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honkycat ◴[] No.44423200[source]
It's not AI. We are in a recession caused by fear and instability.

Tech may just be dying in general.

This could finally be the collapse we have been waiting for.

While the US was allowing capitalists to hoard all of the USs excess capital, China was facilitating the development of important industries via central planning.

Look at Intel. The owning class has become so greedy and incompetent. They aren't even running functional companies anymore: just grifting for government money then using that for stock buybacks.

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skirge ◴[] No.44423249[source]
stupid government is the root cause - and government is chosen by voters and does what voters want it to do. China is monarchy and monarchs listen to no one.
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mgol94 ◴[] No.44423646[source]
For US democracy replace "voters" with "lobbyists"
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9rx ◴[] No.44423708[source]
Voters and lobbyists are the same thing. Regularly telling your elected hire what to do is the onus on all participants in a representative system. The employee you hired isn't a mind reader.

The only reason we imagine that there is a distinction is because most voters are too lazy to talk to the person they hired, so those who do stand out.

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honkycat ◴[] No.44424198[source]
> Voters and lobbyists are the same thing

one is a large corporation with money paying for access and favors, the other is a regular person who votes. Absolutely absurd.

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1. 9rx ◴[] No.44424494[source]
You may be thinking of a specific lobbyist, but that specificity is now only being introduced in your comment. It does not apply to comments that came earlier.

It remains that the system of government in the US expects regular lobbying from all voters. Without other qualifiers, lobbyists and voters are the same thing.