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Comment by questhimay

12 days ago

Why would ou think it's "dumb", when we've already had TikTok ban, tariff on Chinese EV, and chip ban on China?

It's very clear that China is an enemy that has to be dealt with by US

I already said why it's dumb

> "the proposed legislation won't do anything meaningful toward those ends."

It's not practical, one should always assume or even pretend to be the cause of problems yourself.

Maybe it was not a good idea to kill RND in favor of greed?

Do you remember the parable of the ground breaking publication with its findings never finding a way into industry?

Musk often moaned about how hard it is to make things. It's our culture/society/economy a lot of the mechanisms are things we've made up sometimes going against reality. If we want to make something easier we would have to apply ourselves?

In 1950 the Chinese had 83% working in agriculture, the USA had 7%. (Today it is 22% and 1.6%)

You could argue they had access to abundant cheap labor but it is more practical to say we don't have access because everything is insanely expensive. Everything we do primarily benefits people who are useless to the process.

If you cant afford babies there is no need to have a family, no need to build houses for them. If one does accidentally a baby training and educating it should benefit everyone except the baby and the future?

We did all that and then boo hoo, China this China that?