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Re: The Limits To Growth
In article <56pv7u$kn5@news1.io.org> yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) writes:
> 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.
May I take it that Kuchinsky grants the point that it was capitalism
and not population control that made South Korea prosperous?
--
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
During the last years of the Second Millenium, the Earthmen complained
a lot.
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