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Re: The Limits To Growth



John McCarthy (jmc@Steam.stanford.edu) wrote:

: I remember when the ads urging aid to starving children had pictures
: of South Korean children and when those who had opposed defeating the
: North Korean conquest complained about South Korean workers being paid
: $25 per month.  Now labor costs in South Korea are $1500 per month,
: and a South Korean company built a factory in Hanoi to make TV tubes.
: In Hanoi the workers make $50 per month and never strike.

: What made South Korea prosperous was capitalism, not population
: control. 

It is always amusing when Libertarians praise an extremely statist
economic system such as the one in South Korea, or of the other "Tigers" 
that are only recently becoming less statist. 

What is it, opportunism -- or plain ignorance?

Yuri.
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           **    Yuri Kuchinsky in Toronto   **
  -- a webpage like any other...  http://www.io.org/~yuku  --
 
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being 
unable to sit still in a room    ||    B. Pascal


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