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  1. That’s not a very long piece, but it cuts to the heart of the matter. I was particularly nodding my head over “(totalitarian) governments use markets to create wealth that can be directed as political officials see fit – mostly to themselves, of course.”

    We get a lot of Chinese exchange students, the children of the new rich. I noticed that despite the one-child policy, these teenagers have more than one sibling. It’s difficult to imagine that sort of corruption: elites get to reproduce; the commonplace people submit to the cultura of death.