[ExI] How slow is capitalism?

[Jones Murphy]

Sad to say, these Eurofascist types are not any more racist than US
conservative(including "libertarian") humanists, Will.

2011/4/29 Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>:
> Oy.  Is that the state of humanism in Europe?  Racist apologetics?
>
> On Apr 29, 2011 11:06 AM, "Mirco Romanato" <painlord2k at libero.it> wrote:
>
> Il 29/04/2011 15:46, Jones Murphy ha scritto:
>
>> You said that my facts are not facts, then documented my facts.
>> According to your old numbers, L...
>
> You said Singapore have/had a much smaller population than Libya. It is
> false. The reverse was true until a few years ago.
>
>> What is this racist nonsense about high quality Chinese?
>> The high
>> quality Chinese of Singapor...
>
> I always know this in the reverse.
> Singapore obtained independence so the Malay had the majority of the
> population in Malaysia and the Chinese in Singapore.
>
> By the way, the "quality" of people is determinate by the people asking
> them to work. For example, Chinese enterprises working in Algeria bring
> their entire workforce with them. They rarely use local workforce. Could
> this be linked to their productivity?
>
> The same is true for businessmen opening factories in China. They
> started in China before they started in the Middle East. Usually the
> order of investment is from the most rewarding to the least rewarding.
> And the manpower quality is surely a factor (but not the only one).
>
> For what I know, a little, factory owner in North Africa prefer a female
> workforce when possible, because the males are slackers. IQ, culture,
> whatever. Don't matter. At the end they are less productive than Chinese.
>
> In Europe, for example, the number of Chinese supported by the welfare
> is small (I really never heard of one), where the number of Middle
> Eastern is disproportionated to their effective number.
>
> Do you think Italians or Europeans are racists with Middle Easterns,
> Roma or Africans but not with Chinese and East Asians?
>
>> The high quality Chinese
>> begged to remain within Malaysia at that time. The development of
>> Si...
>
> My opinion is that tiny Singapore leadership was short of any easy
> choices (natural resources and likes) and, being smart, settled for the
> hard but rewarding.
>
> In the not so long run it made much more sense.
>
>> Singapore's development came from some good public policy choices, a
>> very socialistic period in...
>
> I talked about culture, also.
> If you are a Muslim inside a tribe in Libya, it is difficult you have a
> Confucian or Calvinistic work ethic. If you have, you are a misfit.
>
> Mirco
>
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