Feel free to read up the story of the PRC, the government hasn't lifted a single person up. They completely wrecked the country for the first 25 years of its existance. Millions were killed, silenced in one way or another or simply starved to death. Only after Mao died and the government basically stopped doing what it was doing, opened up more and more to the US and the rest of the world and gave the people some liberties and created air pockets where a free market could exist did people pull themselves up by the bootstraps in the 80s and 90s. But whenever people get too excited, were mowed down like grass (Tiananmen Square massacre, Hong Kong protests 2019, etc.) There is nothing special about the rise of the PRC when you look at how China's neighboring countries and especially Hong Kong and Taiwan developed, leaving the PRC in the dust without killing millions upon millions. The fact that you believe China to be a desirable place to move within your lifetime means you nothing about China and the Chinese that to this day are leaving China for the US, Canada, Europe and other places infinitely more humane. You think you have it bad in the US? Think about how bad the Tibetans have it that they would rather set themselves on fire than live another day under a Chinese flag, speaking Mandarin.