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by exe34 228 days ago
Do you know by any chance if the Chinese have 5 fingers on each hand? Is the number 5 forever tied to the Soviet Union and must never be used in economics again?
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Are you proposing that having five fingers completely explains why they chose five years for their plans? Despite five being a number so common, it has innumerable associations beyond our hands?

Ok. Well don't be coy, show your work.

Western companies also have five year plans. The British parliament runs on a five year cycle. Are you suggesting we are all communists?