Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Re: Good thing it wasn't going to happen anyway

[quote name="Chairman Mao"][quote name="laudablepuss"]That said, I'm not exactly convinced that quadrupling their econmy in 16 years requires giving everyone their own car. Is this some economic principle that I'm not familliar with?][/quote] It doesn't. The PRC is trying at least to adopt a model more akin to Europe or Japan, where cars are considerably less common among the middle class than in the United States. Its the reason that the largest flurry of rail construction in history has been unfolding in China over the last decade. [quote]By the way, has any country ever quadrupled their economy in less than two decades? If they manage only a %50-100 percent increase in that time, will it be time to drive some tanks over more students? Does anyone in China or anywhere else take this claim seriously?[/quote] Yeah, Japan did. The United States did. I have less than zero faith, however, that China can do it too. What they lack in internal consistency they make up for in loud rhetoric and nationalistic dreaming. Nearly everything done there is half-assed and shoddy, and largely a facade. All the same though this is probably in the back of the minds of some as a compelling reason to get thee into space, tout suite. A single asteroid would provide China with more mineral wealth than has been extracted from the Earth to date. That's an awfully temping prize. [/quote]