We are indeed being fed a cartoon story of villainy, on our iPhones, about our iPhones, and don't you dare take my iPhone away from me by raising the price of my next iPhone.*
"At every point, America – or, to speak properly, elite factions within America – had most of the agency."
Thank you for the short stroll back in time to consider what Nixon hoped to get out of the deal in the 70s, long before Clinton made deals in the 90s.
And through the 00s and 10s, "America’s monied elites, who by this time had major business connections with China, kept up the charade that every surrender to China on a matter of principle was somehow bringing China into the West’s cultural orbit...
But at no point was America truly victimized from without. The American business executives who knew that putting their factories in China would mean getting their trade secrets stolen, but did it anyway, were not acting with a gun to their heads – they just weren’t thinking past the next quarterly earnings report."
*I don't have an iPhone. People are not thinking past their next iPhone.
Too true. America may well have started out this century in a much stronger position than its rivals, and also having better principles than them (Third-worlder stans: why do huge numbers of people immigrate to the US but not Russia or China?) but if we don't think in the long term, and they do, then we're still going to lose.
One HUGE error, middle class Americans don't want multifamily housing to increase home values. They don't want poor people around them. Even many enthusiastic YIMBYs who want massive increases in housing want their particular neighborhood to be exempt from renter scum.
No - it's not a "HUGE error" for me to acknowledge the existence of people with motives other than yours. It may be true that YOU don't want "renter scum" around, but that doesn't explain why (for instance) it's so slow and expensive to get permits to build more and taller apartments even in parts of cities that are already zoned for multifamily units, especially in places like California.
Now it's true that a lot of the opposition to living near poor people would go away if America had more police and cracked down harder on shoplifting, bike theft, etc. before letting the perpetrators graduate to bigger crimes. (Which is why in Japan and the less Islamified parts of Europe the middle classes are not only comfortable living in big apartments in walkable districts, but also riding public transit.)
But the claim that the middle classes not wanting poor people around is the ONLY reason that it's hard to get building permits for apartments in America is ludicrous.
As the late Joe Sobran said, the purpose of a college education is to learn how very very wonderful racial minority groups are, and to allow its recipients to make enough money to live as far away from these groups as possible.
We are indeed being fed a cartoon story of villainy, on our iPhones, about our iPhones, and don't you dare take my iPhone away from me by raising the price of my next iPhone.*
"At every point, America – or, to speak properly, elite factions within America – had most of the agency."
Thank you for the short stroll back in time to consider what Nixon hoped to get out of the deal in the 70s, long before Clinton made deals in the 90s.
And through the 00s and 10s, "America’s monied elites, who by this time had major business connections with China, kept up the charade that every surrender to China on a matter of principle was somehow bringing China into the West’s cultural orbit...
But at no point was America truly victimized from without. The American business executives who knew that putting their factories in China would mean getting their trade secrets stolen, but did it anyway, were not acting with a gun to their heads – they just weren’t thinking past the next quarterly earnings report."
*I don't have an iPhone. People are not thinking past their next iPhone.
Too true. America may well have started out this century in a much stronger position than its rivals, and also having better principles than them (Third-worlder stans: why do huge numbers of people immigrate to the US but not Russia or China?) but if we don't think in the long term, and they do, then we're still going to lose.
One HUGE error, middle class Americans don't want multifamily housing to increase home values. They don't want poor people around them. Even many enthusiastic YIMBYs who want massive increases in housing want their particular neighborhood to be exempt from renter scum.
No - it's not a "HUGE error" for me to acknowledge the existence of people with motives other than yours. It may be true that YOU don't want "renter scum" around, but that doesn't explain why (for instance) it's so slow and expensive to get permits to build more and taller apartments even in parts of cities that are already zoned for multifamily units, especially in places like California.
Now it's true that a lot of the opposition to living near poor people would go away if America had more police and cracked down harder on shoplifting, bike theft, etc. before letting the perpetrators graduate to bigger crimes. (Which is why in Japan and the less Islamified parts of Europe the middle classes are not only comfortable living in big apartments in walkable districts, but also riding public transit.)
But the claim that the middle classes not wanting poor people around is the ONLY reason that it's hard to get building permits for apartments in America is ludicrous.
As the late Joe Sobran said, the purpose of a college education is to learn how very very wonderful racial minority groups are, and to allow its recipients to make enough money to live as far away from these groups as possible.
Very interesting, and just the subject we ought to be discussing now.
With respect to China, this essay should be read by everyone:
https://www.unz.com/bhua/some-observations-about-the-zhuhai-airshow/