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Wait. I just realized something. One of the significant reasons humans are such amazing creatures compared to the other species is our generational knowledge we can pass down. But we have a saturation point. We need consciousness information downloading. Not immortality. But a way to download Wikipedia to our brains. That's the next step.
The solution to that historically has been urbanization, which allowed people to become specialists in a chosen field. They get to absorb all the knowledge in a specific field of expertise, and then a select few are smart enough to push it further.
Unfortunately we haven't really managed to apply this to politics yet, because those who are specialists in getting elected aren't necessarily specialists in governing either. Nor are they likely good at governing everything, maybe just a specific part. But picking who is suitable enough is not done by specialists but by the general public, which is both democracy's strength and weakness.
I can agree with that. But something has gotta give? I think we're in the right direction, we have some significant spedbumps along the way is all
Agreed. It's so tiring actually navigating Wikipedia. I just want a megacorp to select the best bits and inject them directly into my brain when they see fit!
But make sure they take out anything that would negatively affect their company!
I don't think it will work. Some knowledge you just can't acquire without lived experiences.
Sure. But you don't need lived experiences to have full knowledge of economic histories or previous laws that have failed and should not be brought back. "Lived experiences" is just another bandwidth problem for most.
Yeah but THEY didn't have the TECHNOLOGY we do to be able to RAMP UP our DOMESTIC PRODUCTION! So it's a GOOD THING that President Elon Musk and First Lady Donald Trump HAVENT been Cutting US Investing and Production!
The last tariff I personally remember was the 1983 motorcycle tariff signed by Reagan. The Yamaha Virago was seen as such a threat to Harley-Davidson that they pushed for and got a tariff imposed on imported motorcycles over 700ccs engine displacement. Yamaha's answer was to reduce the engine displacement from 750 to 699cc. The 250cc Virago is still in production today, though they install a straighter handlebar on it and call it a "V-Star 250."
I feel like those 80s motorcycle tariffs are why the US motorcycle industry is so uncompetitive today. In the 80s, HD got fat my making bikes that wouldn't be viable anywhere else in the world. HD didn't have to compete because tariffs guaranteed their market. Meanwhile Honda, Yamaha,. Kawasaki, Suzuki were developing a lean, lightweight model, we saw the convergent evolution of the Universal Japanese Motorcycle and lean production processes. It was specifically those tariffs that made the big 4 what they are today - basically unstoppable.
Targeted tariffs are regularly used for specific reasons. We just don’t normally go all AoE with tariffs.
They don't care what it does to people, it makes some rich people richer like the alcohol prohibition
The definition of stupidity is to try things that failed in the past again in the hope to get a better result.
Insanity actually
But this one is different... ... ... I just can't remember how... but I know they said this one is different, so it must be... right?...
Edit: autocorrect
Glorious leader is a billionaire. We will be fine. He won’t even take a paycheck!!
He's so generous and kind. A modern day Hercules you could say.
This one is going to work /s