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Comment by vFunct

14 days ago

I specifically said China eliminated poverty, not factory jobs. Not sure where you got that from.

The neoliberal trajectory is a gradual growth from agrarian economy to a services/IP economy. Factories are a step along that way.

> Americans like our plush corporate office jobs building intellectual property. We aren't oxen doing physical labor.

> So if we aren't the oxen, who is? Vietnam? And that's morally acceptable?

> Yes. They - or other poor countries - are. And it's their responsibility to grow their citizenry in a neoliberal world.

Here you clearly state that the way for vietnam to stop being oxens is by growing in a neoloberal world. Then:

> China eliminated poverty through neoliberalism. The rest of the world can, too. This is the benefit of neoliberalism

You praise China for growing this neoliberal world, but you forgot that Chineese people are still oxens.