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Nooooo america needs the biggest best treat printers.
By the way, i work in AI and i can tell you that, under the current structure, we wont be the leader in AI anyway. These companies are managed about as well as your local Subway sandwich shop
literally no capitalist industry is going to outcompete China in anything anymore in because they literally can not afford to in the vagaries of the market as private monopolist entities beholden to the interests they are; Most major companies based in the US been inflating their own value for their shareholders and investors with things like stock buyback book padding for 2 decades (and tech companies are among the worst offenders
them and airline companies, but it's universal with capitalist corporations); which is all value not reinvested as productive or RND capital, meaning not tied to any metric of productivity or growth or improvement in anything, spelling nothingness in the long term for the capitalist, and in all terms for the (ever-growing and ever-poorer with no expansion of industry from reinvestment) working class. That these capitalists aren't reckoning with that, I take great glee in. Because it is their end.
It is, but unfortunately the current crop of elder investors have gotten more than enough to live their last 20 years lavishly in air conditioned compounds, while the rest of us burn and starve
Yes but the poor masses of people do not remain placidly outside of those air conditioned compounds for very long when they are truly burning and starving. It doesn't matter who or what is stationed with what lethal force to guard them against the writhing masses of angry and desperation-crazed humanity. This is what revolutions are made of.
No matter how likely lethal the jump from a burning building is, the flames lapping at the jumpers' backs is considered a much more guaranteed and painful fate. Only in this case, the circumstances become reversed; and the masses realize (and it is the job of the communists to show them) that the jump isn't any less lethal or painful
because what was perceived as an unstoppable force-of-nature-inferno dispassionately pushing them off the brink are actually a relative handful of... people. Soft people. Cowards and liars making conscious decisions for selfish reasons. The "fires" pushing them out the window have faces, and names, and bleed just the same as any commoner. This perspective shift, is class consciousness reaching its revolutionary apex.