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  • rottendoubt
    rottendoubt 
    posted on Thursday, Aug 21, 2008 11:45AM [Report]
    interesting ... would have been better with a less stereotypical depiction of the chinese...
  • moonchild72
    moonchild72 
    posted on Tuesday, Aug 19, 2008 1:07PM [Report]
    Weird animation .. never saw anything like it before ..
    it's odd to see, cuz of American industry outsourcing to other countries these days.
  • issue76
    issue76 
    posted on Monday, Aug 18, 2008 10:22PM [Report]
    Adam Smith would be proud.
  • Flagday
    Flagday 
    posted on Monday, Aug 18, 2008 9:57PM [Report]
    And this formula worked for nearly 50 years.  By the end of WWII the left's affection for Communism from the 20s and 30s was pretty much thwarted already.  But there were still grumblings about the disparity between labor and management after the sacrifices of WWII.   Anyway, interesting depiction.  

    As for the coolie depiction, I think this was unusually complimentary because what it was saying was that given the right tools and capital, the coolie could be the engineer of the train.  It was saying that it's the system that makes it work, not the ethnicity, the intelligence, the strength of any given man.  
    I also think that they did show some of the downsides of capitalism.  Yeah, we had the radios but we didn't have peace.  We had the cars but we also got traffic jams, etc.

    I think this cartoon was prescient.  Today it could be redone as Meet Emperor Wei.
  • Etchy
    Etchy 
    posted on Monday, Aug 18, 2008 8:32PM [Report]
    doh,  if only they didn't have that unfortunate racist depiction of the 'coolie'...  

    horrible stereotypes aside,  the information in the video is actually pretty educational... (although leaves out most of the 'downsides' of pure capitalism of course.... )  

    one interesting thing is to compare this to the current changes in labor and productivity in China...  they've come a long way but unfortunately there's still a lot of way to go...

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