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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by nickff on Thursday March 20, 2014 @06:04PM (#7439178)
The only problem is that government investment has led to mixed (and often disastrous) results in the past.[1][2][3][4][5]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elusive_Quest_for_Growth

[2] http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/ca...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba

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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by wpietri on Thursday March 20, 2014 @07:15PM (#7439556)
If you know of an approach that succeeds 100% of the time, I look forward to hearing about it. But choosing North Korea as your counterexample in opposition to modest government investment in long-term poverty reduction/capital creation efforts like education and health care is a ridiculous straw man. No statistics are available, but they surely must be one of the worst.
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