>Then Doug asked:
>
> > Why can't they get that technology at home?
>
>In many cases, it is because their land was stolen from them. Land reform in
>East Asia (including Japan) was very successful. Many of the people
>who worked
>the land were old and had no other employment prospects. So, in a
>crass economic
>sense, their labor was a "free good."
Yes, that and lack of capital and lack of access to technology, and the world's structural economic hierarchy. Besides the smell of indentured servitude, Nathan's scheme concedes that the hierarchy is just something to be adapted to.
Doug