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I think you miss a critical fact: They absolutely understand that. They also see money/power as a finite resource and absolutely do not want any new competitio

• georgemcbay 2y ago
  You're certainly right in some cases, though I do think its a mix of truths. Some of them do realize the actual situation and are ladder pulling, but mixed in with that there's also a pervasive offshoot of hyper narcissistic survivorship bias that in my experience a lot of modern tech entrepreneurs suffer from where they really are actually shockingly blind to the build-up of everything that they then built on. Like the Internet existing for them is taken as just a given like the earth and the seas being here, but "taxi cabs you hail through the internet"... that's the real invention!
• bagels 2y ago
  It's shortsighted because they are asking China to take over.