I have no bias against the UK if that's what you're implying. In fact, I very much like English literature etc. I am just stating the fact that they have historically been a very poor society with a large divide between the haves and have-nots.
That holds for every society historically as the period we are living in is, relative to the history of civilisation, one of incredible wealth and abundance.
The question is - is our current level only an historical blip?
And that is why I don't find China's policy to "steal" IP as offensive as to some western people and hope my country to emulate some. That's how the rich got rich and hoping honesty and hard work will bring you up is naive.
