i see we are parsing words. I have no disagreement with what you say, but without the MIC, as you put it, there would be no spoils to loot. I feel you overestimate Musk, just as he does. He could be taken down by dozens, if not hundreds of 'competitors. His wealth is almost completely PAPER. These illusions of wealth have dominated the a…
i see we are parsing words. I have no disagreement with what you say, but without the MIC, as you put it, there would be no spoils to loot. I feel you overestimate Musk, just as he does. He could be taken down by dozens, if not hundreds of 'competitors. His wealth is almost completely PAPER. These illusions of wealth have dominated the addicted for many decades, if not millenia, but in the past at least they had precious metals, or land or water or healthy dirt. Now they have gadgets and yachts and rockets and buildings that house no one, or island fortresses that we all wish they would retire to - 0.000000001 percent of the land mass of the planet. I wish you would not attempt to upstage me. I am not even on the stage. So yesterday is, well, today. I like reading your observations, so can we just abandon the useless rhetoric?
I am not trying to upstage you. Strange that you would see my exception in that light.
can't put together your idea that without a MIC there would be no spoils, except that every person or government depends on armed force (we can call them police, militia or army, to secure our possessions.
As regards wealth how do we define wealth? Dollars, Special Drawing Rights, Euro's, Peso's, land, things? I define wealth as that which makes one happy.
I consider myself very wealthy indeed, though my physical condition could use a little help, but altogether at my age, not too bad.
But, forgive me, I do feel talk of the MIC and imperialism are so yesterday
Imperialism in the sense of nation states, creating an empire.
We too are so past that in today.
Power too today is the ability to command resources, and that ability relies on ones ability to command a medium of exchange and how it is utilized and distributed.
There is a no post MIC, imperialism as it were, independent of an armed force, except as a tool to be wielded to secure power.
The new imperialism, is personal, trans national, trans ideological, trans everything.
The thing is that the new imperialist will eventually come into conflict with each other, and then they will deploy their resources, their MIC, in their service.
In the digital age of communications the MIC is simply a tool, and it looks to me like the winner is going to be China, because it is hungry,not fat, full and satisfied like "Silicon valley"
Silicon valley squashes competition and incentives, China fosters both.
While Musk rapes our country in his insane ques to be the Elon of Mars, China will be trying to harvest nodules on the moon.
i see we are parsing words. I have no disagreement with what you say, but without the MIC, as you put it, there would be no spoils to loot. I feel you overestimate Musk, just as he does. He could be taken down by dozens, if not hundreds of 'competitors. His wealth is almost completely PAPER. These illusions of wealth have dominated the addicted for many decades, if not millenia, but in the past at least they had precious metals, or land or water or healthy dirt. Now they have gadgets and yachts and rockets and buildings that house no one, or island fortresses that we all wish they would retire to - 0.000000001 percent of the land mass of the planet. I wish you would not attempt to upstage me. I am not even on the stage. So yesterday is, well, today. I like reading your observations, so can we just abandon the useless rhetoric?
I am not trying to upstage you. Strange that you would see my exception in that light.
can't put together your idea that without a MIC there would be no spoils, except that every person or government depends on armed force (we can call them police, militia or army, to secure our possessions.
As regards wealth how do we define wealth? Dollars, Special Drawing Rights, Euro's, Peso's, land, things? I define wealth as that which makes one happy.
I consider myself very wealthy indeed, though my physical condition could use a little help, but altogether at my age, not too bad.
But, forgive me, I do feel talk of the MIC and imperialism are so yesterday
Imperialism in the sense of nation states, creating an empire.
We too are so past that in today.
Power too today is the ability to command resources, and that ability relies on ones ability to command a medium of exchange and how it is utilized and distributed.
There is a no post MIC, imperialism as it were, independent of an armed force, except as a tool to be wielded to secure power.
The new imperialism, is personal, trans national, trans ideological, trans everything.
The thing is that the new imperialist will eventually come into conflict with each other, and then they will deploy their resources, their MIC, in their service.
In the digital age of communications the MIC is simply a tool, and it looks to me like the winner is going to be China, because it is hungry,not fat, full and satisfied like "Silicon valley"
Silicon valley squashes competition and incentives, China fosters both.
While Musk rapes our country in his insane ques to be the Elon of Mars, China will be trying to harvest nodules on the moon.