There's a hugely popular TV show in China called "If You Are the One." Imagine a bevy of comely young women placed behind an on-stage long, gently radiused counter and a guy standing before them being interviewed. Objective: get a date. If you can see that in your mind's eye, you have the picture.
This show draws viewers like mad, so many that the Chinese government has become worried. It has now ratcheted back on: (1) "If You Are the One," adding a Communist official to the mix of three who produce the show, and (2) the type of show (there are other popular similar programs), cutting the genre back by about half.
This tells us two things, doesn't it? One is that China's controlled capitalism is to a great extent very much controlled, and, two, that the United States is still the place for free access to success. I'm a China fan, by the way, but one of the interesting things about the United States is that no one here begrudges success — not the government and not the citizens. The Gallup Poll (as heard weekly on "Marketplace Money") seems to find that most of us don't care if people are successful and make millions or even billions, they just want jobs, the chance to get ahead and a fair shake.
