The Atlantic: Better Schools Won’t Fix America

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https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/mapping-chinas-middle-class

The explosive growth of China’s emerging middle class has brought sweeping economic change and social transformation—and it’s not over yet. By 2022, our research suggests, more than 75 percent of China’s urban consumers will earn 60,000 to 229,000 renminbi ($9,000 to $34,000) a year.1
In purchasing-power-parity terms, that range is between the average income of Brazil and Italy. Just 4 percent of urban Chinese households were within it in 2000—but 68 percent were in 2012.2 In the decade ahead, the middle class’s continued expansion will be powered by labor-market and policy initiatives that push wages up, financial reforms that stimulate employment and income growth, and the rising role of private enterprise, which should encourage productivity and help more income accrue to households.

It is easy who have never visited the US to sit in China and write relentlessly negative stories about the US, racism, poverty, healthcare, educational inequalities, etc., etc. Anyone who lives in US will say yes…, but…, in reality it’s not like that. The same applies in reverse. In real life, life in China is simply not as horrible as current popular propaganda wants to claim.