Interesting take, I'll watch the video later. One important note is that there's a big difference between our culture and historical Chinese culture - and basi

Interesting take, I'll watch the video later. One important note is that there's a big difference between our culture and historical Chinese culture - and basically all powerful cultures that have existed before now. That is, the flexibility and rapid change of the system itself. It's not just upward mobility of people, it's upward mobility of companies and rapid systemic change, driven by technology and cultural shifts. Think about the difference between our society, and the 80s, the 50s, the 30s. There's never been a period like this before, so making comparisons to previous cultures is of limited utility and that needs to be noted when making the comparisons. We might think of Google as a never-ending behemoth with incredible power because in our recent lifetimes it's been that way. But the reality is that the company has only existed for ~26 years and if it truly slips up it could be a shadow of itself in another five years. Something else would jump into the power vacuum and our society would barely blink, except for a million articles with titles like "What happened to Google?" being written.