Lightbringer
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I can't wait to see you fail more than you already have.
Your problem is if you're not talking about the COVID lockdowns then Walt is right. And you are wrong.
Alien Economics
- Thread starter Truck Fump / h1b
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I can't wait to see you fail more than you already have.
Your problem is if you're not talking about the COVID lockdowns then Walt is right. And you are wrong.
Truck Fump / h1b
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nope.
letting aliens dominate our supply chain would be very stupid.
you both failed thinking 101.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Neither one of us disagreed with that. I don't think you formulated your point very well.
Truck Fump / h1b
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Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
You're god damned right i did!
OK. Any smart business owner...given the ridiculous scenario you laid out in your OP, would know that he would be out of business within 6 months.
Truck Fump / h1b
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why?
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Because no one would be able to buy the products. The economy would grind to a halt.
Truck Fump / h1b
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Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
??? are you for real? In your OP you specified that humans lose their jobs.
Truck Fump / h1b
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so youre against free trade?
So lets restate the hypothetical:
Aliens travel across the galaxy, and offer us the technology to give us almost unlimited goods, including goods we have never thought of. Jesus' answer to this is to demand tariffs and banning of technology transfers? His first response is the tariff?
Aliens travel across the galaxy, and offer us the technology to give us almost unlimited goods, including goods we have never thought of. Jesus' answer to this is to demand tariffs and banning of technology transfers? His first response is the tariff?
It is mostly software, not electronics. And the software gains are difficult to measure. Technological revolutions do not end. The agricultural revolution is still with us. We have not given up farming, nor have we given up industry.
OK, we should take a step back and understand the progress that has been made, and will in theory be made. Before the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, humanity doubled production every 250,000 years. After the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, humanity doubled production every 900 years. After the Industrial Revolution, humanity doubled production every 15 years. That has continued up to today. If the next revolution(the so called Technological Singularity) is as big, then we should see humanity doubling production in between a week and a quarter. Even the longest of those numbers put production being 16 times higher every year.
Can Republicans block that from happening in the USA? Maybe they can for a time, but every week they block it we fall further behind.
Think about this, if we turn down the generosity of the aliens, what is to keep the rest of the world from taking it?
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
Software is a result of the electronics. Without the electronics to execute the software, the later is useless. One doesn't happen without the other.
Truck Fump / h1b
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our boycott of alien goods.
this is the classic, "if we're not evil others will be evil" argument.
it's dumb as fuck.
we should circle the wagons against the aliens.
Abundance is now "evil"? Will you be "circling your wagons" against the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, and end farming too?
Truck Fump / h1b
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Globalism is not abundance. It's just dumb.
Aliens offering their technology to give us everything for free would be abundance.
Truck Fump / h1b
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not "us". Just one person. or one company. like have your own personal nation of slaves.
you think if bezos got offered free products from aliens for free he wouldn't add a charge for profit?
He would gain no market share unless he cut prices drastically. We saw that with Walmart. It was able to use low cost Chinese goods to capture market share, but only by passing on the cost savings to the consumer.