> Fun idea It happens when you try to make sense of a crazy senseless world sometimes. > except it (predictably) didn't work at all Some would say it worked

> Fun idea It happens when you try to make sense of a crazy senseless world sometimes. > except it (predictably) didn't work at all Some would say it worked precisely as expected. > because producing steel isn't economically feasible without massive economies of scale. When you are faced with nuclear annihilation, you don't worry about economic feasibility but economic necessity. You do what needs be done. That's why war is terrible economic policy. Everyone is doing the economically infeasible. China wouldn't be where it is now if it didn't work. Maybe in the most populous country, they were able to produce one or two people who knew what they were doing? Just a thought. You are probably right though. Those bumbling chinese accidentally stumbled upon the largest economy in the world. Sometimes you get stupid lucky.