Question(s): wouldn't return to the income tax schedule circa Nixon do that and more? He was no commie, was he?

The late XIXth all over. It's global too. Down here (Argentina) we have a mini me trying to act the same play.

I like you so much now than when you were a Dubya neocon! Live and learn. I must still correct you: third world was not an ordinal ranking, but a categorical differentiation, first world being advanced industrial capitalism, second world being the socialist block, third world being non-alignment.

Roflmao

Uruguay, really?

Indeed. They reject climate change, human rights (as per the UN charter) and constitutional rights (as per the US constitution and its amendments), among other things. But they don't just reject.

I'm not sure they are the "winners," yet. The dice are rolling. Till they settle, to assume Europe is Latin America is just a gamble.

They don't reject reality. They (try to) shape it, with totalitarian (which is not to say authoritarian) intent.

Come si dice... What a fucking moron, I believe it is.

Today the game has changed and goes through the engineering field. So, I wonder: What could all that energy do, refocused to transform excess capacity into a laboratory of Chinese local-rural innovation?. A source of exportable and transplantable products, mind you.

With all its faults, the international development industry, the different sub-fields of comparative political economy, whatever good (appropriate) development of physical and social infrastructure is in place in the Global South, were outgrowths of this non-domineering approach.

The problems of plenty. In the XXth century this was solved via architectural agency on part of the hegemon of an eternal dominance game.

The whole thing really belongs to a kind of Orwell/Huxley synergetic dystopia.

Tax the crap out of them. Forget Reagan, forget Clinton, bring back revolutionary Nixon negative income tax back (if you might). That's how crazy this world is today. It's not just the economy, stupid.