Lemonade stands do not create silicon, or the equivalent of inventing the lemon. The vendor is irrelevant to the product itself.
You’d still have tech up until around 1996 CMOS technology. That is when things got stupid expensive beyond what bureaucratic nonsense would invest in. Neither the Soviets or Chinese were capable of recognising the implications of silicon and competing. It made the Soviet Union obsolete from an outdated military driven economy. Watch the computer history museum’s interviews of the people that were involved at the top of semiconductors and you will clearly see how this is what won the cold war and why.
William Shockley was the principal person that first understood how, for the first time in human history, a commercial endeavor would have exponential growth potential so strong that no military could afford to fund it by itself.
That era is over now BTW. We are less than 10 years out from the final fab node, and the real world hardware cycle is actually 10 years. Perhaps it is a coincidence, but that is likely the reason politics are shifting to a posture similar to the era of William Shockley, and the global trade required to support that exponential growth is no longer as relevant.
Authoritarian and bureaucratic systems never manage to lead in such unprecedented endeavors. At best, all they do is follow.
Capitalism is the lesser (but still quite) evil system. The only thing that actually matters is meritocracy. Bureaucracy lacks the meritocratic impetus to filter and motivate real leaders free from cronyism. In the present world, places like China have far better capitalism for the average person that cares about lemonade stands. But I don’t want to live in 1996, or 1896, or 1696 with people that plow with oxen and 15 kids running a lemonade stand, like would be the case without evil capitalism. The problem in the present is the lack of real capitalism. People do not take responsibility for their purchase vote, and governments are corrupted by an oligarchy.
When a real AGI exists and is capable of persistence and omnipresence, then we have solved the succession crisis to finally have a benevolent altruistic system capable of wielding trust. Humans are incapable of wielding trust in politics. The occasional ultra rare exception of incorruptible leadership that is altruistic, benevolent, and self deprecating is always followed by a succession crisis.
Trust is surrender of democracy to fascists and authoritarians. Skepticism, free information, and the right to error with full nonviolent autonomy are the antitheses of anyone peddling the fallacy of trust.
Lemonade stands do not create silicon, or the equivalent of inventing the lemon. The vendor is irrelevant to the product itself.
You’d still have tech up until around 1996 CMOS technology. That is when things got stupid expensive beyond what bureaucratic nonsense would invest in. Neither the Soviets or Chinese were capable of recognising the implications of silicon and competing. It made the Soviet Union obsolete from an outdated military driven economy. Watch the computer history museum’s interviews of the people that were involved at the top of semiconductors and you will clearly see how this is what won the cold war and why.
William Shockley was the principal person that first understood how, for the first time in human history, a commercial endeavor would have exponential growth potential so strong that no military could afford to fund it by itself.
That era is over now BTW. We are less than 10 years out from the final fab node, and the real world hardware cycle is actually 10 years. Perhaps it is a coincidence, but that is likely the reason politics are shifting to a posture similar to the era of William Shockley, and the global trade required to support that exponential growth is no longer as relevant.
Authoritarian and bureaucratic systems never manage to lead in such unprecedented endeavors. At best, all they do is follow.
Capitalism is the lesser (but still quite) evil system. The only thing that actually matters is meritocracy. Bureaucracy lacks the meritocratic impetus to filter and motivate real leaders free from cronyism. In the present world, places like China have far better capitalism for the average person that cares about lemonade stands. But I don’t want to live in 1996, or 1896, or 1696 with people that plow with oxen and 15 kids running a lemonade stand, like would be the case without evil capitalism. The problem in the present is the lack of real capitalism. People do not take responsibility for their purchase vote, and governments are corrupted by an oligarchy.
When a real AGI exists and is capable of persistence and omnipresence, then we have solved the succession crisis to finally have a benevolent altruistic system capable of wielding trust. Humans are incapable of wielding trust in politics. The occasional ultra rare exception of incorruptible leadership that is altruistic, benevolent, and self deprecating is always followed by a succession crisis.
Trust is surrender of democracy to fascists and authoritarians. Skepticism, free information, and the right to error with full nonviolent autonomy are the antitheses of anyone peddling the fallacy of trust.
Humans did invent lemons to enjoy them, though. It was a very large and organized undertaking which led to commercial success for Egypt.
k big lemon
and during a time … before capitalism. ;)
TBH Egypt was everything Communists claim about Capitalism. Idk why you would think otherwise.