Message from @ManAnimal
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tariffs are a start but retooling takes time
manufacturing needs to come home and stay home
Sadly Chinese money acts like a mind controlling cancer to our politicians and corporations for generations
suppliers and consumers of the same class all under the same roof
not really "generations" tbf
but yes, a while now
if you have consumers and supplies under the same roof then the things like automation replacing people without creating better jobs that people can work just doesn't happen
Send china back to 1989
China basically copied every tactic out there along with stealing IPs to get what they are today, a rip-off variant of more advanced societies that actually earned their way.
someone has to do the work; and if you can't expand the labor pool then you find a way to use what you have to get the job done
Maybe the next Tiananmen style crackdown in Hong Kong be the flashpoint we need.
it's the same economic phenomna that happend throughout history as the title of 'world hegemon' was passed from Netherlands, to Spain, to UK, to US
each time, the country rises on the backs of it's production capacity and over time, outsources that production capacity become the financial center of the word, going off there historically good credit
They are a knock-off brand of the west, aside from their own version of communism I suppose...
They're doing a damn good job of developing a bubble housing market with their "ghost cities"
won't last
it'll crash hard
as long as people beleive they can cover their debts, the credit remains good. Eventually, a war or crisis illustrates that they can't cover their debts and all the influnec an credit moves to the place with the production base
this has happend BEFORE
and it's happening NOW
Ghost cities; can you think of a better way to move millions of peasants into the 21st century during a crisis other than telling them to go learn from that abandoned city? Building said cities was no different than the projects instituted by FDR during the depression
Run at a loss in favor of developing a production base and trained labor force
How much do I have to pay someone to abduct my waifu, Tulsi <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>
Standing up to Clinton, we need to get her out before she commits suicide by hanging and 2 bullets to back of head
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Thing about those "cities" and their existence is due to construction companies taking advantage of shady government loans. the materials used only see them stand for 5 years before the shit quality starts to seem them falling apart
The tragic irony is that much of what China is doing is no different than the methods Donald Trump employed to make millions
Invest every penny in assets that retain value but keep very little liquitdity so you look just as poor as everyone else.
10/10 would not want to be in a Chinese earthquake
well, most cities won't survive very long if just left vacant; shit needs maintence
@ManAnimal answer my inquiry plz
inquiry? i must have missed it, sorry; let me look for it
90,000 deaths, 380,000 injured, 19,000 missing.
check ur @ s
May as well have been a thermal nuclear warhead.
High quality paper living in crammed spaces and not a god damn contractor following regulations.
You talkin about PACER, coolithic?
@Coolitic, PACER is like so many other technically feasible projects that we all thought would happen by the 21st century. Maglevs spanning the country, Hyperloop, flying cars, hydrogen infrastructure, space colonies, Thorium, self-driving cars etc. All of these are technically feasible. However, futurists are too often poor engineers and they forget that economics, not technical details make a program feasible. A company must be able to make a profit in order to pursue such projects and the largest portion of that profit equation has to do with the costs of liability and managing risk. Unless a company can find a way to externalize that risk, the program usually is never fielded.
but a big-ass cave serves as a good means of confinement
MA is doing some big brain shrooms again.