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by gruez 1972 days ago
>China in the last 20-30 years has taken 700+ million people out of poverty so they must have done something right.

Their neighbors (taiwan, japan, korea) were lifted out of poverty even sooner, so I'm not sure whether this is indicative of anything. Your whole analogy reminds me of the how in a bull market it's pretty easy for any trader to make money, even though they might perform worse than an index fund or a monkey and a dartboard.