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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: jwas@ix.netcom.com(jw)
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Date: 25 Nov 1996 06:10:12 GMT
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Article: 16546 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Newsgroups: alt.agriculture.misc, alt.org.earth-first, alt.politics.economics, alt.politics.greens, alt.save.the.earth, alt.sustainable.agriculture, sci.agriculture, sci.econ, sci.energy, sci.environment, talk.environment, tor.general
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Organization: Netcom
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In <JMC.96Nov17133755@Steam.stanford.edu> jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John
McCarthy) writes:
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>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.
Another one invested $2.5 billion in Wales, Great Britain.
Apparently - so the BBC said -
some categories of workers are actually less expensive
in Wales than in S. Korea (also, of course, the European market
is attractive).
>What made South Korea prosperous was capitalism, not population
>control. [...]
>No amount of depiction of starving children is a convincing argument
>that your proposed remedy will work.
*Or* that it won't work for the worse...
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