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> But we are saving the lives of ~3 million people so who’s to say what is bad Korea’s GDP per capita in 1950 was similar to that of Bangladesh around the same
by rayiner 8mo ago
> But we are saving the lives of ~3 million people so who’s to say what is bad
Korea’s GDP per capita in 1950 was similar to that of Bangladesh around the same time: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/GDP-per-capita-in-1950 https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/GDP-.... In the alternate timeline where there isn’t a capitalist south korea, the Korean peninsula has 100 million+ people living in poverty and squalor, like Bangladesh today. The cost of that is tens of millions of lost lives resulting from higher infant and child mortality rates.
- nicole_express 8mo agoInteresting that your takeaway is "capitalist South Korea doesn't exist" when I also said the 38th parallel held? Also I guess now we're discussing the Repugnant Conclusion, which is a bit out of scope
- CamperBob2 8mo agoSee also the arguments that more Koreans would be alive and well today if MacArthur's plans to nuke the Norks had been greenlighted by Truman.
- kryptiskt 8mo agoThe simplest way to have no Korean war is if Kim Il-Sung decides that an invasion is too risky and concentrates on internal matters.
- keybored 8mo agoIn the altnerate timeline where there isn’t a Nazi Germany, the US might not have been such a powerhouse post-WWII on the account of so many other nations not being a pile of rubble. Really the South Koreans should thank Nazi Germany for saving it from Communism.
- rayiner 8mo agoThe U.S. was already a powerhouse before World War II. It had the highest per-capita GDP in the world (excluding some blips during the gold rush in Australia) by the late 1880s. The gap in per capita GDP between the U.S. and western europe shrunk between then and the late 20th century.
- keybored 8mo agoTake it at face valu I guess.