[extropy-chat] Politics

Dirk Bruere dirk.bruere at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 13:58:35 UTC 2005


On 12/24/05, Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 12/24/05, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
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> > I would argue that Bush, being the leader of the most powerful nation on
> > earth, could easily come up in quite extropic conversations.  Now I can see
> > that the occupant of the Oval Office's sex habit are not relevant.  But his
> > attitudes toward freedom, science and so no could well be.  Other than that,
> > I agree.
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> Bush and US politics gets a lot of airplay here because most on this list
> live in his sphere of direct influence.
> If we were talking politics proportional to future effect then there would
> be a lot more here on Chinese politics, politicians and policies. China is
> currently No2 in the world when measured on a PPP basis
> http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html
> I would guess that within a decade it will have overtaken the US to become
> the major industrial power when measured in these terms.


Replying to myself...
What 10% pa growth means is that every decade the economy grows by a factor
of approx 2.5x

Dirk
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