>>>>Interesting take on global issues refreshingly sparred of politics / propaganda;
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>>>If you don't count the implicit ones... like pretending that the owners of the world's finance aren't the same ones who operate in China. And pretending that countries matter much nowadays.
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>>Well they have to recuperate expenses of building and maintaining western middle classes during cold war years...
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>Yeah, right. The middle class has built all of it, and now it's being decimated over and over.


What was the size of middle class in let say 1953 ?
Look at these figures http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104547.html
Take 1935 as starting point and then watch 1945 - 1970 period in particular. This is the time when 'owners of the world' as you call them got very anxious about being swept away by expanding communism and started actually paying people for their hard work.
In the process many many people BECAME middle class. Back then many western factory workers became actually middle class, how come ? (Hence/Tip; factory worker in USSR was making what ? Or today factory worker in India is making what ?)
If there was no massive 'trickle down' of money (whole Niagara in West Europe!) back then, there would be no large size middle class 'consumer society' style as we know it today.

Exactly the same is true for ex YU. If there was no 1948 (triple-agent {g}) Tito changing sides and hopping up the same money train, our fathers (and consecutively our generations) would have had much harder time ever becoming anything close to middle class.
More or less the same economic model we had back then, was operating in East Germany or Czehoslovakia for instance, resulting in quiet different living standards back in 'golden' 70ies. And you know very well how good we had it back then :)

Now is the payback time. And we all know how good we all have it.

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>>South East Asia / China offer everything 'free marketeers' ever dreamed of achieving; Rock bottom wages at almost zero political/labor resistance. Almost as good as early capitalism / wealth accumulation years of late 19th / early 20th century.
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>XVIII, rather.
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>>Only 'problem' is that some countries there (especially China) are no longer keen on being just brainless labor pools
>>(sweating blood & smoking opium) and instead decided to retain substantial parts of those money piles for themselves.
>>To make matters worse, China started investing some of that money in Africa (and some other resource rich countries)
>>and threatens to actually purchase those resources through fair deals/prices! Holly Muggabe, Mobutu & Bokassa! That is some serious threat there! {g}
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>And then there'll be a public-private partnership and these investments will be somehow privatized... to the same old bunch of thugs.
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>>And there comes... uhm... well...
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>> 'Pacific Century' ?
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>И на тараби је тако писало, па је Милисав скрљо буџу.

:)