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To: KyrosL who wrote (68186)	11/15/2010 12:55:14 PM
From: Maurice Winn	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 220298

It's not simply the type of regime, it's also the intrinsic quality of people and their cultural norms. Humans are not fungible. I could never be a world champion boxer or sprinter, Mike Tyson would never invent the Theory of Relativity even if he had had a perfect education from conception. Humans are different from each other and groups of humans are different from each other. Having a million of me will still not result in a winning NBA basketball team. The fact that there is 1.3 billion people in China does not mean they will have the highest national GDP in total though there is admittedly a good chance given the trends. If it was definitely true, then it would have already happened. Same for India. TJ goes on about the wondrous Chinese inventing dynamite, paper and the toothpick or something as though that's a big deal. The USA just in the last 5 decades has invented staggeringly amazing things. Sure, Chinese put some gunpowder in a tube and fired a little rocket into the sky. Big deal. The USA fired a dirty great rocket and landed people on the moon, and gave them a car to drive around in. While they goofed around in a garage they invented Apple. They fiddled with Fourier and gave us CDMA. Count the patents in the USA patent office. There are as many patents as there are illegally copied DVDs in China. Mqurice