China is “set up to hit grand slams,” longtime Chinese energy expert David Fishman told Fortune. “The U.S., at best, can get on base.”

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      Not lazy, greedy

      Capitalist greed has crippled our ability to do anything but advertise and sue

      Too expesinve to build anything because of inflation, collapsing transport supply chains, and middle and upper management bonuses and payoffs to the board members

      So we’re just gonna rot and collapse as China rockets by us in relevance and wealth

      I’d say it’s been a good run, but for most of us we NEVER saw the economic benefit of the 80s boom

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      Yeah, it’s crazy what you can do when you don’t have to pay people, and you can instantly stomp out all dissent.

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        Yeah Americans are doing that a lot right now

        On the other hand, being a construction worker in China is a career that you can buy a family house on

        I’d like to see you try that in the Land of the Fee and the Home of the Paid

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        I’m not suggesting that China is some utopia - quite the opposite in a number of respects. But what I am arguing is that privileged classes and groups in the west have captured control of the wider narrative and tipped the scales to their benefit; we’ve ended up with financialised economies focusing on rent extraction which are stagnant and unable to support true innovation.