I can see how this theoretically might be the case, but I am unpersuaded that lifting a billion people out of abject poverty in east asia was actually bad for them because a bunch of westerners got relatively richer in the transaction as well.
I suppose this is a matter of judgement though and not an objective fact so to each their own.
> but I am unpersuaded that lifting a billion people out of abject poverty in east asia was actually bad for them because a bunch of westerners got relatively richer in the transaction as well.
That's a nice strawman you've set up, but no one in the discussion actually claimed that.
I suppose this is a matter of judgement though and not an objective fact so to each their own.