[AnimalMuppet]

What about it makes it dishonest? What do you think would be an honest comparison? And, if you do it, what numbers do you get?

[refurb]

Where to start? Comparing a 10 year US period to a 20 year period? Seems awfully selective.

Let's do a side by side comparison? 2018 to 2023? 2023 is the last year with solid numbers.

US: 12% real GDP growth

China: 26% real GDP growth

Sounds impressive, until you account for the base.

US: +$2.4T USD

China: +$3.64T USD

Yikes! 4x the number of people, but 0.5x the GDP growth.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Comparing a 10 year US period to a 20 year period? Seems awfully selective

Yes, I chose the strongest form of the other side’s argument to show that even then, it’s difficult to argue that Chinese PPP GDP/c is approaching American levels within a generation. (Though China’s numbers don’t vary much between 10 and 20 years, America’s do since we had a lot of war and then economic stimulus in the 2000s.)

> 2018 to 2023?

You want to make multi-decade projections off a pandemic baseline?

> 4x the number of people, but 0.5x the GDP growth

Per capita means per person. Purchasing power means real production. The question was about potential living standards, not aggregate might.