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Comment Re:It's a big deal (Score 3, Interesting) 518

Liberalization sounds easy, but it is a painfully hard thing to do in real life. Sun Yat-sen tried to do it in China, but his ideals meant that he was pushed out of power before he could actually do much, and the replacement government was quite the disaster. The man who did bring democracy successfully to the Republic of China was Chiang Ching-kuo, whose reign was known as the "white terror".

Point is, governing well is HARD, and good intentions are not always the same results.

Comment Re:US wages have been static for forty years. (Score 1) 1167

Housing is 42% of the CPI, education is 6.4%, and medical care is 6.4%. While medical care is a bit underweighted due to the fact that insurance picks up the tab for a lot of people, the average wage information doesn't include insurance benefits either, so that is a bit of a wash.

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