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Re: The Limits To Growth



In <JMC.96Nov17133755@Steam.stanford.edu> jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John
McCarthy) writes: 
>
>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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