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by Pigalowda 565 days ago
Why use China? I’d rather be poor in the US than rich in DRC, Sudan, Yemen, Libya, eritrea, Somalia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Haiti, etc etc

Using the second largest economy which has many mega cities you can tour on Google earth and plenty of millionaires and billionaires isn’t really the right comparison. Like using Japan or Germany.
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Jensson 565 days ago
You said 80% of the planet, China + first world nations is much more than 20% of the planets population. If you said 50% it would have been different.
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Pigalowda 565 days ago
Did he say 80%? That’s definitely pretty high. China by itself is already about 20% of the world population.
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Jensson 565 days ago
The part I quoted was: "That's a luxury life for 80% of the planet."

So yeah he said that.

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Pigalowda 565 days ago
Well, 71% of the world’s surface is ocean and about 10% is desert. So that’s over 81% of the planet. I think we can now both agree that you are completely wrong and I am completely right.
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