> How has China built far more and better than the US
It's not because Chinese workers put in so much more effort than American ones!
China supports my point, not your's. Since 1990, China has followed a model of authoritarian-capitalism: https://www.hudson.org/economics/china-banks-on-authoritaria.... The CCP provides broad industrial policy and leadership, while capitalist business owners provide technical direction and capital allocation. The post-1990 Chinese model bears a resemblance to Hamilton's "American System," a combination of state interventionism to build infrastructure and free markets to allocate capital: https://carnegieendowment.org/china-financial-markets/2017/0...
Notably, in 1990 China and India had the same per-capita GDP: https://www.bmsmoney.com/article/full/gdp-per-capita-india-v... (both were desperately poor). Today, China's is five times higher than India's. How did that happen? It wasn't because Chinese workers suddenly started putting in five times the effort. It's because Chinese leaders and business owners started doing better at their job of directing people and allocating capital. For the last 35 years Indian workers have been putting in just as much effort as Chinese workers. But thanks to the people above the workers, Chinese workers now get to live in a country that's on the precipice of breaking into first world living standards.
So who is taking credit for the other's work here? The worker, who puts in the same amount of effort, or the leadership who, if they do their jobs well, will turn that same amount of effort into modern China as opposed to modern India?
> You think America is great
I think China is great. America is good for Americans who are socialized into England's 800+ years of civic development. China provides a model the third world can follow.