To the U.S. Political Left: Your Grievances are Rooted in Political Corruption. It's Time for You to Stop Blaming Capitalism for Everything. You Look Like an Imbecile and an Ideologue.
As a fellow Berkeley grad, I hear ya with the frustration over the prevalence of socialist/communist ideology being touted on campus. And my parents grew up under Mao in China and came to the US precisely to get away from it all! It precisely fails to work because not only is it counter to human nature like you've alluded to but it also requires a powerful and centralized authoritarian government to implement. (Wait, but that isn't communism and you say real communism is Anarcho-Communism or Libertarian Socialism? Yep, those really sounds great on paper until you realize that one can easily cheat the system and game the system to gain more or contribute less and there's no state to enforce it. At least under Mao, the state could enforce things but ultimately, the extreme centralized control required for communism didn't leave room for checks and balances to mitigate corruption which led to its downfall, at least from my understanding but I digress.)
I'm more pretty open to exploring different forms of capitalism whether it's laissez-faire or something like the Nordic model but I just cannot see how any economy without (relatively) free markets as a foundation could ever work since there's always greed.. and capitalism, by design, exploits people's greed to get them to deliver what others want which has seemed to work best out of all systems of allocating scarce resources tried throughout history.
Yep. Sounds like you got the Berkeley education, which when you put aside the constant psychological terrorism of angry communist/socialist/etc protests and riots, was still an incredibly valuable and top tier education program. What did you study at Berkeley?
If China takes over Taiwan they won't be able to produce high quality chips. Semiconductors aren't like oil, it requires human capital. The Taiwanese will blow up the fabrication plants if they realise China is taking over. All the machinery for high end chip fabrication is primarily made in the Netherlands so China won't be able to rebuild the factories. The reason America should defend Taiwan is not to protect the chip fabrication, it's to uphold the idea of national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Yes, and if the Taiwanese destroy TSMC as is expected, that would still result in China having a temporary monopoly over semiconductor manufacturing, as it will take years for Intel and (at a loss for whom is the other U.S. company that was granted the funds to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant in the U.S. via the CHIPs Act) to fulfill building our own semiconductor manufacturing facilities locally within the U.S. and the broader West. The sovereignty and territory issues are complicated but I respect Taiwan’s right to self-determination in this manner. With that being said, preventing the CCP from gaining a monopoly over semiconductor manufacturing is absolutely imperative to protecting American and Western values globally, such as democracy, free speech, freedom of religion, free market capitalism, and so on. So, yeah, many reasons to care about and protect Taiwan AND TSMC.
China only manufacturers trailing edge chips. There is no shortage of countries that are allied with the west that are producing trailing edge chips. China won't even have a temporary monopoly on chips even if they invaded Japan, Taiwan and Korea. If they manage to invade Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand you might start to see some problems.
As a fellow Berkeley grad, I hear ya with the frustration over the prevalence of socialist/communist ideology being touted on campus. And my parents grew up under Mao in China and came to the US precisely to get away from it all! It precisely fails to work because not only is it counter to human nature like you've alluded to but it also requires a powerful and centralized authoritarian government to implement. (Wait, but that isn't communism and you say real communism is Anarcho-Communism or Libertarian Socialism? Yep, those really sounds great on paper until you realize that one can easily cheat the system and game the system to gain more or contribute less and there's no state to enforce it. At least under Mao, the state could enforce things but ultimately, the extreme centralized control required for communism didn't leave room for checks and balances to mitigate corruption which led to its downfall, at least from my understanding but I digress.)
I'm more pretty open to exploring different forms of capitalism whether it's laissez-faire or something like the Nordic model but I just cannot see how any economy without (relatively) free markets as a foundation could ever work since there's always greed.. and capitalism, by design, exploits people's greed to get them to deliver what others want which has seemed to work best out of all systems of allocating scarce resources tried throughout history.
Yep. Sounds like you got the Berkeley education, which when you put aside the constant psychological terrorism of angry communist/socialist/etc protests and riots, was still an incredibly valuable and top tier education program. What did you study at Berkeley?
If China takes over Taiwan they won't be able to produce high quality chips. Semiconductors aren't like oil, it requires human capital. The Taiwanese will blow up the fabrication plants if they realise China is taking over. All the machinery for high end chip fabrication is primarily made in the Netherlands so China won't be able to rebuild the factories. The reason America should defend Taiwan is not to protect the chip fabrication, it's to uphold the idea of national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Yes, and if the Taiwanese destroy TSMC as is expected, that would still result in China having a temporary monopoly over semiconductor manufacturing, as it will take years for Intel and (at a loss for whom is the other U.S. company that was granted the funds to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant in the U.S. via the CHIPs Act) to fulfill building our own semiconductor manufacturing facilities locally within the U.S. and the broader West. The sovereignty and territory issues are complicated but I respect Taiwan’s right to self-determination in this manner. With that being said, preventing the CCP from gaining a monopoly over semiconductor manufacturing is absolutely imperative to protecting American and Western values globally, such as democracy, free speech, freedom of religion, free market capitalism, and so on. So, yeah, many reasons to care about and protect Taiwan AND TSMC.
China only manufacturers trailing edge chips. There is no shortage of countries that are allied with the west that are producing trailing edge chips. China won't even have a temporary monopoly on chips even if they invaded Japan, Taiwan and Korea. If they manage to invade Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand you might start to see some problems.
wow... Imma need a moment to catch my breath from the lucid intensity of that
I already knew everything you wrote about but reading your writing moved the needle on its level of clarity and my level of engagement with the issue
thank you
So happy you enjoyed it <3