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2 people · 5 quotes · 19 Dec 2019 to 25 Jan 2024
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“So 1,000,000,000 people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last twenty years. Why? Because obviously India and China adopted a free market model.”
Druckenmiller argues that for every billionaire created, 400,000 people exited extreme poverty over the same period.
“And with regard to all this other talk about billionaires and so forth. So during that same period, you've created 2,500 billionaires, but you've brought a billion people out of poverty.”
“Let's just take poverty in The United States. It was 26% a few decades ago. It was 16% in the financial crisis, and it's 13% now. It's at an all time low.”
Gurley argues Deng Xiaoping brought 500 million people out of poverty through capitalism, more than any altruist.
“Ding Xiaoping, who brought capitalism to China and brought 500,000,000, 500,000,000 people out of poverty.”
Gurley argues Deng Xiaoping brought 500 million people out of poverty through capitalism, more than any altruist or socialist.
“No other human being, not not the most no, no, you know, not Mother Teresa, not like no altruist, no socialist has come anywhere close to this number that was done merely by unleashing the human potential that was latent inside of China by allowing for idea sharing and commerce”