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I don't think TSMC has much interest in building fabs in US because it's one card they hold over the US at the moment.

I'd argue that once the commercial enterprise and business sector of a city dies off the rest necessarily follows. People living in suburbs and and the periphery tend to have jobs downtown. So, once the jobs start disappearing then people have to go find work somewhere else too.

It's true that remote work is a factor in this, but general economic downturn is playing a role here as well. Consumer spending is down, and this is causing a lot of the stores to shutter due to lack of business. There's also secondary impact from remote work here as well, since less people coming downtown means less business.

The whole organization of the cities is ultimately a reflection of economic organization. We're now seeing a shift to remote work in some sectors as you mention, but also lots of other economic changes happening in parallel with that. So, I do think it's fair to say that cities are now dying out because the economy that used to support them is disappearing.

looks like :)

Right, it's not so much about SGP as prosecution of communists in Germany.

oh yeah cropping fail on my part 😅

For sure, I notice that a lot of people in the west don't actually understand the fundamentals of what an economy are. It's not GDP, or stock markets, money supply, or all the other junk people tend to talk about. What actually matters is resource and labour allocation. You have a certain number of people living in the country, and these people have access to the resources that are available to them. The job of the economy is to manage allocation of labour to transforms the available resources into things people need to live. If the economy isn't allocating labour in a way that results in people having their needs met, then you start having problems.

TIL

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Yup, that sounds like run of the mill Chinese dissident alright.

it's a clown convention

it's different!

While it's true that genocide is a somewhat ambiguous term, it's widely used and most people understand the intended meaning behind it. I do think that calls to avoid using the term from western media are in fact malicious. These calls come from the same publications that had no problems using the term in the context of Ukraine, and they're certainly not going to switch to using a more descriptive term like extermination.

lol no idea

I think most people realized that China would catch up eventually, what's shocking is the sheer speed of it. I thought it would at least take 3-4 years before China broke 5nm barrier, but here we are less than a year later.

It's just such a perfect visual allegory for the empire

Living in the west, it can often feel like we're isolated, so there is value in letting each other know we're not alone.

It's true, I can't think of any system that's more efficient at destroying the environment on a planetary scale.

Nobody said this would be easy, but capitalism is definitely in a crisis now while the China is going from strength to strength. I think there's every reason to be optimistic.

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