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That's a rather reductive way to look at it. You can't just snap you fingers and go from capitalism to communism. In fact, a big part of the argument Marx makes is that communism will not be possible until productive forces are sufficiently developed. All these countries have communists in power, but they are in a socialist stage of development. Furthermore, the dominant global system is itself capitalist, which puts limits on what individual countries can accomplish internally.

Saying that they merely change the way capitalism is managed ignores a fundamental difference between the two. The goal of private enterprise is to create profit for the owners through appropriation of the value the labor of the workers creates. On the other hand, the primary goal of the state owned enterprise is to provide social value. In this scenario, the labor of the workers directly benefit society and workers themselves. So, while the social relations within the state owned enterprise may resemble those in private capitalist enterprise, their goals are very different.

From what I've seen the driving culture in China does seem to be a lot more relaxed than in western countries. I've seen lots of videos of people driving scooters on sidewalks and so on. The legal responsibility is a good question, I would assume the company making the scooter would be responsible since they're making the self driving system for it.

If this tech works well I can see it making things incredibly convenient. You could just leave your scooter somewhere, and then have it come find you, or you could even share a scooter with a friend this way.

these are the minds of people running the US government

21T in 17 years does seem fantastical to me as well.

I think the scale of it is almost certainly bullshit, but given that we know there are billionaire bunkers, I can imagine that there would've been some program in a similar style for the political class.

Seems unlikely, but they don't give a timescale either. If they've been building this shit since the height of the cold war in the 60s, it certainly could be in trillions now.

The catch is in justifying spending the resources needed to take this from the lab to mass production. No company is willing to invest hundreds of billions that would be needed when they can keep squeezing a bit more performance out of silicon at a lower investment. That's why this sort of stuff requires state level funding, and now that US is cutting China off from western chips, there's a really big incentive to provide that sort of funding.

I'm simply amazed by your amazing and well argued counterpoint. Bravo champ.

So, the whole anti-AI movement is deeply reactionary as I explain in detail here https://lemmy.ml/post/29190434

The EU’s seizure of Russian foreign assets, without legal justification, isn't helping either. By unilaterally appropriating these holdings, the bloc has set a precedent that any nation outside the West would reasonably question: what assurances exist that the EU wouldn’t replicate this tactic against their assets in the event of political conflict?

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/europe-hand-billions-frozen-russian-cash-western-investors-sources-say-2025-05-02/

I don't expect that China would want their currency to necessarily become the reserve since it would mean it would have to be freely convertible. However, digital RMB cross-border settlement system is now connected to ten ASEAN and six Middle Eastern countries, potentially bypassing the SWIFT system for about 38% of global trade. I expect, China will use the drop in demand for US currency to urge further dedollarization.

Exactly, at this point it's becoming clear that Mozilla is the problem. The amount of money it would take to simply fund a team of devs actively working on FF is a fraction of the money Mozilla pulls in. Most of that money is spent on execs, middle management, and random projects that they come up with to justify their existence.

Seems like China is best positioned to capitalize on the collapse of confidence in the US as the global reserve. It's the only major power that can guarantee economic growth and stability going forward.

I did a bit more digging and found some IP ranges published here, agree this is useful info for everyone and should've been published more prominently https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-01-17/China-releases-report-on-U-S-cyberattacks-targeting-a-tech-enterprise-1AeN1twfTqM/p.html

here's the site where all the CNCERT reports are published https://www.cert.org.cn/publish/english/115/index.html

I very much agree, the platforms have to be qualitatively different in nature to make it worth moving.

coming full circle given that German nazis used US as their model

I mean once you switch off from key things like email, calendar, and cloud storage, then it's a lot easier to move over to a different device.

lol

And it's only 2% if the overall economy to boot.