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Yeah, let's totally ignore distribution of wealth.



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"It is possible to determine in terms of money prices the sum of the income
or the wealth of a number of people. But it is nonsensical to reckon national
income or national wealth. As soon as we embark upon considerations
foreign to the reasoning of a man operating within the pale of a market
society, we are no longer helped by monetary calculation methods. The
attempts to determine in money the wealth of a nation or of the whole of
mankind are as childish as the mystic efforts to solve the riddles of the
universe by worrying about the dimensions of the pyramid of Cheops. If a
business calculation values a supply of potatoes at $100, the idea is that it
will be possible to sell it or to replace it against this sum. If a whole
entrepreneurial unit is estimated $1,000,000, it means that one expects to
sell it for this amount. But what is the meaning of the items in a statement
of a nation’s total wealth? What is the meaning of the computation’s final
result? What must be entered into it and what is to be left outside? Is it correct
or not to enclose the “value” of the country’s climate and the people’s innate
abilities and acquired skill? The businessman can convert his property into
money, but a nation cannot." - Ludwig von Mises, Human Action



S.T.A.G.E. said:
Now I know why Microsoft launched the Xbox One in China recently.

Except they're launching at $600 and with some bad math adjusted for domestic purchasing power that would be closer to an $1100 console.
I wonder how much pc parts cost in China.



Confucius says wise man should not squander wealth on malinvestments.

“The most important thing for Tianjin’s government has always been a high GDP rate. That means the government has to spend a lot of money on huge projects like this one. In China, these kinds of wasteful projects are everywhere.” - http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/marketplace-25/chinas-economic-boom-leaves-trail-ghost-cities



Blouge said:

Confucius says wise man should not squander wealth on malinvestments.

“The most important thing for Tianjin’s government has always been a high GDP rate. That means the government has to spend a lot of money on huge projects like this one. In China, these kinds of wasteful projects are everywhere.” - http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/marketplace-25/chinas-economic-boom-leaves-trail-ghost-cities

Housing bubles is a side effect of rapidly growing market. As for malinvestment, 3/4 of Chinese households assets are in real estate, while 3/4 of American household assets are in... finance. I dunno, if I had to choose I'd have opted for few square meters and roof over my head than cut paper :D Yeah, yeah I know that price of real state will be by an order of magnitude lower while taxes and costs will grow during inevitable crash of both. Still Chinese are wiser...



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The entire world will be speaking mandarin.



Does that count all the empty cities they are building just to sustain a false sense of economic growth ?



Mystro-Sama said:
The entire world will be speaking mandarin.

30% of China can't even speak Mandarin.



If they challenge the dollar, that will be a threat to Merica's interest.



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badgenome said:
Mystro-Sama said:
The entire world will be speaking mandarin.

30% of China can't even speak Mandarin.

Wiki says 2/3 of it speaks Mandarin after all, but to my recollection it's lying.