One seeming inconsistency that stuck out at me is how he criticizes China's lack of free market behavior - he uses the pegging of the RMB to demonstrate this, which is definitely valid support for his argument - and simultaneously decries the "slave wages" paid to workers.<p>Claiming the workers are underpaid relative to the USD because of the RMB peg is one thing, but saying that they underpaid relative to their own economy (which is how I interpret "slave wages") is a very different thing. He suggests that the government is the source of these "slave wages". In what way is the government responsible for low wages for uneducated workers when those workers are in competition with many other uneducated workers in a country with a population of ~1.3 billion?<p>Is it so unreasonable that an "auntie" who cleans houses and does laundry for a living is paid about 1.25 USD / hour (approximately the rate here in Beijing) when a low-level analyst at McKinsey here makes 15,000 USD a year? In relative terms, the manual laborer doesn't seem like she's making slave wages to me.