alt Hacker NewsYes. They - or other poor countries - are. And it's their responsibility to grow their citizenry in a neoliberal world. Economics doesn't care about liberal concern tools.
China eliminated poverty through neoliberalism. The rest of the world can, too. This is the benefit of neoliberalism: it lifts the world out of poverty through free trade and self-selected efficiency.
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I did not know that having most of your industries run in part by government under five years planning was a neoliberal method.
Capitalism needs justification. Neoliberalism is an awful policy. Do I need to school you on the history of US foreign intervention?
Because we all know there is no amount of factory manual labour going on in China.
Did you even think for a second before writting this?
China didnt eliminate poverty, it merely shifted dirty work to other poor countries (other SE asian countries). Just like the US did. Just like all countries will do until they run out of poor countries and the pyramid scheme of globalization collapses.
Not everyone gets to have a cushy intellectual office job. Somebody has to do the coal mining.