Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Please elaborate?

China has a huge population & seems to have far fewer scruples when it comes to stealing IP, developing unpopular/plausibly unethical tech, sorting out & rigorously educating the most capable young people, & streamlining political moves by subduing the general population

We can turn the table

I think it's possible but I also think that's something we somewhat concretely have to *decide* to do, and relatively soon

> "If you don't like communism" This is kinda straw-man-ish, bc there isn't a significant proportion of people calling for communism. (Ok, maybe they seem prominent in *your* TL, but you wouldn't see it in a survey that's careful in how it asks people about policy preferences.)

People who push left want capitalism *reigned in*, specifically in limited areas where government-controlled systems are known to be more helpful for most people (e.g. healthcare). No one is seriously calling for capitalism to be *abolished* (not in significant numbers).

I think people in the narrow elite have mostly concluded that, which is why protostates like the EU that have a similar beaurocratic nature to China are being favoured. The TTP was going to be the U.S version, similar to the Coal and Steel community that preceeded the modern EU.