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[tamsen_ikard]

Breakneck has been pretty thumped on for all of those reasons, and in particular the silly engineer-lawyer opposition. The US has always been 'lawerly' but still managed to become a dominant industrial giant in the 50s and 60s in much the way China has now, so its decline is obviously more complicated.

I think Dan Wang discusses this. He says US was always ruled by lawyers but in the past there was a culture of respect of engineers and engineering work. There was a can do spirit. Perhaps they lost it because they got richer and dominant and thus no longer feel the need to do the hard work.

China is obviously much more poorer and thus there is a strong desire to move up in both wealth and technology. There is also scarcity of infrastracture that only started to improve recently.

Maybe if China gets extremely wealthy and dominant in geopolitical power, it too will get relaxed, easy going and lose its engineering dominant culture.

 

[supersnoop]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1966543135875690967

If traditional MIC contractor touches such a project, it will scope creep the F out of it. It goes from a cheap bomb with sheet metal wings bolted on powered by a scooter engine to a carbon fiber dual seeker microturbine thing that is half as capable as a tomahawk, but presented with the saving grace as being 25% cheaper.

if you get one of the tech bros, they promise they can make it cheaper using 3D printing and AI (somehow), but then you can see for the videos of their factories that they have zero automation and a very difficult path to scale production. “So how much would this industrial scale 3D printer cost, 1 million each? I thought it would be cheaper!”

 

[antiterror13]

I think Dan Wang discusses this. He says US was always ruled by lawyers but in the past there was a culture of respect of engineers and engineering work. There was a can do spirit. Perhaps they lost it because they got richer and dominant and thus no longer feel the need to do the hard work.

China is obviously much more poorer and thus there is a strong desire to move up in both wealth and technology. There is also scarcity of infrastracture that only started to improve recently.

Maybe if China gets extremely wealthy and dominant in geopolitical power, it too will get relaxed, easy going and lose its engineering dominant culture.

Yeahhh, every great powers in the past experienced that cycle, up and down, Chinese dynasties are a very good example.

US used to be very dominant in STEM, but see now, the majority of the brightest young generation would choose lawyers and MBA or investment bakers, etc