I have read capital volume one maybe two and a half times. I wonder how close to Pikkety’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century Marx might have written today. I haven’t read Capital in the Twenty-First Century but think it is worth the time and effort it would take to study. I will find the time at some point.
That isn’t strategy.
I am referring to the fact that Trump seems to want America to be a manufacturing base, but does he have a plan to achieve this, beyond creating developing world conditions in the USA? He might be able to create conditions within the US where labour and environmental costs are cheap enough to be competitive with India or China, but is that actually his aim?
If he wants the US to be a manufacturing base he/his administration would need a much weaker dollar, which would necessitate at least various countries selling their dollar reserves. Does he want people to buy bitcoins as a strategic reserve rather than, say, Yuan? Does he realise that encouraging countries to give up on the dollar as global reserve currency is forcing the US to pay its debts finally? Is really an admission of defeat for the US, and the end of the US empire?
The fascism/racism seems innate to his personality rather than anything strategic, but why look to destabilise Europe into it rearming itself away from US arms manufacturers? He can’t expect countries to view the USA as anything beyond a competitor to China or India after this, can he?
Is his interest in Canada and Greenland simply because he has been told that sea ice is collapsing and the Arctic is going to be of strategic importance going forward? Or is he looking to start some kind of hot world war in order to try and recreate the conditions post WW2, where I could easily see his idea of a ‘GREAT’ America might have come from?
His tactics are easily exploitable: see Russia. It is hard to figure out if his administration has any kind of strategy in terms of geopolitics or geoeconomics.
On the one hand you have to take Trump seriously because he is dangerous, on the other he definitely is an idiot.
It is easy to post a response containing no information whatsoever.
Fascism might not be the inevitable outcome of decades of ‘the west’s’ brand of neo-liberalism on top of the historical circumstances to which it was applied, but, all things considered, it is hard to imagine an alternative.
Make America great by regressing it to developing world standards so labour and environmental costs are cheap enough to compete with China or India, so manufacturing can happen there again.
The oligarchy are the only people that profit from this.
It is really hard to believe how Americans did not get this.
Democracy is supposed to need an educated populace. Capitalism doesn’t. America made its choice for some bizarre reason.
Seems a bit ostentatious.
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The US can just impose a reciprocal tax on Polish tech’s US earnings.
Carney is a neo-liberal banker. Him being the best option really isn’t a good thing.
Musk’s various ponzi schemes, up to the Artemis-killing SpaceX fiasco, were coming due. Trump provided the opportunity for him to pivot into government, by replacing it with his AI, gps with starlink, air traffic control with whatever he comes up with, etc etc etc, making himself even more too big to fail. The US government the latest offering on the ponzi|pyramid. Trump’s ideology aligning with Musk’s own true beliefs is a bonus.
It will severely weaken the US in direct measurable short and long-term ways, to the point it is a real disaster for the US. Those to blame are all those that never called him out throughout his rise. Not to mention those governments (Republican and Democrat) who fed him public money throughout the entire period.
Edit - Bezos’s The Washington Post is apparently supporting him now. No surprise, they want an oligarchy. The Democrats are moving rightward, they are more or less happy with it too.
I guess it is some version of the land of the free home of the brave, but maybe it is the freedom to do what you want if you’re rich, and have been brave enough to brazenly take everything and exploit everyone.
This is what Canadian and European rivals of the US should have been doing for some time, and should be doing now.
Yeah it is other countries fault, lol.
Another 50% claim to have read a book.
10% have read a book
Do you really want to carry your lifetime supply of honey around with you every time you move apartment?
What other foodstuffs are you going to buy your lifetime supply of? Dried goods? Tins? You could get yourself a winnebago and fill it with all your lifetime’s worth of food or something, which would make lugging it all around with you forever easier. Just hope nobody nicks it.
It’s either obvious bullshit, or the bloke is out of his depth.
I suppose I should try and not just throw people under the bus, but I struggle to buy it.