>So there was no industrial revolution in the Soviet Union? Sigh, it is a bit easier to copy things that already is invented... My next comment was: "But sure

>So there was no industrial revolution in the Soviet Union? Sigh, it is a bit easier to copy things that already is invented... My next comment was: "But sure, the technology and the scientific method has been invented. Inefficient systems can grind along for a bit, until we in the open world outcompete them." (My original point was that everything was going better since about 100-200 years ago, for the whole world. You claimed it was just technology, which is obvious -- everyone was poor before! Then I noted that without capitalism, there would probably never have been a fast industrial revolution. Now you answered with something irrelevant.) But you knew that, you just didn't have an answer. >Any jerk can edit Wikipedia. That was a small point, but you can prefer the propaganda material -- and ignore the publication with references... :-) It does make you look even more like a troll. >The current system kills people in massive numbers. >Did you just suggest to go to war to solve the hunger problem? You claimed the starvation problem motivated a change of the economic organization of the whole planet. I went over the statistics by country for hunger and noted that either: (a) The majority will be fixed by their local countries the coming decades. (b) Changing the situation for most of the rest of the hungry would demand a military intervention (with many more dead than die from lack of food for many years). But you knew that, you just didn't have an answer. >>Have you actually been to East Germany? You can't see any difference to Western Germany now Not relevant to my argument (about the size of a problem a thousand times smaller than what you want to solve). Either. But you knew that, you just didn't have an answer. You failed to adress a single one of my points! But I knew that I wasted time, before you answered. I sincerely hope you are a troll and not this intellectually dishonest.