"The cost of fragmented (sovereign) systems is ... sanctions evasion"
My man, that is the prize. Article is clearly written for US government elite to exhort them to bully other countries into staying in the system.
Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible.
Smartphones did nothing. The "people" who manipulated the reality within them did. It's no surprise that conservative billionaires went on a massive left-leaning media buying spree... Washington Post, Twitter, CNN, etc etc etc.
No, we the tech industry are key enablers. For the past two decades, we were obsessed with refining the methods of mass-surveillance and manipulation. We've brought about tremendous harm to society and it's time to start taking accountability.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible.
I think it almost doesn't matter what pockets 8-/ The routinely noted decline in US "educational achievement" correlates most closely, with the propagation in the school aged population, of "smartphones" and the algorithmic websites at which they're aimed. I've been saying lately: Apple caused the collapse of US educational outcomes.
Apple certainly played a major part.
The long distance culture war was enabled by long distance visibility.
The whole 'own the libs' thing wouldn't have existed in an era where everybody wasn't paticipating in a medium that made non-local people extremely visible to one another.
Re: Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible.
Smartphones did nothing. The "people" who manipulated the reality within them did. It's no surprise that conservative billionaires went on a massive left-leaning media buying spree... Washington Post, Twitter, CNN, etc etc etc.
>> Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible.
>>> Smartphones did nothing. The "people" who manipulated the reality within them did.
So those manipulations and their machinations weren't enabled by the existance of smarphones?
Re: Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy
#25Diverdification is the only stability. Humans need to get over hirearchical tendencies.
Re: Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy
#26The claims by VISA and Mastercard, that they are committed to nternational markets, adds up to a big 0. If the US government issues sanctions, they will comply. Countries outside the US are wise to pursue other infrastructure. The big surprise is that this problem has been ignored for so long. Of course, here in the US, we will not be alllowed a free instant payment system, because giving 3% of gross sales away to an…
For the last 20 or so years now, Patriotism has been hijacked to mean: "beneficial to an oligarch". It's been a long time since patriotism didnt mean either racist conservative, or capitalist bully.
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