Is it better than a fate that is generally determined by how rich your parents are? I give you that there are more options in the States, but this plays a huge role. Social mobility has been declining in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...
Not saying I prefer the Chinese model, but most people prefer the idea of meritocracy to inherited wealth.
It seems much more likely to fix the US's problems with inequality rather than try to build all these institutions from scratch in China, at least in its current environment.
If your claimed good mechanism cannot reach a good outcome, what's the use or value of them.
Op said, AFAIK, is that China is doing seemingly bad thing, but if the outcome is not worse than others doing, what's the ground of criticizing?
You cannot argue that something should be citicized just because itself not from their effects...
Shooting to die == eventually will die...
European countries have free markets and most have better social mobility than the US. If you check the link in my original post you will see the US has relatively low social mobility for a developed nation.
Your comment reminds me of the attitude described in this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oyKVAjISmI
There seems to be evidence that Americans overestimate social mobility in the US while Europeans underestimate social mobility in European countries. In practice, European countries also perform better in that regard. https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/02/daily-...