Comment by pauldickwin

Obviously, there are drawbacks with the CCP (and Amazon), but I can tell you one damn thing for sure: those people would not have been lifted out of poverty under the socialist/communist regime of Mao. Under that regime, people were mocked and tortured for working harder than others and trying to innovate. Deng Xiaoping embraced free markets and their own flavor of capitalism to bring this net positive to China.