Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
Yup. Cyber, space, and tech are the new battlegrounds for nation state competition. America has the upper hand when it comes to tech, education, and innovation...but our politics get in the way of progress
Exactly. Demonstratively, China is ahead of America...but only because America can't get its head out of it's bipartisan ass. Most of the tech China displays is stuff that America has had, but will not deploy due to culture, beaucracy, and honestly racism.
While the rest of the world squabbles over whether or not to give a stimulus and how to apply it, China gave themselves a stimulus in the form of infrastructure expansion. America thinks infrastructure rebuilding is a jobs plan. Of course the fukk it is...you have to rebuild the country for a new economy and new technological world. Meanwhile you have politicians asking how are we going to pay for it. That's not the question to ask right now.
I feel America could facilitate a clear superiority over China within a generation if they applied themselves now. I called it an altruistic manifest destiny in another thread. They won't because partisan politics are too concerned with not letting the otherside win. See fukkass Nancy Pelosi's reductions for the new stimulus proposals.
The 2 party system has to go. The country won't make it another 100 years if it stays.