Reply #23: I answered the original point

[Maple]

and all the other points that got dragged into it.

You are still thinking in terms of the industrial age...'factories are life'

Well they aren't. They are only one stage in a long process, and at the moment China is the world's factory. That means you will have to move on to something else. Each country slingshots the others ahead or behind as things change.

The western world isn't fully equal, but it's a lot more equal than it has been just in my own lifetime...which is a drop in the historical bucket.

Other countries are changing rapidly, and will reach that goal as well.

Most societies, over the next half century, will also come to have nuclear families, homes of their own, transportation, education, and a belief in peace and freedom worldwide.

Just in my lifetime China went from an Emperor and stagnant mediaeval society, to the depths of mass murder under Mao, to selling computers to the world, and having a presence in space. And I'm not even 60 yet.

Time is telescoping like never before...yet you choose now of all times to rain gloom and doom on everyone.

Life is better than it has ever been. You are in your own negative zone for some reason.