I was hoping the pandemic and the war in europe would teach us that electronics, particularly high end, should be relocated to allied countries at the very least.
One interesting line of thought (I don't share personally (yet) but find compelling as a dystopian possibility) is that the dirty business of censoring/filtering is outsourced by private companies (i.e. Big Tech with their unparalleled outreach: Twitter, Alphabet, Meta ... ) so that governments can wash their hands of it.
[0]https://medium.com/smartaim-tech/war-for-money-leading-priva...
I remember reading the same argument in the 90s, and it seemed to have a lot of merit. But, experience shows us that it’s not correct.
Putin called it a "special military operation" for a reason. It was supposed to be like Czechoslovakia in 1968. The troops go in, reach Kyiv in a few days, and take over without any real fighting. Ukraine was not supposed to be able and willing to resist. Russian military didn't even know there was going to be a war, which is why it failed so catastrophically in the first days.
The outcome of this war is going to determine whether international trade is still an effective deterrent. If Russian economy depends so much on Western technology that they will lose in the long term regardless of the oucome of the war, this was just the exception that tests the rule. If the West gives up and resumes trading with Russia, the deterrent will be gone.
China has been India’s largest trading partner for many years. Yet when there was a recent border dispute, everyone was willing to forego all economic ties in favor of a conflict.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=It'....
so, one by one:
1. Not my own stuff
2. Not soliciting upvotes
3. Am kind, just busy so i don't have time to summarize for you the paper that you can just as well read yourself. In fact, it has an abstract, which is a summary, right up front.
Funnily enough, this was how war functioned in Europe between 1500-1750s. Armies were too expensive to maintain, so states hired mercenaries. The problem was that mercenaries wouldn't have any incentive to risk themselves to end things quickly. And when you inevitably run out of money to pay them, in the best case they'd just pack up and leave. In the worst case, they'd loot your city on the way out.
Source: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691027647/ma...
Could we at least outsource the NYC MTA to them?
He did the same dog and pony show in Great Brittain.
Having moved all of this outside the free world we slowed down progress in our own countries. Imagine being forced to come up with cheaper alternatives at home where we’d be with robotics, automation and space mining today. Instead we finance countries that seek to challenge us.
Chuckled here.
Do you realized that normal American people are being outsourced and they don't have much say to determine the process?
Your words read like a slave joking with fellow slaves: one day our master will outsourcing to some other nations.
That's truly sad analogy.