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> I have to say that "authoritarian policies" is a deceptively weak phrase for the stuff China is doing lately. Sure, call it what you want. I'm no fan of the
by darawk 8y ago
> I have to say that "authoritarian policies" is a deceptively weak phrase for the stuff China is doing lately.
Sure, call it what you want. I'm no fan of the Chinese government.
> In any case this reasoning is flawed -- the correct analogy to "China has authoritarian policies but pulled billions of people out of poverty" would be "the United States had slavery but populated a continent while creating wealth for millions of people". So the story of slavery is "much more mixed".
So, should the cotton gin makers of their day not have sold cotton gins to the plantation owners? What good would that have done?
- wrs 8y agoThe analogy is getting out of hand, but the question here is more like making ankle trackers for the slaves than making cotton gins.
- darawk 8y agoExcept that there is already a company making ankle trackers and selling it to the slave owners, but their ankle trackers chafe the slaves ankles and Google's do not. That is my point.