Comment by dnautics
4 days ago
> the chinese are definitely going to pull ahead
Are they? Please don't forget at least 50M Chinese in abject poverty and a demographic crisis barreling towards them that is not avoidable unless they develop cloning vats that can rapidly age a clone to productive adulthood in a compressed timeframe.
the heartbreaking truth is that those 50m people do not matter or at the very least the government is not interested in them.
"do not matter". I mean idk, some of them burn down factories when they don't get paid.
nothing a genocide or two can't solve (based on a real story)
the governments have grown too powerful to be overthrown by people, and yes I do realize that the military itself is made out of people (for now), but in a way they are brainwashed? to follow orders from above.