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You mean some sort of great leap forward produces negative results for your citizens until it's completed? I swear I heard a story similar to that in reality.
The thing is relative to most developing nations China has had very slow economic growth. Yes, with a massive population, but China ranks 110 by purchasing power per person. It's economy is terrible, the only thing it has going for it is scale. And it's not like it has a massive population density either ranking at #80 world wide.
Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It Would Be
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Nobody knows minecraft intuitively. There are many children's games that you can figure out easily, but minecraft requires "a lot" lonely experimentation or reading or someone shows it to you.
That is at least part of the fun. I bought it when it (Minecraft) when it first came out. It was FPS Lego as far as I was concerned. At the time, and still, more or less, it was a game with none of the Psy Ops modern game makers employ to get people hooked. It was just intrinsically rewarding to make stuff. My son learned to use a mouse on Minecraft (he is 11 now). Now my kids and I have a long running world where we…
>My son learned to use a mouse on Minecraft
Funny how that works out -- I learned to touch-type because of Runescape.
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The thing is relative to most developing nations China has had very slow economic growth. Yes, with a massive population, but China ranks 110 by purchasing power per person. It's economy is terrible, the only thing it has going for it is scale. And it's not like it has a massive population density either ranking at #80 world wide.
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USA in 1980 was already a developed nation with a high relative standard of living. It could only grow GDP by inventing new technology and process not simply import proven tech.
China's continued failures are massive and ongoing. Some numbers look ok relative to their past failures but that's about it.
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I guess I think it's a bit of a tragedy that the most successful game since Doom was a copycat. It's also a shame that really creative game-makers, like ToadyOne or Zach, tend to not do that well - while Notch, who basically copied an entire game, presumably having even read the source code, is now made out of money. I've no idea about the exact mechanics of the copying - whether he just copied the idea, or copied th…
> I guess I think it's a bit of a tragedy that the most successful game since Doom was a copycat. Infiniminer is a class-based team FPS in a closed arena. The only thing Minecraft shares with it is the block mechanic. There's a mental quirk that seems to happen with game mechanics. Do something first, you're a genius; do it for the 100th time, you're iterating on classic gameplay; but do it for the second time, and y…
> Notch, meanwhile, appears to be miserable, bitter, and directionless.
I don't think that's because of either the money or Notch as a persson. It's because of the incredibly toxic community that came up around such a light hearted and simple game.
There's a shitload of backlash whenever he makes anything that's not Minecraft. See his space game with a programmable 6502 or his game jam games or...
Put Toady or Zachtronics under the same microscope and they'll shut down too. Human beings just aren't made for that.
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> I guess I think it's a bit of a tragedy that the most successful game since Doom was a copycat. Infiniminer is a class-based team FPS in a closed arena. The only thing Minecraft shares with it is the block mechanic. There's a mental quirk that seems to happen with game mechanics. Do something first, you're a genius; do it for the 100th time, you're iterating on classic gameplay; but do it for the second time, and y…
I think the thing is, you give Zach money, he uses it to make even better games. He's clearly had a good artist helping him out with some of his recent stuff. You give ToadyOne money, he uses it to say 'I'm gonna spend the next ten years developing the magic system'. That's because they're exceptionally creative people. Notch comes across as more of an ordinary guy - smart, sure, capable, also, but fundamentally ordi…
See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591278 for why I think that's maybe not true.
It's not due to the people involved or the money. I think it's the community around Minecraft.
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Keynesian Economics kept Australia out of recession in 08. They literally gave everyone 800 bucks. It was awesome, went out a bit more, bought lots of takeout and a few bits for around the house. And the economy kept moving. Now if only i could figure out a way to get more people to live in my SIM tower!
Why stop at 800? Give everyone a million bucks and you'd have a booming economy.
That's a bit of a lame argument, along the same lines as the 'trickle down' effect.
It probably depends on whether your economy is limited by consumer demand or by insufficient investments. For most developed nations it is clearly limited by consumer demand. Giving rich people more money aka 'trickle down' won't get the rich people to invest, because there is no demand (normal people already spend more than 100% of their income)
In this situation giving away money helicopter style makes sense.