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		WalterBright 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How did the Maya survive? > Even when a country is dealt a really crappy hand at the outset, it's not irreversible Hong Kong was poor until 1965, when they got tired of poverty and switched to free markets. The result was amazing prosperity.

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unmole 12 days ago [–]

> switched to free markets

Hong Kong has been all about free markets since the end of the Opium Wars.

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