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> You can just nibble a little on the edge, and you get western society. That would be Singapore. Western societies are really great at consuming unconstraine
by odiroot 5y ago
> You can just nibble a little on the edge, and you get western society.
That would be Singapore.
Western societies are really great at consuming unconstrained amount of taxes without efficiently generating returns.
- jhoechtl 5y ago> Western societies are really great at consuming unconstrained amount of taxes without efficiently generating returns. Your personal observation, scientific fact or last nights night club small talk?
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoSeems like every week there's a "why does the west have to drop a billion bucks over a decade on X when Asia can do it for a cool ten mil in a year?" article on the front page of HN. This is pretty well researched and written about stuff, at least on the govenrment and public works side of things.