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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 15h \ parent \ on: Totally forgot the government was shut down again... Politics_And_Law
What I was referring to is the rise of China from a subsistence farming economy to an industrial power. The liberalization of their economy is what I have heard people use to explain their rise more than anything else. I was not making an argument about innovation vs. the US. In the 90s China was nothing compared to what it is today. They are far from free and what you say doesn't surprise me. They, like us are probably regressing away from freedom.
For the record, I think mankind would be much better off if all nations were free to trade and each person was free to do what he/she wants to do. I sometimes imagine that we would find cures for cancer and other ills much faster if Africa was developed with strong economies where young people could learn science. Where the profit motive was stronger than the motive to use violence to gain power.
I celebrate any people pulling themselves out of poverty. It just bugs me when Americans specifically and people in the west more generally do not realize why we are so prosperous.
The USSR killed itself with socialism. Reagan and Thatcher deserve credit too but I firmly believe that the USSR would have either dropped socialism or collapsed even without Reagan. Given enough time. Socialism is like poison. You might be able to tolerate it in small doses but given enough exposure over time an economy will collapse. When you give people more freedom, over time the opposite occurs. That's my point. I don't think enough people on the right get just how disastrous socialism actually is. If they did, their actions would be very different.
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