C'mon - this is clearly untrue After WWII the US was the only country left in the world with an intact industrial base - was this period known for massive American impoverishment?
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Replying to @thespandrell
What's the real exchange between China and the West? China provides secure property rights for manufacturing (at the cost of IP theft) and ships Western consumers the output of labor The West provides innovation, ideas and insight into people to make desirable goods
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @thespandrell
If the West disappeared tomorrow China could carry on with 2000s level tech forever - who would buy their electronics and molded plastic? Other Chinese But there's another force going on in China and as the China expert I'm interested in your opinion on it
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @thespandrell
The other force? Who's actually successfully having kids in China right now? Is reproduction as women-taste driven as it seems like it would be under the circumstances where eligible men out-number nubile women?
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Under the assumption that women are selecting for men with masculine charm (and all the things associated with it) China could well wind up selecting for a generation that makes up a large portion of the biological gap between it and the West
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