September 10
2003
Stop the presses!
» Posted on September 10, 2003 10:37 PM » Category:
George Monbiot has writen something sensible:

Just as dangerously, while self-reliance may be feasible for the richer nations, most of the poorer countries simply do not possess a domestic market of sufficient size to make the manufacturing of complex products worthwhile. Suggest to an Ethiopian economist that her nation should have a computing industry of its own, serving only its own market, and she would laugh in your face. Because the market is small, each computer would cost many times as much as those produced in the rich world. Their comparative purchasing power would then become even weaker, and the technology they wanted would fall still further out of reach. If Ethiopian businesses, hospitals and universities were to be viable, they would have to import their computers from abroad, as they do today.


It is, I suppose, rather like the fabled monkeys being locked in a room with a typewriter for eternity. Almost everything they write would be gibberish. Eventually, though, they'd type the complete works of Shakespeare.

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Sort it out Stephen - what Moonbat obviously means us to take from that is:
a) many countries can't support a self-sufficient industry X
b) self-sufficiency is i) a priori good and ii) environmentally friendly
c) therefore no country should have industry X as it is a priori bad and environmentally unfriendly...

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