freediver wrote on Aug 7^th, 2021 at 8:26pm:


The subject of food appears to disagree with Rhino and anger him in the Chinese context where Australian agricultural labors are minuscule on a Chinese per capita basis.

Rhino can't digest and stomach food facts which disagree with him.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 7^th, 2021 at 9:03pm:


He is just getting frustrated at how slow you are. There are 1.4 billion Chinese and 25 million of us. Everything we do will be on a smaller scale. That doesn't really change anything.

What exactly is your point?

Meanwhile China has a mean wealth per adult of $68,000.

Australia - $488,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult#By_country

Just another useless fact.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 7^th, 2021 at 9:24pm:


You have never shown difficulty before.

So China per capita has about 13% of Australia. What did you want to find?

Given that high levels of growth are unsustainable in the long term, how can a  ~15% growth rate in mining over the period 2004-2021 be sustained?

I accept that some of this is due to high prices rather than high volumes, especially post 2013-2017 when there was a pause in the unrelenting rise.

But it still leaves the economic consequences of Australia's laissez-faire political and resource strategy. When the minerals run out, what is Australia going to do with a barren manufacturing industry which will be even smaller than it is now. Such a policy unbalances the Australian economy and leaves it ill-prepared for the day the resources run out.

Of course, it is possible that China is stripping Australia's mineral resources as a long-term strategy leaving it's own resources for later use.

Could China be deliberately steering Australia into a state of an asymmetric unbalanced economy devoid of manufacturing that may not be recoverable for decades? Of course, such a strategy would not be possible without the willful or ignorant complicity of Australian politicians.

Australian metal ore and mineral quarterly exports ($A millions) since 1969.

freediver wrote on Aug 8^th, 2021 at 12:44pm:


When their wages are denominated in bags of coal which the world didn't want in a barren landscape devoid of manufacturing where even the immigrant flood has dried up? Pray tell?

You are looking for answers in an Australian strategic field where questions label an inquiring person as an enemy of the state.

There will never be enough answers in Australia for the questions.

freediver wrote on Aug 8^th, 2021 at 1:18pm:


In your dreams. Thanks for sharing your aspirations.