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[AssassinsMace]

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Watch this very informative video if you want an understanding how the US and the West are the P.T. Barnums of the world where they need to have suckers born every minute in order to survive. This video talks only about AI and technology. It actually goes beyond it. It's culturally Western where you can see this applied in every facet of how West sells themselves to their own citizens and to the world. This is a part of how the West thinks they need no one but the world needs them. That's the con they're telling the world in order to have the world hand them control and your money.

We've seen this before in the auto industry. Everyone wanted an American car because they were the first. They didn't need to think about what the consumer wanted. It was captured market for them. Detroit made cars with features that they wanted to make. Then the Japanese came along and built cars that consumers wanted and that's how they were successful. Facebook and Google are to technology what Detroit was to cars.

The licensing fee business model is the dream of American companies where they get consumers to have to pay a subscription fee so they so they don't have to do anything or to the least very little while their bank accounts are endlessly being deposited cash for the indefinite future. Why do you think the West is so worried about China developing technology. They won't be making the money from things like licensing fees.

Americans think they don't have to worry about Harmony O/S as a competitor because they believe only Chinese will be using it. Not when China will be selling the future electronics that will be cheaper and most likely better to the rest of the world that will need using their operating system. Americans think people will choose theirs. Do they think people care enough to choose? Most electronics people will be buying only care if it does what it's suppose to do. Do they think people expect their futuristic refrigerator to do their homework? The owners of the operating system will get their cut when it's priced in on the cost of the product. And then when home electronics more and more are linked together, the consumer will have to buy electronics that are compatible. They won't be buying Western because theirs will be more expensive with little new innovations. Western citizens have to worry because they will be paying more for getting less.

 

[_killuminati_]

i think i have corrected you before on this one. It has nothing to do with Germany.

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I suggest you read the actual Elhaik report instead of a commentary by "JewishNews", the difference between which is like night and day. And then read the reaction of the Ashkenazis, who refused to accept Elhaik's study because it shows a non-Semitic origin. And while you're at it, learn that Yiddish - the language of Ashkenaz - is a Germanic language.

 

[pmc]

I suggest you read the actual Elhaik report instead of a commentary by "JewishNews", the difference between which is like night and day. And then read the reaction of the Ashkenazis, who refused to accept Elhaik's study because it shows a non-Semitic origin. And while you're at it, learn that Yiddish - the language of Ashkenaz - is a Germanic language.

language development has nothing with ethnicity. This still referring to this area.

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Ashkenaz,” which denotes. “Scythians” in the Hebrew Bible, is already a tantalizing clue to the large Iranian. Ashkenazic Jews called themselves “Scythians” because this was a popular name in the. and “native” southern Caucasians alongside.

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[coolgod]

Joe Biden is far from perfect, but I think he has mostly had an okay Presidency.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1809463951949979690

The right wing in America is extremely fucked up, to the point that I believe they could destabilize the entire global economy if not lead to a global war.

Ukraine, Palestine would like a word with you.

 

[Index]

Yes, either one of them are insane warmongers bent on a policy of aggression wars.

China should deal with them in the only acceptable way. Removal of the military age population through grinding down their offensive capable forces. As was done to Ukraine.

As I've said for a long time, it's either us or them. And while Chinese government isn't perfect, we at least don't wage aggressive wars, we achieve economic growth for ourselves and our allies, and we're not led by a senile, genocidal fascist. China is not just the best choice for itself, it's the best choice for the whole world.

 

[Eventine]

Democrats vs. Republicans is just a performance, a facade. The US, like virtually every government out there, is made up of an oligarchic core of political and business elites organized into ever shifting factions, which do not reflect the binary split that they present to the dumb **** public who can only be trusted to ever think in binary terms.

The neo-conservatives, who comprise the most powerful faction in American politics today, cut across party lines. There's both Democrats and Republicans among them, and they have command of American policy regardless of which president is in power. The difference between Biden and Trump is that the former is totally and obviously a puppet of the "deep state"; while the latter, having come from an oligarchic family and been a high profile executive in his own right, is more likely to influence "deep state" policy through his own political power.

People here should know better than to fall for the "democracy" song and dance that serves as a front for the American oligarchy. If you want to understand American politics, pay attention to the factions.

 

[horse]

This guys always finds the most scenic spot to make rather complicated videos. The contrast is really nice.

 

[coolgod]

Yes, either one of them are insane warmongers bent on a policy of aggression wars.

China should deal with them in the only acceptable way. Removal of the military age population through grinding down their offensive capable forces. As was done to Ukraine.

As I've said for a long time, it's either us or them. And while Chinese government isn't perfect, we at least don't wage aggressive wars, we achieve economic growth for ourselves and our allies, and we're not led by a senile, genocidal fascist. China is not just the best choice for itself, it's the best choice for the whole world.

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US hegemony and its perils​

US hegemony must be overthrown, I don't think that will happen peacefully. Let's see if Xi is the leader that will get the job done.

 

[Minm]

There's a certain aspect of Western culture that encourages and obsesses over the seeking of novelty, which still persists to this day as the US continues to spend far more money on basic research, even though applied research would have served its industries more. I don't find this same urge in Eastern cultures, and it's possible it has to do with significant differences in the foundational structure of these societies, where Eastern societies just didn't have a class comparable to the European entrepreneur.

