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by corimaith 1y ago
Traditional Confucian Exams were more of elite dispute resolution mechanisms. The idea of practical education is largely introduced by the West.
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A military controlling the flow of goods into its own borders isn't going to "burn bad", it's called customs controls.
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How are you going to gain core IP research if you don't have experience or access to leading edge researchers to pass you knowledge in the first place? Talent is proportional to population, but that only matters if society and state ha
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>History has shown that withholding technology from China does not significantly stop them and they'll achieve it (or better) in a small number of years. I don't think you can really produce a definite counterfactual that they
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Most countries are surplus countries and to maintain that competiveness they do alot of things that ultimately weaken their consumption to go into investment instead. They also a buy alot of US treasuries, giving USA alot of credit. Because
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You're taking the most charitable view of the underlying worldview of the progressive left and the most infernal view of the right. That's not epistemologically fair. There is a alot of performative contradiction being performed h
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>Don't blame China for this, they provided what they were asked to provide, blame those who "failed to discipline them years ago" The fact that you are referencing "they" means you don't actually know how th
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Yeah, the US was wrong there and in Bretton Woods. But unless if this an exercise in nationalist polemics, that doesn't change the fact that China is the prime violator in such a system by virtue of their surplus, not the USA which run
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>The reasons for the decline are cyclical. What a nice exercise in public relations.
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>Adam Smith, and it's been a ruse since then too. Read him. You should read Keynes as the primary opposing side to US during Bretton Woods, with strong support from most bankers at the time. The WTO has no answer to structural imbal
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There are a million ways to cheat trade, the WTO was created to handle small disputes, not large structural imbalances. International Law was highly flawed in that regard owing back to Bretton Woods. But of course it benefits everyone at th
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You are 100% correct. Free Trade hasn't been disproven, only the inane notion that one should pursue unreciproval free trade with a countries that perform mercantalism against them. The consumer isn't everything, the worker does m
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This is a tired talking point. If the EU stopped those imports abruptly they'd blow up their own economies and there would be chaos on the streets. It is stupid that they put themselves in that position, but they've also greatly r
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Well clearly clinging free trade while others pursue protectionism/industrial strategy at massive scales against you isn't sustainable. Is it hypocrisy of you decide to punch back after getting punched? Not really. And China certa
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>As soon as China tries to compete with the rich monopolies, the "free market" goes out of the window and becomes "free to do as we tell you". When China cannot compete with incumbents those protections also go up and
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Economic Nationalism is not Communism by any sense. Nor is responding to mercantilism. But the CCP explicitly considers themselves Marxism-Leninism with and their internal beliefs and government structure is structurally follows that. We co
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To be honest, I don't think all these purchases have actually improved their image beyond useful allies in the current culture war. And it dosen't help that they're buying AAA studios in the midst of the AAA crisis. Modern we
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Dosen't mean you specifically will survive till the next conflict.
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Also probably to note that much of the "ideological" battles in early Europe, whether it was legitimacy for the throne or religious conflicts tended to end in sobering sieges not unlike Gaza. The difference is they actually all di
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You're going to loose to Russia and China in time.
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Dosen't the US have the largest gold reserves?
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I don't think we would colonizing Mars, free floating colonies akin to O'Neil Cylinders orbiting Earth would probably be the more logical option. And with increasing robotic automation capabilities, it's not improbable to see
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>Ok, cutting taxes to the very rich while raising them on middle and lower classes and cutting services. This was part of the big beautiful bill. This is 'logical' from the point of view of the billionaire class Deciding who be
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Even if you only had a handful of civilizations, the sheer time that has passed and size of the universe should mean that life should still be alot more apparent. With sublight velocities achievable today, I recall it would only take around
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I've asking multiple posters to give a specific policy example to critique and so far all of you have been unable to do so, instead dancing around and critiquing vague notions of a possibility of bias without giving concrete examples.
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You're pointing to a critique of an assumption, what I'm saying can you name a specific economic policy or position given by an economist that is used in real public policy and then we can measure the merits of those policies and
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>All the historical episodes I referred to were deluded people coming up with nice-sounding theories on why they deserved to take other people's stuff or force their compliance by force. There's no need to debunk a gish-gallop.
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>But, economists will just assume it is, because they assume everything is a free market, and then apply free market dynamics. Basically, they skip step 1, and go to step 1000. Which economist are you referring to here? It's hard to
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>Weimar Germany collapsed due to the terms of Treaty of Versailles which essentially broke Germany's economy (Germany was essentially already in a depression well before the US). This is completely wrong. Weimar Germany endured sign

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