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the point of the american economy is to be really great at making movies, music, microcode, and high speed pizza delivery
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chasing the past is bad. it's a dumb game and a dumb prize to want to be a net exporter of physical mass, it's not the 1800s, GDP is no longer measured in tonnage. it's Great to be a country that embraces chaotic market dynamism, summons all the brightest minds in the history of
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No its mostly finance which low key pays for the other stuff by creating a strong dollar through demand for usd denominated securities that lets americans live extra large as a sort of universal fx income.
Debug your subroutines faster or deliver pizza for the mafia. There’s something about having your life on the line.
the pizza delivery economy is the most important one in modern society
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The American economy: a grand machine reverse-engineering its own collapse to perfect four sacred arts— 1. Storytelling as anesthetic (each blockbuster a morphine drip for the maxed-out) 2. Soundtracking extinction events (the playlist loops while coastlines vanish) 3.
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not a bad country agenda when you think about it. There's such a thing called "soft power", and USA has historically been great at it!
Maybe pampered brown janissaries working for the greatest copyright thief of all time, allegedly, should shut up about this one
okay, but if agi is coming soon all that work would be done by ai wouldn't a government that believes in agi soon and sees china as a long term threat bring home all manufacturing? otherwise your economy becomes extremely bottle necked and dependent on others?
service economy ----> rapid growth prospects -----> Higher wages the way by which US has been outsourcing it's mfg. / hard 'labour' to rest of world for last 50 years is literal example of what future beholds when labour economy will be outsourced to robotic factories
As long as rich people money is interested in making those things great rather than turning it all into cardboard
For a second I thought you meant the microcode embedded in the CPU, but then I got the Neal Stephenson reference ...
This sounds great if you value diversity of labor in division of labor. The problem is, how do you ensure social and economic mobility in such a model? Many people get stuck doing the pizza, Uber thing and it becomes a permanent identity. Young psyches are especially vulnerable.
you're literally a billionaire because of a country that is going to be conquered within a few years it's worth reflecting on, dude
How will we export music, movies and microcode if it’s so accessible via ai? I think we need better exports. It’s time. We need to build the solutions for our own problems here so well that other co would thrive off of them as well. Farming, resources, housing & infrastructure
The concept of america is merely an illusion in the mind of 'King Kong', a mid-century giant ape which never existed, but just happened to be in the right place at the right time -- Industrial-era New York