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I'd sure as shit rather live in China than India. I'd rather live in Cuba than Haiti, I'd rather live in Vietnam than Myanmar, I'd rather have lived in the USSR than the vast majority of Africa.
Turns out, the only capitalist countries that communist countries didn't do better than are the ones that got wealthy through centuries of brutal colonialism, exploitation, and slavery. Communist countries managed to develop in a fraction of the time, and with a fraction of the human misery, that it took places like the USA and Britain.
Ah yes, India, Haiti, and Myanmar. Definitely what people instantly think of when prompted for the average modern capitalist democracy rather than the us, uk, denmark, sweden, norway, germany, netherlands...cherry pick a bit harder and you might start making sense
Correct, other than extremely self-absorbed westerners who don't know that the rest of the world exists and that non-white people are people too.
You're literally the one demanding that we cherry pick here, man.
Those were your picks for the average capitalist democracy but I'm the one cherry picking? Lmao
Correct, yes. I'm not sure what your confusion is.
Do you have actual point, beyond performative incredulity and slurs?
I notice none of the countries you used as "Average capitalist democracies" (which were all western, European, colonialist states that had gotten rich off exploitation before they were even democratic, for some reason) aren't in the middle of the list (the completely nonobjective list with an arbitrary methidology) either.
I guess your selection was just bad faith coping garbage.
If all you're trying to prove is that rich countries are richer than poor countries; no kidding.