She explained that none of my classmates had access to nail polish, so I should try not to make them feel bad. I was too young to understand: Socialism had made China too poor to afford basic goods like nail polish. No one I knew owned or used nail polish. Had I been older, perhaps I would have understood why there was not enough nail polish for everybody. As a result, it is now the second largest economy in the world, and nail polish is no longer a scarcity.

Source: Fox News March 18, 2019 10:52 UTC