June 10, 202612:07 PM EDT:
WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he might not renew the USMCA free trade deal with Canada and Mexico. Speaking at the White House, the president said he was discussing the matter with Mexican and Canadian leaders.
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Suuure. Chinese people enjoy the fact that all the money is going to their rich. /s
No, they’re not, that’s what K-shaped means.
would either of you care to share unbiased evidence supporting your statements?
The World Inequality Database. I’d do a TL;DR, but I’d be reinventing the wheel.
It’s important to know this is about wealth, while @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca is going by income. If you’re out to defend China, you could say sure, they own less and less but the government will look after them, and make sure wages stay high. If that’s a good bet in light of history is another question.
Thank you. This is interesting information.
No problem! Glad to hear someone else appreciates it the same way.
One explanation would basically be cronyism in a country where there’s endemic corruption and the government intervenes a lot, and however it wants. It’s a pretty classic story from economies all over.
The funny thing about that is that the CCP actually tends to leave certain sectors alone, more than the West even would. It’s like a hybrid Confucian/Maoist thing where they don’t want to concern themselves with the merchant class. (All I have for evidence on that one is hearsay, sorry)
Manufacturing wages sit at 113.5K CNY. Purchase power parity factor is 3.53. That means those wages are equivalent to what US $32K per year buys you in the US. The trend is for this to grow 4-6% per year. Don’t know if Chinese welfare and high housing ownership is factored in.
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/wages-in-manufacturing https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPP?locations=CN
K-shaped means the bottom half (or some large threshold) is getting poorer. China’s bottom half appears to have rapidly growing real wages, while the top is growing faster. Most western bottom halves were fine with this arrangement, until their real wages stopped growing in the 70-80s.
I’m not super happy with either scenario but there’s a reason the majority was okay with it for decades. That was the whole deal in the New Deal.
You’re right actually, now that I check it looks like the proportional drop is big but not faster than their historical growth. That big growth means until recently it’s more ramp shaped in absolute terms.
IIRC the wealth of the bottom half actually went up proportionally during the New Deal/post-WWII, although that’s about the only peacetime period it’s ever happened in. Not sure about income, although I’d guess the same.