all regions of the country enjoy significantly greater incomes and higher standards of living than they did at the onset of the reform period. However, also true, the great majority of the laboring population are victims of more intensive forms of economic exploitation than was the case in the pre-Deng era.The working people in both city and countryside generally enjoy greater per capita income and improved material conditions of life, as I just said, and suffer greater exploitation at the same exact time. Is it just me or does this seem rather contradictory? Let's further investigate this. Capitalism is utilized by enormously expanding both production and productivity. China did this in several ways. They had an infusion of domestic and foreign capital seeking high returns on investments, the introduction of scientific managerial methods borrowed from capitalist countries, and purchased the labor power of relatively well educated workers at very low cost. All of the afore-mentioned steps taken are subject to the discipline of both the market and the Communist State. China contains many forms of enterprises. There are state, collective, private, and bureaucratic forms of enterprise that generate huge profits. The end result of all this is that the workforce has rapidly expanded. This expansion has provided jobs for tens of millions of people. Per capita income has increased along with this as well. The wages paid to most new entrants into the industrial workforce are surprisingly low. Therein, we find how cheap labor accounts for the staggering gap between the low costs of production and the high value of what is produced. A market economy is notorious for generating inequality. This truth is evident in present-day China. Whereas China once was highly egalitarian under Mao, it is today regularly compared with unfavorable, inequitable countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, and India. The part that makes me angry is tha...
