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Re:Jared Diamond: A Reply to His Critics by WalterBright on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:14PM (#36272433)
Sounds like nonsense - the US straddles an entire continent. At the opposite geographical extreme we have Taiwan and Japan, both highly successful free markets.
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Re:Jared Diamond: A Reply to His Critics by chongli on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:25PM (#36272555)
The US was colonized, it didn't spring forth from pre-history this way. Diamond's theory is about the foundations of civilization and how they led to the broad strokes of history, not about modern events.
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Re:Jared Diamond: A Reply to His Critics by WalterBright on Saturday June 10, 2023 @02:56PM (#36273731)
South America was colonized at the same time, but they didn't recognize rights and never amounted to much economically.
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Re:Jared Diamond: A Reply to His Critics by chongli on Saturday June 10, 2023 @03:46PM (#36274325)
South America was pretty much entirely a jungle-covered mineral colony. Resource curse theory applies.
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Re:Jared Diamond: A Reply to His Critics by WalterBright on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:00PM (#36283823)
I'm not buying those excuses. SA failed to prosper because they had unfree economies. Chile has prospered when it went more free market, and regressed when it turned away from them.
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