But for other hidden low-cost supply chains, where the end of the line is poorly treated humans working with non-living raw materials — minerals, plastics, whatever — same logic works. Automate away what living pain what you can, differentiate to price right what you can’t.
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The generation of millennial activist college kids from 10-20 years ago (just a little younger than me) who gave us our current state of play is now getting its first taste of political power. Their first attempts at reform (eg GND) have been mixtures of incompetence and grift.
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BUT, there’s a minority that is doing the actual work. They’ve walked the fake-it-till-you-make-it path. They understand the problems, are interested in more than virtue signaling, and in solutions that go beyond reactionary labor politics and knee-jerk anti-globalism.
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Perhaps most importantly, in the last 4 years, they’ve gotten a first taste of the adult political battles that will shape the rest of their lives: against ethno-nationalist extraction-oriented industrial capitalism. The anti-globalists on the right. Their evil twins.
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The two sides share many elements of the diagnosis (hence the horseshoe-theory flipping between Trump and Bernie support. But otherwise they are poles apart. One side simply wants their shot at extraction. The other side wants a non-extractive approach to the economy.
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This battle will mature, deepen, get 100x more serious, and dominate the next few decades. Chickenification is not an isolated pattern. It’s the fingerprint of global geopolitical and techno-socio-economic futures. Everywhere you see it, the war has arrived for real with Covid.
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We conclude this sermon thread with a very tasty virtue signal. The Just Egg breakfast quesadilla I just made for myself. Repent ye sinners (within your respective budgets). A more virtuous life is possible.pic.twitter.com/pEzJnNZ1KT
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