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b_b  ·  3888 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is the American Middle Class Losing Out to China and India?

    It's likely that the 300 million "middle class" Chinese are part of a population of 1.4 to 1.5 billion people. They're largely agrarian, 3rd-world poor, and lead nasty, brutish and short lives. Between 5 and 10 people die in Chinese coal mining accidents every day, for example.

Yeah, you know, rational players in the market.