Reply #59: China is rising out of poverty since they stopped killing each other

[AngryAmish]

For the majority of human existence China has been the most populated and wealthiest nation on earth. Education has always been revered there, primarily because of the civil service exams which were instituted over a thousand years ago.

But China lost it's way. For cultural reasons they stopped innovating like the west. Like most of mankind the scientific method was not a main cultural tool like in the west (and seeing how little it is revered in the west it is remarkable we are as advanced as we are). China was mored in civil war for almost 200 years until the 70s. There are these mass movements in China which have been tearing it apart - look up the Taiping Rebellion: twenty million human souls died and nobody in the west knows about it. Great Leap Forward - probably the worst idea in human history. Cultural Revolution.

For about the last thirty years China finally said enough and stopped killing itself.

That is why China is getting rich.