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USA 1776-1915 - Went from 3rd world to 1st world, fastest time ever, despite a civil war and many other challenges. India 1980-2000 - Not a libertarian country
by MCRed 12y ago
USA 1776-1915 - Went from 3rd world to 1st world, fastest time ever, despite a civil war and many other challenges.
India 1980-2000 - Not a libertarian country at all, but went from hard socialist to more moderate and doubled the average income of a billion people
China 1990-2010 - Again not a "perfect" country, but by allowing capitalism, which is another way of saying reducing regulation, produced a massive economic boom and a massive increase in prosperity.
You're correct to recognize that it is a scale of grey. Historically, countries that are more libertarian (e.g.: economic and social freedom) have better outcomes than countries that are more authoritarian.
- Coffeewine 12y agoIf you're counting the slave holding United States as a 'libertarian' society you're rather stretching the term. Beyond that, there are countless ways in which even white protestant Americans were subject to the state in the US, both locally and federally. I don't think it should count.
- MCRed 12y agoSince the basis of your response is several lies about what I said, your argument is nil.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> USA 1776-1915 - Went from 3rd world to 1st world, fastest time ever, despite a civil war and many other challenges There are so many errors here that its hard to know when to start. But lets start with this--at no time that the US existed did it bear a relation to the more developed nations of the time similar to those of a modern LDC; it was a set of reasonably wealthy colonies of the world's dominant power that was almost immediately upon independence the dominant economic power of its region. Your description confuses being born on third base with hitting a triple.