alt Hacker NewsWas the mentality different when Imperial China was rich, and will it change again as it becomes richer?
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vondur • today at 9:02 PM
Just like with most Empires, that wealth was heavily concentrated with the rich and powerful, a very small group of elites.
Who was rich in Imperial China? In most travelogues I've read about China in the 1800s, there was huge and deep poverty then too.