What does that even mean, aside from some esoteric numbers on graphs and metrics that put people to sleep?
Culturally, the Chinese will never over take the US - it will be a cold day in hell when US or EU kids wake up and think a Chinese app is the next big thing.
When they "discover" that they cannot hire/lure 2000 tech workers in/to Indiana, they will make the claim the indeed there is a tech labor shortage in the US.
As far as the Chinese go, they are simply reacting to their own business practices - trying to prevent other nations from doing what they did: steal their technology. This is doomed to failure. Of course they CAN produce great original technology... but DO they? Not really. That is way to expensive.
As to your other point: All great nations fall. But this one won't in your life time.
Besides the modern definition of "fall" isn't what it used to be: some analytics saying an obscure growth metric trajectory is less than another nations, that sort of thing.
Wars in our backyard? We have by far the greatest military on Earth. However our population is so heavily armed that it would crush that military. So assuming you get past the Army, you still have to deal with us. You want to come over here and start sniping, take your best shot... because you won't get many.
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What does that even mean, aside from some esoteric numbers on graphs and metrics that put people to sleep?
Culturally, the Chinese will never over take the US - it will be a cold day in hell when US or EU kids wake up and think a Chinese app is the next big thing.
Base the whole thing on Wifi, and a very few strategic tunneled internet hops?
When I was a kid the porch spot lights on my mothers house in rural Western MD would attract an insane swarm of hundreds of bugs on a summer night.
These days you get about a dozen or so bugs flying around them.
If it is such a shithole then why are they trying to get in?
When they "discover" that they cannot hire/lure 2000 tech workers in/to Indiana, they will make the claim the indeed there is a tech labor shortage in the US.
This notion was firmly implanted by education health classes, media, and medical professionals for decades.
Waring blenders (the silver one you see in bars) work better and last longer - and are about 1/3 the price.
I have had both.
Used to sell a brain controlled mouse, IIRC.
Who do you think was flocking to Woodstock? Boomers.
The Baby Boomers (aka the hippies) fucked things up. Generation X and Millennials are only now beginning to see that mess cleaned up.
Your parents were working for companies run by the greatest generation.
Gen X'ers worked for companies run by your parents. See the connection?
Now that Gen X is running the show, what is left seems to be more stable.
I suspect this is the driving factor.
If there really is a shortage, paying a premium to fill those gaps at the top will not be a problem.
And those nations would be...?
Indeed it will. The fix is truly simple.
The problem is that it is a real fix, with no way to game it, which is why such would be fought tooth and nail.
I honestly don't think this is needed.
I would agree with that assessment of great, however using that metric, no nation has ever been great.
So now we fall back to "richest and most powerful."
Raise the minimum salary to $100,000 per year, have it automatically increase by 1.5% per year. Done.
1979. I was tickled pink!
I mean, as long as we are all being dicks, why not have the bigger dick?
As far as the Chinese go, they are simply reacting to their own business practices - trying to prevent other nations from doing what they did: steal their technology.
This is doomed to failure. Of course they CAN produce great original technology... but DO they? Not really. That is way to expensive.
As to your other point: All great nations fall. But this one won't in your life time.
Besides the modern definition of "fall" isn't what it used to be: some analytics saying an obscure growth metric trajectory is less than another nations, that sort of thing.
Wars in our backyard? We have by far the greatest military on Earth. However our population is so heavily armed that it would crush that military. So assuming you get past the Army, you still have to deal with us. You want to come over here and start sniping, take your best shot... because you won't get many.
Fuck that guy and that job.
Grow a fucking spine.
After all, how will the aliens find it?
As a general rule: I don't open stuff from email, regardless of who sent it.