AmericanEconomicThinkTank

Interesting, I’m starting to see what you mean there. Comparable to US steel quality dropping and being supplanted by Japan, or currently China.

Hell even the axis started using compressed cardboard by the end of the war.

I recall hearing the statements about bone health increasing in the generations after the collapse of the Rome and the such. That ring true? What piqued your interest in the era?

It’s almost funny seeing the unblinkimg sycophants working the same idea across the media spectrum the past few weeks in preparation.

Honestly primary these guys.

Pretty much.

Interesting comparison though, sad to say my understanding of old world economics is too low to give a real answer in that regard lol.

Well to give you a real answer that would depend on how you look at it. Transport industry tends to favor east coast, but that’s mostly thanks to legacy infrastructure.

On the other hand, the past few years of infrastructure bills promoted southwest manufacturing uptick due to easier tax rates, preferred interest from government structures, and as well lower cost workforce that require lower per capita investment for bringing training up to speed.

California had a whole bunch, between strong port access, strong technical expertise, the whole Silicon Valley thing lol.

But given current administration policies, attitudes towards education achievements, and importance of targeted subsidizing, nevermind everything else the past 40 or so years of privatization. It’s a lot to catch up on, most of which requires long term planning.

Of course then you could get into the economics side of things, and that the amount invested through our own foreign direct investment brings about greater income in the long run. Basically by subsidizing foreign production of different goods, we don’t bear the cost of better research and investment in the future, we can use trade agreements to purchase, say computer chips to keep things consistent, which have stipulations that the exporting country purchase mass quantities of lower trade goods at a price advantageous to us.

So uh, it’s pretty much a loose loose situation here lol.

Surely you couldn’t expect our representatives and congressmen to be motivated to work by anything other the big bucks.

Considering everyone in the room knows the Commander in Chief wouldn’t be able to pass the basic reading tests for recruits, I’d say this just doesn’t hit home as well as they all hope it does.

Like much of the administration, incompetence and yesmenship is what you get when you hamfistedly shove a junior statesmen into leadership.

Shit like this is why I spend time volunteering with potential candidates nationwide.

What did anyone expect anything different?

I’ve been lucky enough to see the real deal in deposition layering testing and research for chip making. From clean-room methods stricter than bio and radiological test lab standards to seeing the wafers with a shimmer even more gorgeous than diamonds to me. It’s so far beyond

We just ain’t going to manage to make that a nation-wide mainstay. We might be able to have started to approach the technical side of things if investments and education were started in the early 90s, but our culture just isn’t up to snuff to keep it going. So much of a society’s culture bleeds into business, and damn do they have it locked down where it needs to be.

Lovely.

Cash in pocket doesn’t seem to be a very bonkers reason to me.

Wrong? Sure. Foolish? Absolutely. Short-sighted? No doubt.

But bonkers? Who wouldn’t sell their fellow man out for a few extra bucks? Hell, a nice new RV sure sounds nice, maybe a vacation to go along with it.

Not even the first time he’s talked about these things, really seems to love the idea, Space-age Technology and all that. Wonder if it’s along the same thinking all these ultra-rich autocrats have, only last month or so Putin and Xi were talking life extension.

Hope deep down, somewhere a part of them knowe they’re wasting their lives on petty nonsense.

Look I’m as paranoid as the next guy about these honorable gentlemen trying something really stupid, buuuuuut they also do have absolutely massive egos to appease.

Never discredit a solid need on their behalf to occasionally put a pair of pants on, and once again, finally, absolutely, without a doubt, fully prove their manhood.

At least they’re consistent lmao