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> To be honest I'm not sure any country apart from China stands any chance of becoming technologically sovereign. IMHO, the US probably could manage it too: it
by tablespoon 4y ago
> To be honest I'm not sure any country apart from China stands any chance of becoming technologically sovereign.
IMHO, the US probably could manage it too: it has a big population and lots of natural resources. The reason it isn't is more of issue of ideology and will: it was far more technologically sovereign in the past than it is now, but chose to give that up so some investors could get more profits in the short-term. It's unlikely to change, since the ideologies that drove those choices are still strong.
- lazyeye 4y agoI wonder what percentage of the population it was that made the decision to "choose to give it up".
- quantified 4y agoA smaller percentage made the many impactful choices, a larger percentage went along with it. For example, some people have always been intently "buy American", most haven't been. Few if any "buy American" people were ever involved in or supportive of moving the jobs to China, India, Phillipines, or Mexico. And it'll be iffy as to whether they have 401(k) gains from the financiers' decisions to do the movement.
- azinman2 4y agoI don’t know what you call short term, because this has been decades in the making. I’d at least call it medium term. The flip side is now the US is more competitive globally as the products can be priced as such, in addition to consumer price decreases. You also have the issue that most Americans don’t want the ultra low paying jobs necessary to build all this stuff, nor want the environmental damage from the mining. So it’s not so simple as just some greedy evil villains we can point to.