From the first the annual declaration was that the USSR’s economy was about half of ours and was expanding twice as fast. Somehow the gap continued to get wider though. The government (the CIA report) and the universities have been calculating with the New Math for a lot longer than the term has been in use.
“Just Because It Sells Doesn?t Mean It Works”
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Good point!
Old saying (paraphrased): A lttle good in all bad men; A little bad in all good men...
Roughly true to some existent, but not so true anymore...
We always knew the best metal wasn’t used for horseshoes, nor the best men for soldiers...
Likewise, we now see that Made In USA doesn’t mean anything anymore...
Stuff is made for marketing and mainly sales; nobody expects anything to “last a lifetime” anymore...if it makes it home from the merchants and gets assembled alone is noteworthy...
Thus with men!
We’ve come a long way since the ‘30s and ‘40s, Baby!
You offspring of the hippy sixties and later won’t get it...
Semper Watching
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Capitalism succeeds because of self interest of humans.