Isn't he just saying in a roundabout way, the new elite are defined as rich, educated and successful (rather from aristocracy)?
If one is in that position, why would they need or want to relate to the poor and uneducated?
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If one is in that position, why would they need or want to relate to the poor and uneducated?
This is just flat out robbery
I am not even a yank and this makes me mad. If I was an American I would be calling for revolution
As stated in the article, assuming we do figure out how to make people live forever (or a very long time), Who is allowed to use it? The rich? The fastest? Strongest? Smartest?
Everyone can't live forever, there would be too many people. Unless we move to colonize space of course.
Back to work..
$15,000 USD goes a LONG way with living costs like this.
Interesting.
It is acknowledged that somewhere around 25% of the population is now middle class.
"A McKinsey report, Preparing for China’s Urban Billion, predicts that China’s urban population will expand from 604 million in 2008 to 926 million in 2025, and hit the one billion mark (out of a total population of 1.5 billion) by 2030. By 2025, China’s urban economy will generate over 90 percent of its GDP, over 200 of China’s cities will have more than one million residents, and approximately 70 percent of its urban population will be middle class."
and
"While China's middle class right now consists of only a quarter of the population, they are set to grow to nearly half the total population by 2020, according to Euromonitor. That means that 700 million out of the estimated 1.45 billion people of 2020 will have an income of roughly between 80,000RMB (11,800USD) to 120,000RMB (17,700USD) a year."
So should India keep allowing expansion of their peasant classes / caste? Should the "untouchables" (lowest caste / class) continue to be allowed to have 7 or 8 kids in India? Is creating huge numbers of more poverty stricken people in the lowest caste, the best for India? Will they make it even up one caste level (let alone "middle class")?
Both countries are far from perfect, my point is that China has the upper hand over India.
Wars and huge government squandering TRILLIONS of the hard working American people's tax dollars. It is a shame isn't it? America was doing so well...
What would be the other options? A democracy where 700 million peasants are voting as a majority to elect a party that gives the best health care and farm subsidies? (instead of the best interests of the country)
Other than that, I think he is wrong. India may produce many managers of companies but it does not matter. The chinese will just buy the companies of the world and keep existing managers on staff as employees. The chinese don't really need to show their faces, they just hold the money, the shares and set the rules. (the golden rule. those who hold the gold, makes the rules)
Next, China has a leg up for infrastructure, it is pretty awesome how fast they are building airports, road networks, train systems, power grids, water processing, energy creation, real estate and entire cities. India can't even clean the garbage from their streets let alone agree on major infrastructure investments. New infrastructure spurs and even creates whole new local domestic economies on many levels.
One party rule. Basically, the party can plan the next 5 years, next 50 years and 100 years and execute in amazing detail. They can and do get their best party minds together and plan what is good for the people and actually do it. Can many other countries do the same? Can you see India planning for the next 2 years, let alone 50 years?
English language. They start very young to learn English now in school, it is mandatory. There are 6 million university graduates per year. In 5-10 years, there will be 6-10 million english speaking graduates coming from China - PER YEAR.
Energy. Both china and india are net importers of energy. China is making deals to get Energy (ie. oil) everywhere and anywhere they can. Nigeria, Yemen, Saudi, Iran, Iraq, Caribbean, Canada and every place on the planet they can get it from. Everywhere the 'West' thinks it is not moral, the Chinese are there building infrastructure, making deals and securing energy for their people. Smart. What is India doing to secure their future energy needs?
Middle class. Have you been there to see the 300+ million people that are now buying apartments, cars, make up, creams, designer clothes et al.? Yup, more people than all of the USA is their newly created middle class. Beijing alone is putting 1000 new cars on the road EVERY SINGLE DAY. There are hundreds more cities with more than 1-2 million people.
Functional diaspora. This argument is pretty moot or even leans towards the Chinese I think. So what you have Indian individuals "integrating in companies". They are individuals, and it means they can produce workers that integrate in other societies, as individuals. The Chinese also have diaspora. It is called China Town. In almost every city in the world has one. They are organized, band together, get real estate in close proximity, create small businesses and make their way and excel in almost every foreign country in the world. Do you see any "Indian Town's" in any city in the world?
My money is on China for sure.
I would rather have a farmed organ made and grown from my own cells (assuming it is possible and proven method of course) than a donor organ that might have some chance of either rejection or even the remote possibility of adding or changing my personality / persona.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/k51335l4k4676577/ "We conducted open-ended interviews with volunteer transplant recipients, recipient families or friends, and donor families or friends, in hospitals in various parts of the country. Patients included ten recipients who had received heart or heart–lung transplants. Main outcome measures were transcripts of audiotaped interviews quoted verbatim. Two to 5 parallels per case were observed between changes following surgery and the histories of the donors. Parallels included changes in food, music, art, sexual, recreational, and career preferences, as well as specific instances of perceptions of names and sensory experiences related to the donors. The incidence of recipient awareness of personal changes in cardiac transplant patients is unknown. The effects of the immunosuppressant drugs, stress of the surgery, and statistical coincidence are insufficient to explain the findings. We suggest that cellular memory, possibly systemic memory, is a plausible explanation for these parallels."
facebook is unique as they are the biggest game in the world with people's real names and real social connections.
Thanks for taking a stand, but isn't it a given that apple owns and controls the app store. If one doesn't like the rules, don't buy apple and don't make apps for their store. Simple no?
if the new organ was "seeded" from your own dna / cells though, then there should be no need to get attached to the original organ as the new organ will be 100% yours too. (well in theory)
(found the video after reading this article. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1323758/Can-cuttin...)
Will be cool to live longer for most I assume but also I would guess that many would have an issue with messing with "mother nature"...