Inaccurate Economics: Dogs as a proxy for a country's economic development
Standard methods of measuring a country's development aside, stray dogs kind of work*. China c. 1960 didn't have too many strays running about as people were too gosh darned hungry to be working animal rescues (Great Leap Forward--huge famine--blah blah). Thus, stray dogs are in people's tummies. On the flip side, once a country has reached a certain level of development, there are few strays to be seen as they become menaces of a poop-free society. Thus, stray dogs are in the dog pound.
My parabola's slope is too big. Oops.
* It doesn't really work as there are too many counter-examples hee.
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You haven't really lived through the full Chinese experience until you snatched a stray, gave him a name and then roasted his butt in a make shift BBQ made from a used oil barrel.
Hahahaha to the above comment. I was going to say something to the effect of, "or perhaps kids in China prefer big macs to fido macs compared to 1960!"
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