Businesses/orgs that have smart leaders

So very few

But agreed its easy for centralized businesses/entities to eventually migrate their stuff into quantum secure systems. Theirs like a 100B for whoever can crack satoshi’s bitcoin keys

Marx himself wrote this long ass book explaining the capitalism of his time, yet modern leftist have no interest understanding the capitalism of their time.

forgot to specify asymmetric encryption good point

I 100% pirate games because of price what are people even talking about. Most of the launchers work fine ime. Valve has linux support which is nice

Who are these people who are constantly talking about cross-fit, veganism, and linux irl.

Crypto seems like alot lower on the list of problems that will happen if encryption no longer works

Shipping stuff is cheap if you have alot of it for example

https://freightify.com/ship-containers/china puts a 40ft container at max $6000, which in practice can fit around 26000kg, so per kg you are paying around 26 cents per kg shipped. You would get even better deals I assume if you had contracts setup to do bulk business with freighters

Yeah I also didn’t think of the translation part too, good point

It is quite literally giving the consumer what they want, unfortunately the consumers are dumb

to anyone with half a brain yeah

Surely we can charge more than 1B

“No One in This World Has Ever Lost Money by Underestimating the Intelligence of the Great Masses of the Plain People”

Working at Big Tech companies all I can say is their are whole teams trying to find ways to hill climb revenue using analytics. Given we have seen media like Music continue to get shorter and focus on moments that can fit into a tiktok video, I think its safe to say if Netflix thought they could make a lot of money with better writing, they would push for that and create an HBO or AppleTV style model for content.

You have a idea of war informed by Hollywood and WW2 documentaries, war is both more normal and more horrifying than you think.

People are dumb, no need for any American Exceptionalism here

I really want him to just implement government price controls, I want to see the Libertarian/Capitalist trump supporters I know try to argue this

I wonder if its due to how closely Anime attempts to animate Manga? I feel like you can kind of “explain” what happens in text alot more smoothly than on a TV show due to how much faster you ingest knowledge.

people like the idea of liking good stuff, they do not like good stuff. This is the #1 rule of making money

We need a Georgist community on lemmy. Rent Seekers BEGONE

You can get Chinese prices if your citizens are willing to work like the Chinese, no one in the West will.

Autarky is also largely a degrowth argument, most Westerners already feel like they should consume even more so it’s impossible to win unless your voters fall for Donald Trump esque arguments. The modern Westerner lives one of the most opulent lives in the world history on the back of cheap third world labor.

edit: If you believe the Trump admin has a plan, they are trying to thread needle by devaluing the US Dollar just enough to incentivize manufacturing, but keeping it high enough that the average US consumer doesn’t feel the hit. They then leverage tariffs for preferential trade deals with other countries. I don’t think its really working but its the only way you could revitalize manufacturing in the west at this point

Its a good litmus test if someone has any intellectual curiosity, I know people who have prestigious degrees who think stuff like this.