> it would be smarter usa to accept that china will overgrow them and not fight this invetiable economic fact i disagree. it would be smarter to triple down on production china is decades behind us. cutting-edge technology is still in the western domain and still our exclusive provenance. crucially, high-tech production of goods and services isn't anything which relies upon a larger population or a larger manufacturing base. it is not unthinkable that we remain ahead of china economically in perpetuity of china is unable to maintain its speedrun through industrialization... as evidence is starting to suggest.  the major problem with becoming entirely post-industrial is what to do with the people who don't have any real role in society, given more and more will become, uh... "innately unsuited" for more specialized work. i think part of why this puerile re-industrialization gets pushed so hard is because the rich simply don't want to pay ubi. in terms of social development, ubi is greatly superior; but in terms of the pocketbooks of the wealthy, it's strictly inferior. because the wealthy control politics, well... you do the math.
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