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Whats really interesting about our timeline is when you look at the history of market capture in Big Oil, Telco, Pharma, Real Estate, Banks, Tobacco etc all the lobbying, bribing, competition killing used to be done behind the scenes within elite circles.

The public hardly heard from or saw the mgmt of these firm in media until shit hit the fan.

Today it feels like managment is in the media every 3 hours trying to capture attention of prospective customers, investors, employees etc or they loose out to whoever is out there capturing more attention.

So false and condradictory signalling is easy to see. Hopefully out of all this chaos we get a better class of leaders not a better class of panderers.

In the defense of the people, there has been an explosion of useless information. Just look at the number of settings on an Android phone or Chrome browser or in your Google account. Human Brains dont grow at the same rate year on year.

Yet their own people are quiting over their claims - https://grist.org/accountability/microsoft-employees-spent-y...

Its more that the army, navy airforce world over all are heavy oil guzzlers. Its not going to simple if its a long war.

Agree. Difference being the amount of stuff competing for kids Attention has exponentially increased. Attention Theft is a phrase I read on HN a while back. Felt like a good description of the main dynamic in the Attention Economy.

Well US is not dependent on anyone for her Energy needs. Unlike China. Its quite vulnerable on that front if a few pipelines blow up ala nord stream.

This is also why the US has such a large presence in the middle east.

I dont know if they teach the Theory of Bounded Rationality anymore but it helped me when I was younger and got thrown into similar complex no win situations.

The tendency is to think ALL complex problems can be solved if I just have the right info, the right skill, the right people, the right resources, enough time etc etc. But for some problems the stars will not align. In those cases what do you do?

You have 2 option - 1. pick a Simpler problem where u do have the info, skill, resources, people, time to ensure the outcome is going to be positive 2. pick the complex problem but accept you are not going to solve it completely.

There is an alternate option which is stop putting everything online and using the cloud.

The benefits have been greatly oversold by BigTech multimillion $$$ sales teams. They are lots of stories of bribery involving these contracts.

Once upon a time I used to live in libraries to make any kind of progress on certain problems. Then Google arrived and my library visits reduced drastically. Yet libraries still stand. And I still head there whenever I need some peace and quite. Something like that will happen with StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Quora,Reddit and even HN.