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There’s something darkly funny about the US and Russia both facing economic obliteration in the same year caused by their own hubris.
by inverted_flag 1y ago
There’s something darkly funny about the US and Russia both facing economic obliteration in the same year caused by their own hubris.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoOld men chasing status and power can’t help themselves as they run out of relevance runway, dragging the rest of us along for the unpleasant ride.
- inverted_flag 1y agoBoth share the same core goal too: to drag their countries back to the mid 20th century. Putin wants the Soviet Union back, and Trump wants 50’s America back. China is immune to this because that time period was uniquely terrible for them.
- BMc2020 1y agoI like that term, 'relevance runway'.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoIt is a core component of my mental model. Everything has a time horizon: people, institutions, investments, etc. To understand influence potential/runway, time horizon * influence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_horizon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_horizon