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Even then, our dominance in intellectual property is not assured. TikTok has taken the world by storm and I would have never imagined a Chinese company would ma

Even then, our dominance in intellectual property is not assured. TikTok has taken the world by storm and I would have never imagined a Chinese company would make a social media app more successful and compelling than what any Bay Area company could produce. We're also seeing Hollywood movies become less successful overseas as other nations step up their own media production. Not only do I see our competitive advantage in Intellectual Property declining, I also don't know what comes next after Intellectual Property.

thsijustin 4y ago
formerkrogemp 4y ago
> I would have never imagined a Chinese company would make a social media app more successful and compelling than what any Bay Area company could produce. Arrogance and hubris. > Not only do I see our competitive advantage in Intellectual Property declining, I also don't know what comes next after Intellectual Property. We maintain our interests as we always have: destabilizing other countries and war. However, I think pax Americana ends with climate change.
- Aerroon 4y ago
  >However, I think pax Americana ends with climate change. Perhaps, but it might also give opportunities to further it: "No, Brazil, you can't cut down your forest in your country for farmland. We have to fight climate change! You need to stop right now or else." If you read about Brazil cutting down parts of the Amazon in places like reddit you'll find that a lot of people in the developed world hold this kind of an opinion. They might even be willing to back some form of sanctions or punishment for Brazil for doing it. This gives a convenient excuse for developed nations to meddle with other countries again.
bushbaba 4y ago
Housing has become too expensive. The US would see huge GDP growth if it reduced the percentage of wages going to housing and rent-seeking corporations.
- zozbot234 4y ago
  Housing is not expensive in much of the country. You're looking at a handful of heavily urbanized areas and projecting those dynamics to the rest of the U.S.
  - bluedino 4y ago
    It is now. Those $125,000 1400sq ft houses in the flyover states doubled in price over the last two years.
  - xxpor 4y ago
    Housing in cheap in the unproductive areas of the US.
  - formerkrogemp 4y ago
    > Housing is not expensive in much of the country. Citation needed. Take me to this mystical place. I have lived in a couple of flyover states. Rent and housing aren't getting cheaper anywhere, compadre.
  - antifa 4y ago
    > You're looking at a handful of heavily urbanized areas and projecting those dynamics to the rest of the U.S. There's a good reason for this, the vast majority of people aren't shopping for homes in places without jobs.
  - dwater 4y ago
    Housing values are strongly correlated with the local economy. By and large, the areas with cheap housing have weak job markets and low wages, and vice versa. Remote work may change this some, and it's great if you have the privilege of that option, but it is certainly not the norm across all workers.
zozbot234 4y ago
- dc-programmer 4y ago
  Exactly. I refuse to watch the imperialist propaganda vehicle known as the Marvel cinematic Universe. Only partially kidding. There is a comical parallel though with China’s Wolf Warriors movies. Hugely popular, and maybe even good cinema, but also propaganda
- dragontamer 4y ago
  You mean like the good ol' days when we had non-political movies like "Dr. Strangelove" ??
  - zozbot234 4y ago
    Dr. Strangelove was openly political. It was made as a dark comedy precisely as a way of making its message transparent and enjoyable to the audience. Modern films are quite different.
    - foldr 4y ago
      You originally said that Hollywood movies had become "heavily politicized". I think what you really mean to say is that they've started promoting certain ideas that you don't like. Or are you going to tell me that Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind didn't engage with any controversial political ideas?
      - inglor_cz 4y ago
        Not the OP, but a person from behind the former Iron Curtain who watched a lot of old commie stuff, the good and the mediocre and the really boring ones. There is politicized and politicized. Art often has a political message, but there is a certain threshold where the message starts squeezing everything else out of the picture and the characters become stuffy - a weird kind of "ideal exemplars" of a certain desired stereotype instead of believable humans. If the main hero can't be characterized more personally than "Soviet and a hero" or "trans and brave", the threshold is crossed. People like to watch movies about other people, not stereotypized puppets.
recursivedoubts 4y ago
i would guess our comparative advantage in pie in the sky thinking about markets
conductr 4y ago
At some point there is no next, globalism seeks equilibrium

