2 ms·
Both the New Deal and the Chinese system accelerated electrification and running water in rural areas by decades. There's a lot of "quality of life" there that
by refenestrator 6y ago
Both the New Deal and the Chinese system accelerated electrification and running water in rural areas by decades.
There's a lot of "quality of life" there that gets missed when people zoom all the way out and talk about state involvement, GDP and freedom.
- donovanian 6y ago> There's a lot of "quality of life" there I guess you'd have to ignore what Deidre McCloskey describes as the Great Enrichment of liberal democracies: "[...] a rise in real wages 1800 to the present by a factor of 10 or 30 or (allowing for improved quality of goods) 100, which is to say 900 or 2,900 or 9,900 percent" [1] Meanwhile there's a certain propensity for incredible inhumanity, eugenics (in the case of the 1920s Progressive movement) and the outright abuse and "reeducation" of minority races in China. [1]: http://www.deirdremccloskey.org/docs/pdf/IndiaPaperMcCloskey.pdf http://www.deirdremccloskey.org/docs/pdf/IndiaPaperMcCloskey...
- refenestrator 6y ago"1800 to present" is very much inclusive of the New Deal.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]