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To: arun gera who wrote (64392)	5/28/2005 5:27:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<What you call signs of development, are the tools British used to get stuff out of India, not to invest in the future of India.> There was a big railway system for a start. Tucked away in Mysore there were many once-swanky buildings. Who paid for the railway construction? English capitalists by any chance? It looked like more than "tools to get stuff out of India". You do know that stuff out requires stuff in. It's trade. It wasn't slavery where no payment was required. How come a guy my age is fluent in English, had a degree and earned a bundle as an expat working in Belgium? Looks as though it wasn't all bad for the local yokels. England gave India English, and didn't even charge a royalty for using it!! How generous is that? I'd have charged 7% royalty. Millions died in famines around the world. Life was borderline everywhere in those days. Heard of the dust bowl in the wealthy USA? They didn't die by the million, but that was in a very wealthy country [for the time]. The depression wasn't a bunch of laughs either. How were a few British supposed to stop a famine? Famines have always been. It's only since the British-based industrial revolution, science, technology, trade, capitalism, etc than obesity has become an issue in India [not that it's much of a problem yet] and famines a thing of the past. Food, like oil, is now a much smaller piece of the world's GDP than 50 years ago for food, and 30 years ago for oil. Americans have dirty great SUVs on cheap oil and dirty great guts on cheap food [and little exercise - mouse-clicking isn't exercise]. <What ever little achievement of India/Indians you notice to date is only coming from less than 50 million people. The rest have not even entered the game. > The rest are not allowed in the game. It takes capital to play capitalism and India doesn't allow capital to swoop in and out. China has figured out that Boss Man bootstrapping is harder work than symbiotic back-scratching with foreign-devil capitalists. India might figure it out. Or might not. People can vote themselves poor for a long time, and do. NZ is voting itself further and further down the GDP per capita list. Mqurice