[Nonstatist]

Far more than half of China has a standard of living worse than many third world nations. Its ridiculous to compare apples and oranges.

Growing an economy 6 times the size of China with 70 % less people as fast as we do is a testament to our overall productivity and efficiency.

[Racehorse]

Far more than half of China has a standard of living worse than many third world nations. Its ridiculous to compare apples and oranges.

What this seems to say is you're not interested in comparing the growth of world economies but prefer to measure the "standard of living" of various groups within some inconvenient national border.  What is the advantage in doing that?

[jb6]

Far more than half of China has a standard of living worse than many third world nations

Yup, and our products are made by that slave labor. How nice. China's comparitive advantage is slave labor and don't for a moment think that they'll give that up.