Its incredible to me how pessimistic people are about their own world. > Capital investment is best spent on a sound currency, strong local manufacturing base

Its incredible to me how pessimistic people are about their own world. > Capital investment is best spent on a sound currency, strong local manufacturing base and a strong legal system to protect both from corruption as well as the Human rights of its populations; unfortunately no nation Western or Eastern seems intent on doing that... like ever in History. This is pretty much what every single western country has done. Can you argue that they didn't do it perfectly. Sure, but what the are you comparing it to? Some perfect utopia. Everything falls short to that. Your assertions fly directly in the face of the existence of you having a computer that you are typing that on. The British government has existed for arguable 100s of years, would you call that a short time? Since about 1700-1800 they had about 2% growth per year. > I'm sure many of you are seeing visions of Westworld or Psycho pass type dystopias but I'm convinced there is a middle ground between the two we just haven't been able to arrive to due to constant conflicts, and endless wars that drain the World of Human capital and technological resources best used for this end. Wars now are in fact less common then at any time in history, and that includes the casualties of war. By any actual look at the numbers war was never less frequent and human prosperity never higher. I really don't understand the pessimism that western elites seem to believe in so strongly (I'm assuming you are part of a western elite). > But I also find it funny how some of Elon Musk's, an openly declared Utopian Anarchist, Can you give me a source on that? Asked about his political views he said he was socially liberal, economically conservative. He seems to me to be more of a libertarian type, certainty not a left anarchist or even an anarcho-capitalist. > biggest proponents haven't realized the fact that all of his and Kimbal's businesses are aimed to help establish a colony on Mars where he has gone on record to say one of the biggest reasons to do so it try and re-do all of this non-sense on Earth with a blank slate canvas approach, and this is the extreme one has to go to do it. He has said about 100x more often that in general having a backup in case of extinction level that is gone happen is 100% on a long enough time scale. He has also said that separation often lends itself to experimentation with social structure, but he made those comments based on historical knowledge. We know that is happens like that, I don't think he said that in a Utopian spirit. > People keep accepting that War with China is inevitable I certainty don't.