DeLong's Japanese 'Utopia'

[Brad De Long]

>Brad,
>Let me be charitable here. As someone who lived in Japan for most of 
>my youth - 1952 to 1969, with a few years in between in South Korea 
>- I can assure you I have a pretty good sense of the relative merits 
>of Japan in comparison to other Asian countries. But I find it 
>pretty hard to argue that Japanese people are better off than, say, 
>their counterparts in Thailand, Indonesia or Korea...

You may be the only person in the world who finds it hard to argue 
that people in Japan are better off than their counterparts in 
Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea...

Just as you may be the only person in the world who finds it hard to 
argue that people are better off in South Korea than in North Korea, 
in Thailand than in China, in Indonesia than in Vietnam.

Brad DeLong