Hello Arun, <<The college enrollments in India in 1950, 1980, and 2000 were approximately 150,000, 2 million , and 6 million. The corresponding US numbers have been approximately 2 million, 13 million, and 15 million.>>
... dunno, but ...
businessweek.com
For instance, China and India graduate a combined half-million engineers and scientists a year, vs. 60,000 in the U.S. It's the same lopsided story in life sciences.
csmonitor.com
China currently has about 20 million students pursuing higher education
findarticles.com
College enrollments may be booming here in the U.S., but China graduates twice as many students with bachelor's degrees and six times as many engineering majors as the U.S. India and Singapore are producing scientists through top-notch undergraduate programs. In 2001, India graduated almost a million more students from college than the U.S., including 100,000 more in the sciences and 60,000 more in engineering.
... would indicate that perhaps your perceptions are as incorrect as Drucker's here pekingduck.org (rather interesting, should one wish to follow the thread of arguments and counter-arguments).
Now, let us move from the not so pretty facts to the ugly truth as utterable from Freedom Mountain Kowloon and Money Rock Hong Kong:
... this whole India vs China thing is a tactic dreged up every so often, by the likes of Business Week and Economist, and now, by the likes of Stratfor and Condi Rice, as is tiny Eastern Europe and very large Brazil, mostly by wishful thinking folks who do not realize that it doesn't matter about India vs China, all that matters is that the 300 year accident is over, and it is time to move on, financial refugees everywhere.
Then there is the camp that prays India will somehow find in own interest to 'balance off' China, without ever bothering to think, or for that matter, explain why it would be in India's intererst to do the unthankful task that is a waste of time, energy, and resources, when easier pickings are so plentiful elsewhere, say ... Silicon Valley, East Africa, Australia, New Zealand (particularly) and all of Europe for that matter :0)
The accident that allowed the US to stay where it has for not so very long is (a) peace in N.America (Risk, the Board Game, gives a good idea of the validity of this inevitability while it matters), (b) empty space with plenty of resources and imported people who are adventurous, and (c) adventurous folks mostly carrying weapons, fundamentally diligent working, holding quite traditional old world values that makes the difference, and evenly balanced in communities, necessitating some sort of electoral system as no one had the chutzpa to 'unite' the lot by use of a barrel of a gun, the old fashioned and traditional way.
Now, globally speaking, big peace is guaranteed by big rockets in the few hands that matter;
There is no more empty and hospitable space that is unclaimed, except 'out there', and so now events will get interesting, requiring true innovation; and
electoral this and popular vote that, along with a deformed version of rule-of-law is now interfering with the schema that truly works, namely capitalism, in a lot of places, especially where folks confuse capitalism with electoral this and rule-of-law that.
in all of human development, survival of the fittest has been the general rule, and the rule that worked well, for the big picture.
and the fittest was mostly determined by all-out competition, not by balloting, mostly.
elections neuter the brightest, and enables the spin masters to take control; and let us not forget, hitler was a spin master who was put in office by electorates.
twisted form of rule of law hobbles action, and action generally, on average, leads to progress.
now that the accident is over, the force vectors are becoming clear, the platforms are taking shape, what happens next will be most interesting, and what tales folks spin most fascinating of all
what folks forget is that human history is mostly a story of competition, every which way (forget IPR, a load of rules designed mostly by debtors and deficitors to hobble natural progressive competition), where luck matter as much as smarts, and as matters stand, the game is as before, rules are fundamentally the same (as in no rules), only the players emerging are ... well ... intrinsically fit, fundamentally strong, proven survivors, and very poor and extremely hungry to go
Maurice? he is hoping against wish, observing not very much from down under, and ... well, just wrong, judging from trends as indicated by truth as opposed to spin as moldable from snapshots.
This is not his shortcoming. It is only a function of living on isolated island far away from hubbub.
He will want to invoke spurious points about environment this and alphabets that, which is all well and good, except that none of it truly matters.
This is precisely why it is good to taunt Maurice during the journey toward TeoTwawKi, so that the time passes amusingly, as one would putting quick lime at the roots of cranky neighbor's veggie plants, then stand away, wait, to watch him water the patch and the inevitable happens ... smoke everywhere :0)
brian h ought to be jumping in pretty soon, probably with some line of logic that says 'oh, look, everybody look, tobagojack believes that communism is good for capitalism, voting is bad for progress, and big rockets guarantees peace', as if historical truth can be summed up in a single post or that contexts do not matter.
recommendation: buy gold, not qcom, because gold does not require IPR protection, and gold protects against the electorates
chugs, j |
