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>>tedsan+(OP)
After they build the Multivac or Deep Thought, or whatever it is they’re trying to do, then what happens? It makes all the stockholders a lot of money?

>>moffer+i4
The way I think about this project, along with all of Trump's plans, is that he wants to maximize the US's economic output to ensure we are competitive with China in the future.

Yes, it would make money for stockholders. But it's much more than that: it's an empire-scale psychological game for leverage in the future.

>>dekhn+I6
> he wants to maximize the US's economic output to ensure we are competitive with China in the future.

LOL

Under Trump policies, China will win "in the future" on energy and protein production alone.

Once we've speedrunned our petro supply and exhausted our agricultural inputs with unfathomably inefficient protein production, China can sit back and watch us crumble under our own starvation.

No conflict necessary under these policies, just patience! They're playing the game on a scale of centuries, we can't even stay focused on a single problem or opportunity for a few weeks.

>>llamai+Te
> They're playing the game on a scale of centuries

What's going to be left of their population in a single century?

>>seando+rn
Unfortunately one of those things that authoritarianism has a lot more methods to solve than other systems, which really underscores the importance of beating them in the long term.

>>llamai+Po
Their current very advanced method, is to send village elders to couples and single guys and berate them on why they are not having sex or having kids (hint: no jobs and no money)

>>vaccin+7s
I guess we can just bet on them never hearing about and investing massive amounts of time and money into artificial wombs.

Instead of figuring that out, they'll just watch their civilization crumble.

Btw: they're already investing heavily in artificial wombs and affiliated technologies.