To: Maurice Winn who wrote (98480 ) 2/2/2013 3:04:10 PM From: GPS Info Read Replies (2) | Respond to Why on Earth would "the Asian giant" want to do anything about it other than increase the pace that the cheap labour supply runs out? The first is that you may well be building the wrong thing. Becoming a very specialized cog in the global manufacturing system, in this particular way, doesn’t quite seem to set you up for the transition to a knowledge society, perhaps because all you’ve had to do, to get to this point, is solve a bunch of engineering problems. You’ve got the external trappings of modernity – without a Parliament, or real laws, or a Newton, or independent universities, or genuine newspapers, or a working system for the protection of patents and other kinds of intellectual property, or any of the other vital organs of a real modern society… Because those things take a little longer to develop, and require a somewhat different political system. So there’s a transition needed, at this point, to another, rather dissimilar kind of society, and many new opportunities for failure, or very qualified success, along the way.Viewed from the mentality of people who enjoy having slaves, it's disappointing, but decent people would be pleased to have a vast horde of poverty alleviated.
