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You're not going to beat the Americans at their own game. It's a society that does not respect the rule of law, does not believe in true market competition and does not believe in democracy.
If you think I am acting out, consider the following point: recently Meta was found to have directly (in a premeditated manner) promoted scams/frauds that netted them $16B in commission in a single year. We all know that nothing will be done about this even under a hypothetical centre-right US government.
How do we know that? Well was anything done about Microsoft's anti-competitive behaviour in the 90s?
But for me, the real irony is the polemics about competition and "free market". In a real free market, MS, Meta, Google would not have hundreds of billions of dollar to burn because competition would drive profit margins to a state of approaching zero. Zuck would not be able to burn $45 B on his weird and disgusting Metaverse Mii autosexuality fetish.
Not a fan of the leadership of China, but I genuinely do believe that one area that we can learn from them is how to deal with oligarchs.
How do we deal with oligarchs including Xi?
Xi is not an oligarch, to my knowledge, he has always worked in the CCP.
I thought he was a rich ruler interested in extending his lifespan
Sure, but he is not an oligarch.
How so? I thought the definition is member of a group of wealthy individuals wielding sovereign power. Which he seems to meet fine, unless he's the only wealthy individual in the ccp
This doesn't seem right. Russian oligarchs do not wield sovereign power, yet they are still oligarchs.
They wield power, but the term sovereign doesn't seem appropriate.