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To: KyrosL who wrote (24636)	10/18/2004 3:57:16 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 306849

Hong Kong is hands down the most capitalist place on the planet. The Japanese are some of the most thrifty.

To: KyrosL who wrote (24636)	10/18/2004 4:52:58 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

There is almost no large industrialised nation which practices pure Capitalism but if we put them on a scale with the most collectivist/Socialist over on the left and the Capitalists over on the right then Japan would hardly be far left considering that there are several large nations which clearly are/were a magnitude closer to collectivism than Japan is or ever has been. The US is somewhere left of the middle having been far right as well as further left. I'd have a really hard time seeing Japan as the "least" Capitalist unless you have a completely different definition of Capitalism than is generally accepted. Here's one definition: An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.