Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
- phuketrichard
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Re: Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
i think everyone is safe
Better chance of walking on water than Cambodia becoming a high tech country where most likely 30% of the population cant read or write their own language
Better chance of walking on water than Cambodia becoming a high tech country where most likely 30% of the population cant read or write their own language
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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Re: Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
For me the big new change happened in about the 90's,
when we started considering ourselves as primarily living in The Economy - not a Society.
These days it seems, the economy has primacy and the expectation is that everything will just fall into place under that.
But it doesn't.
Sure, you might want to work inside Coca Cola Corp (for example) for eight hours a day. Or to have shares in the biz to support your economic well being.
But you don't want to live your whole life inside Coca Cola Corp, or design your life on that model - just because it is super efficient and successful.
And you can be dammed sure your social, natural, emotional, intellectual, recreational, family, etc issues will certainly not be given primacy over the "efficiency" of the biz.
A bit like the modern world today.
But a bit too late to change all that now, the die is cast - except maybe for yourself and your family.
Move out of the Coca Cola factory and smell the roses a bit more. Or out of the big city rat race.
But it's hard to escape the smart phone life these days - you gotta be really dedicated to the sweet scents of life to do that.
(And really fear the factors that Freightdog outlines above ^^^)
when we started considering ourselves as primarily living in The Economy - not a Society.
These days it seems, the economy has primacy and the expectation is that everything will just fall into place under that.
But it doesn't.
Sure, you might want to work inside Coca Cola Corp (for example) for eight hours a day. Or to have shares in the biz to support your economic well being.
But you don't want to live your whole life inside Coca Cola Corp, or design your life on that model - just because it is super efficient and successful.
And you can be dammed sure your social, natural, emotional, intellectual, recreational, family, etc issues will certainly not be given primacy over the "efficiency" of the biz.
A bit like the modern world today.
But a bit too late to change all that now, the die is cast - except maybe for yourself and your family.
Move out of the Coca Cola factory and smell the roses a bit more. Or out of the big city rat race.
But it's hard to escape the smart phone life these days - you gotta be really dedicated to the sweet scents of life to do that.
(And really fear the factors that Freightdog outlines above ^^^)
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Re: Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
exactlySternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 1:40 pm we started considering ourselves as primarily living in The Economy - not a Society.
it's the stupid economy
became 'it's the economy, stupid'
.
monstra mihi bona!
Re: Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
Without reliable electricity there will only be no-tech. A vision of a city with electrical or hybrid cars will be a fantasy until this basic is a reality. The cost of electricity is another hamstring.
Re: Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
Is illiteracy really that high? I heard the literacy rate was close to 85% for males and around 75% for females.phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 1:21 pm i think everyone is safe
Better chance of walking on water than Cambodia becoming a high tech country where most likely 30% of the population cant read or write their own language
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Re: Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
Those figures sound familiar, but as the school attendance rates. (from vague memory)fazur wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 2:29 pmIs illiteracy really that high? I heard the literacy rate was close to 85% for males and around 75% for females.phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 1:21 pm i think everyone is safe
Better chance of walking on water than Cambodia becoming a high tech country where most likely 30% of the population cant read or write their own language
But maybe they are counted as the same thing. ??
My wife had most of her schooling under the Khmer rouge, and then a couple of years after that - in the countryside with no trained teachers. She still has a pretty high state of literacy, and a working two extra languages. Taken to tech much better than me.
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Re: Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
For adults (above 15 years old) the rate is around 80%. Richard's figure is about 20 years out of date.fazur wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 2:29 pmIs illiteracy really that high? I heard the literacy rate was close to 85% for males and around 75% for females.phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 1:21 pm i think everyone is safe
Better chance of walking on water than Cambodia becoming a high tech country where most likely 30% of the population cant read or write their own language
https://knoema.com/atlas/Cambodia/topic ... eracy-rate
Silence, exile, and cunning.
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Re: Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
ok my badJohn Bingham wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:00 pmFor adults (above 15 years old) the rate is around 80%. Richard's figure is about 20 years out of date.fazur wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 2:29 pmIs illiteracy really that high? I heard the literacy rate was close to 85% for males and around 75% for females.phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 1:21 pm i think everyone is safe
Better chance of walking on water than Cambodia becoming a high tech country where most likely 30% of the population cant read or write their own language
https://knoema.com/atlas/Cambodia/topic ... eracy-rate
20 % for males
but for females > 30%
and for over 65 50%
yet how many have more than a basic education above primary school?
How many are living at a poverty level?
Not really conducive to a High tech society
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
Re: Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
I really wonder what made @phuketrichard, who loves Thailand, so much so hateful of Cambodia.
Sorry PR, actually your anti-Cambodia posts do keep a level of awareness going for those at the other end of the spectrum who are perhaps dangerously in love with Cambodia to the point of blindness; keep 'em coming!
Sorry PR, actually your anti-Cambodia posts do keep a level of awareness going for those at the other end of the spectrum who are perhaps dangerously in love with Cambodia to the point of blindness; keep 'em coming!
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
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Re: Cambodia's appeal: do you hope it goes hi-tech or stays simple?
There wasn't a great education system during the wars. Many elderly Americans are barely literate too.
Silence, exile, and cunning.
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