By which I mean, China obviously did have merchants; and it did have bankers. But if you look at their maturity vis-a-vis Europe's during the 16th and 17th centuries, they strike you as being rather rudimentary. Commercial banking, financial instruments, and capital markets were much better developed in the West than they were in China, and that's still the case today. Yet private entrepreneurs were critical to the success of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain - it was they who provided the impetus for inventors seeking upward mobility and who laid the foundations for such inventions via the patents system.

During the same period in China, the educated class competed to become imperial bureaucrats, poets, and artists; and invention was never given much encouragement except when the state found a particular need. Indeed, this still seems to be the case today as China continues to sponsor very targeted research serving strategic needs, rather than invest in an entrepreneurial sense. To this end, while the down side of excessive financialization is becoming obvious, I wonder if China might have too little financialization for the engine of innovation.

Between the 18th and 20th centuries, western cities recorded the fastest population growth due to the migration of the excessive rural population, who could no longer find enough rural jobs and needed to migrate to avoid starving. London, Paris, New York, Vienna, Milan, Berlin doubled and tripled in size in a short space of time, as did other secondary western cities.

This rapid and constant urban growth created a huge demand and available urban workforce that attracted investment to industries, which then grew like never before. Without demand there is no incentive to supply. Competition between companies to meet this growing demand has led to increased productivity and technological evolution.

On the other hand, Imperial China and Japan, although they also had large cities, appear to have stagnated like big villages rather than evolving into a full urban society until the 20th century, perhaps mainly due to a lack of true regional power competition, as others have noted. Now this is the past and China is the current world industrial powerhouse, after experiencing its rural exodus and encouraged by western competition. The competition woke up China.

You list many reasons for why China and all other empires fell behind the west. But colonialism really is the primary reason. Modern capitalism and incorporated companies were invented in the Netherlands with the Dutch East India company. Later, the British East India company started conquering countries in India and collecting tax and it's more than just a coincidence that the industrial revolution started just after the battle of Plassey. This focused the wealth of around 30 million Bengalis on 10 million British (in around 1800) and importantly gave the British a captured market that could only import British products but wasn't allowed to compete with Britain.

Capitalism and the industrial revolution are both children of colonialism. The Spanish only gained silver and gold from America, but the surviving population under Spanish rule was fairly small compared to the population of Spain in Europe and they weren't forced to take Spanish products. Britain gained human resources in India. For most of the 19th century, India's total GDP was multiples of Britain.

Western countries like to pretend that it's something special about their system, the rule of law, "freedom", entrepreneurialism or inventors etc. But it's really based on oppression and the Dutch and British East India companies.

Other empires just never managed to exploit a much larger economy than their own and grow through exports. China or the other empires in Asia would have needed to take the resources from all the provinces and focus them only on the development of one province to achieve something similar.

Luckily, you can use capitalism without a colonial empire to fuel it. That's how the US, Germany and later China rose

 

[Randomuser]

Democrats vs. Republicans is just a performance, a facade. The US, like virtually every government out there, is made up of an oligarchic core of political and business elites organized into ever shifting factions, which do not reflect the binary split that they present to the dumb **** public who can only be trusted to ever think in binary terms.

The neo-conservatives, who comprise the most powerful faction in American politics today, cut across party lines. There's both Democrats and Republicans among them, and they have command of American policy regardless of which president is in power. The difference between Biden and Trump is that the former is totally and obviously a puppet of the "deep state"; while the latter, having come from an oligarchic family and been a high profile executive in his own right, is more likely to influence "deep state" policy through his own political power.

People here should know better than to fall for the "democracy" song and dance that serves as a front for the American oligarchy. If you want to understand American politics, pay attention to the factions.

"The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."

You list many reasons for why China and all other empires fell behind the west. But colonialism really is the primary reason. Modern capitalism and incorporated companies were invented in the Netherlands with the Dutch East India company. Later, the British East India company started conquering countries in India and collecting tax and it's more than just a coincidence that the industrial revolution started just after the battle of Plassey. This focused the wealth of around 30 million Bengalis on 10 million British (in around 1800) and importantly gave the British a captured market that could only import British products but wasn't allowed to compete with Britain.

Capitalism and the industrial revolution are both children of colonialism. The Spanish only gained silver and gold from America, but the surviving population under Spanish rule was fairly small compared to the population of Spain in Europe and they weren't forced to take Spanish products. Britain gained human resources in India. For most of the 19th century, India's total GDP was multiples of Britain.

Western countries like to pretend that it's something special about their system, the rule of law, "freedom", entrepreneurialism or inventors etc. But it's really based on oppression and the Dutch and British East India companies.

Other empires just never managed to exploit a much larger economy than their own and grow through exports. China or the other empires in Asia would have needed to take the resources from all the provinces and focus them only on the development of one province to achieve something similar.

Luckily, you can use capitalism without a colonial empire to fuel it. That's how the US, Germany and later China rose

I mean can people not obviously see that Europre really started taking off only after the 1400s where the age of exploration took place? What a coincidence huh?

At the same time we see the decline of European influence after it has no more colonies. Again what a coincidence huh?