cirosantilli · November 20, 2024 19:20
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 @LitNomad OK, when you decide to cash out on social good, if you want to do something in education let me know.

 About Xi:

 1) handsome AF
 2) like any other politician, he's a product of times and it is impossible to analyze the person itself, as for the times some possibly obvious bullets,
 3) one interesting theory is that dictatorships have greater variability: https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/dictatorship-variability i.e. when they are doing well then can do better than a democracy would, when they are doing bad, they go back to the middle ages like cultural revolution. I hear you like this approach to things.
 4) Xi is arguably doing well now. E.g. Brazil where I'm born has similar GDP/capita but has 0 deep tech and not doing anthing about it. The dictatorship however is able to throw large percentages of its population under the bus and focus the income on reducing Western tech gap
 5) China and BRICS are a product of Japanese and Western Imperialism. BRICS + Korea is keeping Russia Ukraine War afloat and cashing out on the situation, and in part because rich West has exploited them and they need alternatives. USD is overvalued now.
 6) as soon as economy starts to falter, people won't want to be oppressed anymore and Xi will enter Putin-mode, increase oppression even more and create some wars to distract people, i.e. the downturn of dictatorships

 Is your family Chinese?
	@LitNomad OK, when you decide to cash out on social good, if you want to do something in education let me know.

	About Xi:

	1) handsome AF
	2) like any other politician, he's a product of times and it is impossible to analyze the person itself, as for the times some possibly obvious bullets,
	3) one interesting theory is that dictatorships have greater variability: https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/dictatorship-variability i.e. when they are doing well then can do better than a democracy would, when they are doing bad, they go back to the middle ages like cultural revolution. I hear you like this approach to things.
	4) Xi is arguably doing well now. E.g. Brazil where I'm born has similar GDP/capita but has 0 deep tech and not doing anthing about it. The dictatorship however is able to throw large percentages of its population under the bus and focus the income on reducing Western tech gap
	5) China and BRICS are a product of Japanese and Western Imperialism. BRICS + Korea is keeping Russia Ukraine War afloat and cashing out on the situation, and in part because rich West has exploited them and they need alternatives. USD is overvalued now.
	6) as soon as economy starts to falter, people won't want to be oppressed anymore and Xi will enter Putin-mode, increase oppression even more and create some wars to distract people, i.e. the downturn of dictatorships

	Is your family Chinese?