thsijustin 4y ago

formerkrogemp 4y ago

> I would have never imagined a Chinese company would make a social media app more successful and compelling than what any Bay Area company could produce. Arrogance and hubris. > Not only do I see our competitive advantage in Intellectual Property declining, I also don't know what comes next after Intellectual Property. We maintain our interests as we always have: destabilizing other countries and war. However, I think pax Americana ends with climate change.

Aerroon 4y ago
>However, I think pax Americana ends with climate change. Perhaps, but it might also give opportunities to further it: "No, Brazil, you can't cut down your forest in your country for farmland. We have to fight climate change! You need to stop right now or else." If you read about Brazil cutting down parts of the Amazon in places like reddit you'll find that a lot of people in the developed world hold this kind of an opinion. They might even be willing to back some form of sanctions or punishment for Brazil for doing it. This gives a convenient excuse for developed nations to meddle with other countries again.

bushbaba 4y ago

Housing has become too expensive. The US would see huge GDP growth if it reduced the percentage of wages going to housing and rent-seeking corporations.

zozbot234 4y ago
Housing is not expensive in much of the country. You're looking at a handful of heavily urbanized areas and projecting those dynamics to the rest of the U.S.
- bluedino 4y ago
  It is now. Those $125,000 1400sq ft houses in the flyover states doubled in price over the last two years.
- xxpor 4y ago
  Housing in cheap in the unproductive areas of the US.
- formerkrogemp 4y ago
  > Housing is not expensive in much of the country. Citation needed. Take me to this mystical place. I have lived in a couple of flyover states. Rent and housing aren't getting cheaper anywhere, compadre.
- antifa 4y ago
  > You're looking at a handful of heavily urbanized areas and projecting those dynamics to the rest of the U.S. There's a good reason for this, the vast majority of people aren't shopping for homes in places without jobs.
- dwater 4y ago
  Housing values are strongly correlated with the local economy. By and large, the areas with cheap housing have weak job markets and low wages, and vice versa. Remote work may change this some, and it's great if you have the privilege of that option, but it is certainly not the norm across all workers.

zozbot234 4y ago

dc-programmer 4y ago
Exactly. I refuse to watch the imperialist propaganda vehicle known as the Marvel cinematic Universe. Only partially kidding. There is a comical parallel though with China’s Wolf Warriors movies. Hugely popular, and maybe even good cinema, but also propaganda
dragontamer 4y ago
You mean like the good ol' days when we had non-political movies like "Dr. Strangelove" ??
- zozbot234 4y ago
  Dr. Strangelove was openly political. It was made as a dark comedy precisely as a way of making its message transparent and enjoyable to the audience. Modern films are quite different.
  - foldr 4y ago
    You originally said that Hollywood movies had become "heavily politicized". I think what you really mean to say is that they've started promoting certain ideas that you don't like. Or are you going to tell me that Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind didn't engage with any controversial political ideas?
    - inglor_cz 4y ago
      Not the OP, but a person from behind the former Iron Curtain who watched a lot of old commie stuff, the good and the mediocre and the really boring ones. There is politicized and politicized. Art often has a political message, but there is a certain threshold where the message starts squeezing everything else out of the picture and the characters become stuffy - a weird kind of "ideal exemplars" of a certain desired stereotype instead of believable humans. If the main hero can't be characterized more personally than "Soviet and a hero" or "trans and brave", the threshold is crossed. People like to watch movies about other people, not stereotypized puppets.

recursivedoubts 4y ago

i would guess our comparative advantage in pie in the sky thinking about markets

conductr 4y ago

At some point there is no next, globalism seeks equilibrium