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androidsixteen
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A model for the USA for the next ~10 years: a live player without moral scruples Upside is that it can dynamically respond to challenges like an overblown budget or shifting world powers. Downside is that it will fail to honor commitments and abide by rules (even those it may previously have set up itself) Eg. Throwing Europe under the bus and consolidating regional powers under its umbrella while front-running dead players as the current order collapses Short-term, it’s practical and may stave off more existential risks like insolvency or weakening military prowess Long-term, it gives up the hope of being the “city upon a hill”. Trust is earned slowly and eroded quickly The USA may remain a leader in many things — entrepreneurship, dynamism, military might, pure resource abundance, etc. But it can no longer be the indispensable nation, because it is giving up that story proactively before others can. Whether you mourn this is dependent on how you view it — a coming of age, or paradise lost
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
why would we lose "city upon the hill"? still the best place to move. where else?
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
Too expensive to keep shipping things uphill More practical to settle by the river like China and everyone else
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Dan Romero
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China doesn’t do immigration? Why aren’t US bonds performing worse then?
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androidsixteen
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Increasingly we also don’t do immigration — less “give me your downtrodden” and more stem workers and gold cards China is a better city upon the hill on other fronts Market is all for real politik. Values cost money
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
> China is a better city upon the hill on other fronts Except if you get disappeared. :) How does the CCP score on the Bill of Rights values?
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androidsixteen
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Yeah, wouldn’t want to be Uighur But doesn’t mean they don’t get their house in order
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
I'm highly skeptical of a CCP-run version of China that's not more authoritarian over the next 10-20 years than today. Closing, my point is moral leadership ultimately is the laws and society you have. We have plenty to fix at home. More focus on that, less on other people's problems (because we happened to do that during the Cold War).
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