@adarshisit@davidbessis FWIW, Calculus wasn't even taught in high schools across America until Sputnik freaked out the American populace.
That we teach Calculus to a large swath of the public probably would've seemed absurd to an HBD type in 1950.
@StefanFSchubert@briantreacy6 We wasted a lot of money on computers in the 70s and 80s to play Zork, but it ended up working out in the long run.
Solow’s productivity paradox was real, but now we have all the tech companies. Other bubbles didn’t pan out like railroads.
@MikeFritzell You’re not doing a seasonal adjustment. It could be the case, but the #1 use case, especially chat gpt is still homework cheating; esp college. That’s why it has that general shape.
@VincentGeloso It’s hard for me to find GDP estimates for the earlier years; I thought I saw a chinese source years ago.
But, my intuition from general stats is their hockey stick type growth is very dependent on 1st the chinese civil war, but also vietnam war.
@AbdulPadela@gonglei89 Rent/income levels in tier-1 chinese cities are some of the highest in the world: Shanghai, Beijing
Even though they built a lot
@JaneParkway@StefanFSchubert Agree. The problem with this style of arg; it’s all assertions and non empirical. They do the same with like China is more racist than US.