China Today

Much of what China is today can be attributed to Deng Xiao Ping, who gave many Chinese to have economic freedom and establish a proper economy. If you look at what happened after Deng Xiao Ping gave the people economic freedom, you will see that many people started moving to the cities where they were offered jobs by the incoming capitalistic businesses who were given access to China by Deng's economic reforms. Many people who work in the factories are offered barely anything (up to 50-70 cents an hour) but they still end up making more money than they did as farmers, or whatever they were before. Since there is so much cheap labor in China, it is easy for businesses to make money despite the fact that they have to ship their products around the world. If you look at companies like Walmart, or Apple, you will see that for the price that it takes them to produce 10,000 products in the US, they can produce 1,000,000 products in China yet still sell the products for the same price, the reason for that is: the living conditions in China are lower, people live off of less money so you can pay them less and still expect them to produce the same quality goods in larger amounts. I personally believe that while all of this modernization and economic growth is good, but the people who are working in the factories should be put in better conditions, while they are receiving money that is bettering their lives, they are still living quite close to poverty because they are getting so little pay, whether it is better or not of what they got previously. The workers should get better pay, if not they should at least be put in better living conditions because they are living in such close quarters that if one person gets sick, then that sickness could spread and infect roughly another 10-500 people and could possibly start an epidemic.

Do you think that what is happening in China is good, or that there is some sort of flaw in the system which enable companies and the government to cheat their way into things?