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To: KyrosL who wrote (186302)	3/30/2012 2:27:42 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 542154

I can see how that would be happening in China. My mom visited China as part of one of the first groups when Mao was still running the place, for a month. She loved the deeply historic cities, but hated the countryside, because of the accommodations and the smell. In the rural rice-growing villages, the people collected their waste in buckets and used it to fertilize the crops - including my mom's wastes! She met a circuit doctor in a rural village that spoke English. She learned that he didn't make any more that the farmers in the village, under Mao, a communist purist. Entrepreneurs were nonexistent. Today,hundreds of millions of Chinese make more than both. But as in any early capitalist country, some will be making a LOT more - the entrepreneurs. I see that as changing over time.