I frequently tweet about things that the USA could learn from Japan (mostly train related ofc) but the most important lesson any country should take from Japan is the capacity to learn lessons from other countries
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1854: Japan is an isolated feudal backwater 1954: Japan has modernized, built an empire, waged war against the world's strongest powers, got nuked twice, and is quickly rebuilding, on its way to becoming the world's second largest economy
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Tokyo went from getting firebombed into oblivion to overtaking NYC as the world's largest city in the span of 19 years--this kind of thing strikes me as worth examining
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Replying to @380kmh
Have you read “the Rise and Decline of Nations” by Mancur Olson? He has an argument as to why Japan in general saw such massive success after WWII, quite interesting.
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I haven't--any chance you can give a brief summary of this thesis?
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Basic thought is that some nations can suffer from what is called an “institutional sclerosis”—so many rent-seeking and interest groups get so entrenched as to strangle any policies that would be conducive to growth.
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Replying to @MScott_King @380kmh
have read this thesis (in papers, not in the book) and it's quite convincing A good leveling every 70 or 200 years sounds like a great idea.
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Replying to @MorlockP @MScott_King
Institutionally, definitely--tho I'd argue this is also why we should demolish most buildings after 50 years of life
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Replying to @MorlockP @MScott_King
don't be distracted by sentiment chief (besides, this is mainly a city policy--no need to do it where demand for land is low)
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it's not sentiment it's (a) the idea of giving gov more power (b) the idea of throwing away all of that investment in dollars (b) the idea of throwing away all of that investment in attention / customization
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