Dawg was just rambling. Singapore has a strong clamp on personal freedoms and self expression and a massive population of people who are mandarin and Cantonese speakers. Of course it isn't going to be critical of the neighbor next to it with billions of dollars it needs to gain investment from.
America will collapse but I think it's common sense at this point what the factors for that collapse will be:
A. Sacrificing the middle class to please the 1%. America grew when homes and consumer goods were affordable because when a business made profit, it reinvested a good chunk of that profit into what generated the profit to begin with(it's workers and the projects they're working on). Now they raise the prices without raising the wages leading to a situation where people literally cannot afford the products they're working on and promoting.
B. Entrenchment of big business in politics. It's literally against a politicians own financial interest to regulate firms like Blackrock, Google, Microsoft or Amazon. They don't release their investment portfolios to the public for a reason.
C. Selling off it's manufacturing to other countries. America's productive capacity is in shambles because of how much of the products American firms make require foreign labor. If China, India, Mexico, Vietnam, and Bangladesh suffered a plague, war, demographic collapse etc. These companies would be fukked because they'd have to try and replicate their productive capacity domestically. That's not happening because that's literally billions of money that would be going to paying dividends to investors that will now have to go into construction of infrastructure, recruitment and retention of staff. They'd also have to appeal to the government to modernize America's infrastructure since they were benefiting off smooth roads and bridges that weren't built a century ago to transport cargo.
D. Continuing to waste tax money on wars which are taxing an already overused military struggling to replenish its supply of recruits. Switching to drones won't solve the problem of reflexes and cognitive speed dulling in old age.
E. Running away from competition. Tiktok has a good algorithm? Why can't meta make a better one? BYD has a vehicle that goes as far as a Tesla with half the price? Why can't Tesla release a cheaper model to undercut them on price? No instead they tell the government "hey if these guys come here, they will cut into our profit margins. Your pension won't be looking so secure. Ban them." And because the median age of an American politician is 55(much closer to retirement and more concerned with the immediate future rather than the world 30 to 40 years from now) they will. When you start fukking with THEIR money that's when American politicians take action. They don't care if you're broke. They care if the extra zeroes in their bank account start disappearing.
China has its own problems around these things too. They're only now really trying to regulate their own megafirms but it might be too late. They're about 60-75 years behind america when it comes to rights for women and people of different ethnicities. Because young people aren't having children, and the government is hostile to alternative ideas and cultures, immigration isn't an option for them because then they'll have people coming in with religion, language, alternative cultures etc. Authoritarianism is not compatible with diversity.
The "woke" boogeyman is nonsense. If you empower groups who've been ignored and disenfranchised for years, you build productive capacity. Women who would've been getting high on Xanax or day drunk as stay at home wives would be working a part time or full time job. Black people with ideas who would've been relegated to a shytty position in the company because they don't "fit the culture" of the management team, would be leading projects that help the company. Investing in mental and other health will mean that instead of a person becoming a homeless drug addict high on opiates to relieve their back pain, they'll be back to work and checking in with a doctor every few weeks to refill their medication. Supporting immigrants means you're getting them to work for your companies, pay into your tax system and grow your economy. Highlighting differences in the population in an attempt to turn one group against another for political gain is the oldest trick in the book that everyone does(even China despite their cowardly attempts to erase their own Ls from history)
