Modern journalists are innumerate. The numbers in this article don’t work. 270 million people world-wide were lifted out of poverty, 271 million of them in India, alone. Huh?
But far more importantly, HOW was it done? Taxing the rich? Foreign aid? Free college? Moving to the US? The article is conspicuously silent.
Perhaps . . . say it softly . . . capitalism works?
Joe Doakes
Typos happen – especially now that “layers and layers of gatekeepers” have gone through fifteen years of layoffs are are now just a metaphorical doorbell camera.
But altering the fundemantal principles of most journos’ lives? That capitalism has, at best, yuge problems, just like their profs used to say?
Good luck with that.
I can’t speak for the whole world, but in India and China, the walk towards prosperity occurred because the government backed off on socialism. Overregulation is still a big issue in both nations, as is corruption, but you can see the change in any number of metrics.