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This is one of the messages that need to be pushed hard - globalization - with it's implications on the "first world" global middle class - has helped make this
by InTheArena 4y ago
This is one of the messages that need to be pushed hard - globalization - with it's implications on the "first world" global middle class - has helped make this possible.
It's like talking to people opposed to GMO rice. They are fine with an ideological position that GMO foods should be eliminated until you point out the alternative is hundreds of millions dead of starvation.
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- ClumsyPilot 4y agoWhy does globalisation automatically deserve credit for progress in two major economies with the most government planning? Have evaluated alternative hypotheses? Maybe Education or Scientific Literacy or something else deserves this credit.
- anuvrat1 4y agoIt's quite easy to see, the early growth is hard carried by export of manufacturing from China and services from India. Yes, you can say, this wouldn't be possible without Chinese government infrastructure and incentives push and Indian government early push for premiere education, but that would have been useless without customers that are global markets.
- cuteboy19 4y agoThe Indian attempt at Central planning was a disaster. We are here precisely because it was abolished https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj
- jojobas 4y agoBecause they essentially exported their poverty to the first world.
- bergenty 4y agoPoverty in the first world isn’t real poverty.
- ausudhz 4y agoor probably the first world was stealing their assets (natural resources) while exporting disgrace (weapons, drugs)? You should read a bit more so you'd know for example what the opium wars have done to China and what the colonialism has done to India (both perpetrated by the same first world country) Historically India and China were always the wealthiest (up to the second industrial revolution) regions out there (as in the concept of India and China as we know now are post world war II) What we are actually seeing today is a rebalancing of wealth that is pretty much needed so that in the US a person would need to have just 1 vacation instead of 3, while in India someone can put some food in their table and allow their kids to go to college.
- koheripbal 4y agoIndian government planning??? Have you ever even been to India?
- arein3 4y agoIt is like cars in a city in a way. You can build larger roads but then more people will start driving.
- imtringued 4y agoThe road is free, what did you expect?
- imtringued 4y agoYou mean hundreds of millions of chickens? So far GMOs are practically irrelevant for feeding humans, assuming a vegan diet there is enough land to feed everyone to avoid starvation. If we assume a reasonable amount of meat consumption there is also enough land for that. I don't know why GMO advocates throw the "but everyone will starve if you don't buy my proprietary products" slogan around as if that makes them look less manipulative. It is supposed to delude people and prevent them from thinking for themselves.
- kwere 4y agoGolden rice was specifically developed for human consuption in low productivity and famine prone areas
- colinmhayes 4y agoPeople eat chicken... People wouldn't just become vegan without GMOs, they'd eat the same food and its price would go up. The US would stop exporting all its soy and asian pork farms would collapse. Without imported food asian countries would not be able to feed their populace.
- koheripbal 4y agoMore than 50% of all major crop yields are using GMO plants.