Jack Ma steps out from the shadows with morale-boosting post

Post by subpixel » Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 9:13 PM UTC

_xnmw wrote: post #123

roenxi wrote: post #2

Just going by appearances, the story at the time looked a lot like Jack Ma fleeing the country for a bit. One minute he was disturbing the tranquillity in China then the next he was picking up some Zen among the cherry blossoms. It is interesting to compare-and-contrast Jack Ma and Elon Musk who seems to me the nearest analogue in the US. How their host countries treat them says a lot about the real cultural differen…

I'm not sure it is safe to build wealth anywhere, anymore, although the US is the country I chose to register my company in, because it is probably the safest. Still, I have my reservations. Petty theft like shoplifting is being increasingly normalized and justified in the US (see train package theft), and enforcement of property law is slipping, see how home owners can lose their home to "squatting". This is a very…

Post by Log_out_ » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 3:23 PM UTC

lazide wrote: post #194

ChainOfFools wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Only if the person picked via nepotism isn’t competent. It'd be interesting to know how much this phenomenon would explain the stability of otherwise culturally ossified regimes that stood for four or five centuries before collapsing, where government was built almost entirely out of extreme nepotism in which the ruling potentate had 50 or 60 kids to choose from, and thus had a shot at picking the most capable from…

There is also the factor that the nepo kids are trained since birth for the role, often with the best education money can buy. Training makes up a lot for stupidity and other gaps. At some point, it doesn’t matter enough , but that can go quite awhile.