count.” I thought. It was one of the most braindead things I ever heard. And so far up anti-China propaganda’s as that the sun doesn’t shine there.
Uncritical support for China lifting 800 million out of poverty
I was saying this to a friend of mine and he was seriously saying stuff like: “oh but with inflation, that means nothing, so it doesn’t count.” I thought. It was one of the most braindead things I ever heard. And so far up anti-China propaganda’s as that the sun doesn’t shine there.
Extreme poverty is about access to basic needs, there’s nothing inflation can do about someone having a sanitation network