| >What to do with people who can not read? They can do jobs which don't require high literacy rates. Farming is such an example. The USA has plenty of Mexican immigrants who don't know English yet are still highly capable at performing manual labor. Also, as a counterexample to your point about former communist states leaving higher literacy rates: a Marxist-Leninist state existed in Benin until 1990, but they still have one of the lowest literacy rates in the world [1]. >Why should this be the case? The labor is probably lower in Benin. Yet, nobody moves there. The principle is just supply and demand. If you increase labor supply and keep demand stable, the cost of labor decreases (on the other end of this spectrum, tight labor markets drive wages higher). But considering why Benin isn't the manufacturing powerhouse of the world (with only 11.3 million people) is tightly coupled with political realities. For example: does their country need those manufacturing jobs? CAN the country support those jobs? Apparently cotton is 40% of Benin's GDP and ~80% of their official exports. Political instability in Africa generally hurts all other African nations. Perhaps the African Union will help them [2]. >All the suppliers and sub-suppliers that can work hand in hand. Oh, clustering is highly effective. There's plenty of clustering in the USA as well. That said, the CCP has much more control over all industries, so they can force clustering with greater ease. Ascribing economic success to clustering oversimplifies the broader context. >As a immigrant in both systems and a naturalized US citizen I tell you that this is not my impression. Well, as a person born and raised in the USA and surrounded by hard-working immigrant family members, I attest otherwise. Mainstream news in both China and the USA is manufactured and does not reflect the reality of how people feel. People here want change, and it's coming. Sources: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin#Education [2] https://au.int/ |