<p>“When people are free, they are free to work for a hot meal, they are free to pursue a nice income. Instead, in a Communist country, these things are meagerly assigned by the government.”</p>
<p>-In fact, it’s quite the opposite in China nowadays. Food assignments and “ration notes” are vintages of the 1970s. On the other hand, I would say that today’s China is economically and socially more capitalist than many Western developed nations (our health care system is currently completely privatized; we have almost no social security or any other kind of welfare programs; the government’s official message to everyone is to “get rich”; attending highschool and university in China costs a fortune- I remember having to pay hundreds of yuan a semester to just purchase my grade 1 text books; In fact I actually wonder what it really feels like to live in a communist, socialist society, as today’s China is completely business laissez-faire).</p>