@Doctrine_Man I'm going to seriously oversimplify when I say "China's nat'l psychology has the unique advantage of communications technology to leap over what other first-world nations needed in terms of time."
So let's delve in.
US & China both emerged from an agricultural society to...
So let's delve in.
US & China both emerged from an agricultural society to...
@Doctrine_Man become an industrialized society. We led the world thanks to acreage & raw minerals, and of course two world wsrs that consumed faster than we could produce.
By the 1970s we shifted to a service-based economy, similar to England's in the early 1800s, less than a hundred years...
By the 1970s we shifted to a service-based economy, similar to England's in the early 1800s, less than a hundred years...
@Doctrine_Man after they created street lamps to provide cities with nighttime maneuverability. (You'll think "Jack The Ripper" here but it's really more like Scrooge throwing a coin at a boy to get him some food.)
England's middle class, such as it was, enjoyed & paid for services...
England's middle class, such as it was, enjoyed & paid for services...
@Doctrine_Man and the US did likewise, buying cars to zoom across country sleeping in Motel 6s that kept the light on for you and eating breakfast in a Waffle House that never closed.
China struggled through this time, trapped by its political motives.
But then we conquered the telephone...
China struggled through this time, trapped by its political motives.
But then we conquered the telephone...
@Doctrine_Man and everyone could call anyone. By the 1980s an entrepreneur in Iowa could order butane irons for Amish women looking to tidy a husband's shirt. (That's real, by the way. Still a big seller.) You call Hong Kong, a container arrives, you distribute. The phone proved vital...
@Doctrine_Man to int'l commerce. Cheap labor in China gave their industrial complex a huge jump because nations willingly helped them #evolve past agriculture towards Mass Production.
China shaved off the first 80yrs or so of industrial evolution this way despite their politics...
China shaved off the first 80yrs or so of industrial evolution this way despite their politics...
@Doctrine_Man but it meant China would simultaneously begin to develop its service-based nat'l identity while still within its industrial-based nat'l identity.
Look on the web for the photo of a Chinese man working a banana cart, doing day trading. It's equivalent to the kid behind the...
Look on the web for the photo of a Chinese man working a banana cart, doing day trading. It's equivalent to the kid behind the...
@Doctrine_Man counter at Subway who's trading Bitcoin for Dogecoin from his iPhone.
So, to oversimplify "in summary," the world put China in a prime position to catch up to the US, UK, Germany, etc. with both an industrial complex and a service-based complex, all within the information age.
So, to oversimplify "in summary," the world put China in a prime position to catch up to the US, UK, Germany, etc. with both an industrial complex and a service-based complex, all within the information age.
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