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    From businessinsider.com

    At 122 billionaires, China has the second-largest concentration of billionaires in the world, according to Forbes. Yet 13% of China's population lives on less than $1.25 a day. China has a high Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality. In fact, during his outgoing speech at the 2012 National People's Congress, then president Hu Jintao said China should try and double its 2010 per capita income for urban and rural residents by 2020. The Communist Party is weary of the growing wealth gap because of the risk it poses in the form of social unrest. To show just how disparate the lifestyle of wealthy Chinese is ... (full story)

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this every, even in USA same picture exit in a slightly different version.
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Yet 13% of China's population lives on less than $1.25 a day.

Indeed, because they're subsistence farming peasants and $1.25 is adequate to their subsistence needs, just like it is for 80% of the rest of the poor on planet Earth. What? Should they each have a home mortgage, a vehicle loan and a crap job in the office to be okay?

And another thing: the most stunning picture of all is missing...

no 23: the Kung Fu Panda
venzen has a point. Westernization is way overrated
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Indeed, because they're subsistence farming peasants and $1.25 is adequate to their subsistence needs, just like it is for 80% of the rest of the poor on planet Earth. What? Should they each have a home mortgage, a vehicle loan and a crap job in the office to be okay?

And another thing: the most stunning picture of all is missing...

no 23: the Kung Fu Panda
That's right. Let them eat cake.
backinblack, that's not what i'm saying. I live in Asia and I grew up in Africa with a childhood in the villages. The yardstick of how many Dollars people live on a day is nonsense. Just because it's 1.25 or 1.01 $/day doesn't mean the peasants look like Ethiopians during the Famine or are pleading with their God for UN Food Aid. The countryside provides ample (sometimes free) food and water comes from the sky and rivers and dams. Yes they are more vulnerable to calamity but their quality of life is way better than most city-dwellers can imagine. Its a different world amongst the rural people and those that seek to go beyond it do so with difficulty, but visit them now see the the smiling faces and the body fat. Some bourgoise journalist saying they're hard done by because of some income disparity between Shanghai hi-life and Setchuan province rice farmer is misguided and politically naive. That's what I'm saying. These are the very same peasants that kept Castro, Guevara and the guerillas fed and supplied for years. The peasants are tough and proud and know how to survive. $1.25 kleenex is ridiculous to them, but the writer would soon perish without it
Quoting venzen
backinblack, that's not what i'm saying. I live in Asia and I grew up in Africa with a childhood in the villages. The yardstick of how many Dollars people live on a day is nonsense. Just because it's 1.25 or 1.01 $/day doesn't mean the peasants look like Ethiopians during the Famine or are pleading with their God for UN Food Aid. The countryside provides ample (sometimes free) food and water comes from the sky and rivers and dams. Yes they are more vulnerable to calamity but their quality of life is way better than most city-dwellers can imagine....
Author of the article is focused on Beijing city dwellers mostly.There is a huge and growing income and wealth disparity in the world and it's quite sickening to get to see it all.
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Author of the article is focused on Beijing city dwellers mostly.There is a huge and growing income and wealth disparity in the world and it's quite sickening to get to see it all.
Quite so. But it isn't a China only phenomena.....it is, as you say, global. So to single out China as this article does, and as bloomberg.propaganda so loves to do is wearing very thin indeed........
China has not changed in 5000 years and will take many many more decades to become a democracy.
The poor people's dinner table is filled with pretty tasty looking food and beer (and surrounded by happy looking faces), while the wealthy coffee shop dudes look like they are having a hard time eating whatever overpriced crap they seem to have been served.
This kind of images we could take in any country in the world ... USA included. We might need to look harder
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China has not changed in 5000 years and will take many many more decades to become a democracy.
...and that will definitely be the ruin of them all !!
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