Fucking constants and fucking variables 88
Some pro-debtist idiot, cited by ZH, is trying to bring out the "good side" of debtism. He pulls a classic debtist trick, examining a tiny piece of history and ignoring the rest. Because he looks only at a tiny piece of the curve he conveniently misses the real constants and real variables.

Example:

The most potent recent example of this is China, where access to free markets have enabled 700 million people to be lifted out of poverty in just over 20 years.

The change in poverty is true. The cause is strictly wrong.

Look back at pre-Mao China. CHINA HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE MOST EXTREME CAPITALIST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. China invented free markets, along with arithmetic and bookkeeping and writing to keep track of free markets. Chinese have ALWAYS been the missionaries of capitalism. Europe didn't even start capitalism until 1200 AD, behind the Middle East by 1000 years and behind China by 3000 years.

Before Mao, China had "access to free markets" in the fullest and most EXTREME way for 5000 years. China's poor people were deeply poor and often starving by the millions. In 1949 Mao eliminated capitalism. China's poor people were deeply poor and often starving by the millions. The Maoist variable didn't change anything.

What was the real variable? Post-Mao leaders decided to implement a NATIONALIST INDUSTRIAL POLICY along with restoring capitalism. Since they started the NATIONALIST INDUSTRIAL POLICY, China's poor are finally moving upward, no longer starving.

A similar change happened in USA STRONG, but far less extreme. From 1700 to 1920, USA STRONG's poor people remained deeply poor, often starving by the thousands when farm crops failed or when NYC bankers decided to indulge their bloodlust. Around 1910 Fordism started spreading an UNOFFICIAL nationalist industrial policy. In 1933 FDR picked up the idea and made it official. From 1933 to 1975, USA STRONG's poor were advancing rapidly. Poor blacks were moving up even faster than poor whites. In the '70s the Tribe finally got their chance to restore debtism, first using then discarding Nixon. Since 1975 our poor people have been losing ground to the Tribe.

Japan and Korea had been running parallel to China as early adopters of Chinese capitalism. Their poor were starving UNTIL our postwar rebuilding, based strictly on Fordism, started them on the road to NATIONALIST INDUSTRIAL POLICY. Japan and Korea didn't share our 1975 problem because they're not infested by the Tribe. So Japan and Korea are still on the NATIONALIST INDUSTRIAL POLICY road, still flattening out their inequality by pulling the bottom upward.

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