Now we can all agree that both the 60's welfare state and the 80's neoliberal deregulation played huge parts in hollowing out the collective West, which was worst and why?
>>17982303Nah, it was resting and laurels and banking in the world and economic order being frozen in time and taking so much shit for granted.
>we drew a line on a graph!What is "global innovation"? What, quantitatively, is China innovating?
>>17982340>lolbertarian can't read
>>17982340It's based on enforced patents, but most patents coming out of China are for things like 6G technologies, so how much weight you actually want to put on enforced patents really depends on how much of a sinophile you are
>>17982340>>17982348Also by that graphs standards, Japan was the most innovative country in the world from 2004 to around 2015. But were they actually?
>>17982340How many people it can have in crushing poverty while pretending to be a superpower
>>17982303this is a graph of patents. This is fucking retarded. Its the US, and it has been the US since before WW2. And maybe one day it wont be but its not today and not tomorrow. the 60's welfare state did nothing. It might shock you but children who have eaten food do better and in school and children who do better in school pay more taxes and are better overall members of society. O and almost all welfare is actually not for the group it says it benefits. Like food welfare is actually for farms not for starving children.
>>17982340Innovation is not something that can be concretely defined/measured. You can check something more comprehensive like the Global Innovation Index by WIPO, where China ranks unusually high given its per captia income
>>17982303OH GREAT MOAR CHINK SHIT
