Re:Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
by aminok on Monday August 01, 2016 @05:55PM
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>It's extremely nonobvious, because you're not making an argument from a position of fact but from a position of principle. Which is my point.
It is not obvious because it would require a person reading many pages of dense economic data. Obviously the average voter is not going to do that.
>but I don't know how interventionism is clearly bad when interventionist governments like China have been growing so aggressively.
China's economic growth increased substantially after it instituted pro-market reforms in the early 1980s. It also imposes far lower levels of income redistribution in the form of social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP.
You're right. It's extremely nonobvious, because you're not making an argument from a position of fact but from a position of principle. Which is my point.
If GDP is 80% lower than it should be, I think you'd be able to demonstrate that.
You know who had experienced absurd GDP growth? China. Not that I think the Chinese model is what we should strive for, but I don't know how interventionism is clearly bad when interventionist governments like China have been growing so aggressively.