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Not US-centric, top dog-centric. The US is just the current top dog. The US is a barrier to a number of key Chinese goals, like reunification with Taiwan. So of course most of what…

The precedent for this is terrible. MAGA is bad enough. Imagine if the current batch of US progressives, who have 0 idea how any of this works, wins the presidency and gets to deci…

Creator monetization, which is great. In general though I feel like the less new features it adds, the better.

The pyramids took 20k+ people to build, which inevitably requires division of labor/specialization. Some chunk of that population had to mine the copper, which was probably an abso…

Marx was half right about it. What he got wrong was that this alienation results from capitalism. It actually results from civilization. The people who built the pyramids across ev…

Every biological being works to survive. Being good at survival is what builds self esteem. The "problem" with many modern jobs is that they're divorced from the fundamental goal, …

This is a bit reductionist. AI is also: - Boosting existing small businesses and enabling the creation of new small businesses by making previously expensive resources like market …

Goats > glyphosate

1. We stopped allowing housing to be built, skyrocketing the cost of existing housing. 2. Our healthcare system remains a Frankenstein of a half-government sanctioned oligopoly, ha…

Not sarcastic. Anything that helps keep markets optimally competitive is good for capitalism.

A win for Adam Smith capitalism.

Power structures still exist for sure. But objectively, there are tens of thousands currently making a living from YouTube who would've never been able to become entertainers if Ho…

It's undeniable that technology over the past decades has increased democratization in something every step of the way. YouTube destroyed Hollywood's monopolization of entertainmen…

Ah ok sorry missed that you were talking globally instead of just US. In the US, our problems stem from a lack of "capitalism," or healthy markets, or whatever anyone wants to labe…

Respectfully disagree. Food, clothing, fuel, electricity are too expensive, but they are comparatively much less of an issue compared to rent and healthcare costs. Rent and healthc…

The cost of living crisis is almost singularly caused by poor governance, not feudal tech lords. NIMBYism prevents new houses from being built, driving up the cost of housing. Heal…

Note that this is CNBC and they're writing from a stock market line-go-up POV. For everyone else, this is good news. From the article: "Huang was validating what the rest of the ma…

Read the article, it actually raises some fascinating points that are agnostic to the possibility that he may be financially well off.