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> but reality gets a veto. Are the Chinese working as hard as American workers? Are they productive people that produce a lot of economic output? If the answer
by x5n1 11y ago
> but reality gets a veto.
Are the Chinese working as hard as American workers? Are they productive people that produce a lot of economic output? If the answer is yes, then there is nothing reality can do for you.
- oldmanjay 11y agoThat's so simplified and dismissive that I fear it's missing the point about "reality" here. Or I'm missing what you think is the point, which I admit is possible. I'm out of my depth on economic issues.
- happyscrappy 11y agoMao's peasants worked really hard.
- x5n1 11y agoThe world did not rely on Mao's peasants. No one cared about what Mao's peasants did other than Mao.
- leoc 11y agoMost people agree that this view was decisively refuted in 1929, do they not?
- jerf 11y agoI was talking about reality, not my opinions about reality. Real reality, if I must qualify it. Where logic and reality part ways, reality wins. China may make all the rules it likes, but reality stays real. If you are dismissive of reality's impact on, ah, reality, well, I appreciate your candor, but please don't be surprised that I just mentally dropped your credibility score to zero.
- x5n1 11y agoI don't know what you are rambling about? What are the real constraints in an economy? Resources. That's about it. Everything else is virtual.