How could the people of Japan in the 1850s get that sort of prosperity for themselves?
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"Just move to USA/Europe" might've been the answer if the exchange had happened 150 years later. But it wasn't a choice at the time.
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This left two options: 1- "Just move" in reverse, with Western interests taking over and running Japan 2- "Build it here"
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Very fortunately for modern Japan, Meiji Japan took option 2
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If there had been massive emigration to the USA, Japan itself would have remained mired in poverty (like Sicily or Ireland did)
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With an influx of Western industries and officials, most of the resulting wealth would've been whisked out of the country (like in India)
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Instead, what happened was that Japan caught up with the West on its own terms, enriching its own people, developing its own capacities
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Replying to @380kmh
One thing to note is that it wasn't just government-run, it was a real cultural upswell that had begun even with the last Shogun
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People have to believe that they *can* do these things, that it isn't impossible (as it might have looked)
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We gotta get a panel van, some megaphones, and some flags, then drive around preaching encouraging messages like this
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Replying to @DSAorcbrand @FriarRJohn
"THE MORE WE BUILD, THE MORE WE *CAN* BUILD"
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