"If we are correct, the US State Department and the Pentagon are leveraging their vast global network of indirect financial resources to bolster a realm of US geopolitical power long under Chinese threat." - Doomberg

*the task of making something good — of arriving at a solution that is obvious — is often met with a kind of ambivalence, like “Nice work…I guess? Seems obvious tbh.” That’s the work of design: to make something so good, it’s obvious. But there’s often little acclaim for the obvious because, well, it’s so obvious (in hindsight).* https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/make-it-work-make-it-good/

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"We're in a transitionary period where the revolting peasants have a first-mover advantage, so for now it gives the little guy a leg up, but in the long run this is a radically unequal system of wealth distribution heavily biased in favor of "the wealthy" (high earners). The benefit to future peasants is that they get to live in system that doesn't punish success, where decisions are incentivized by what the masses actually buy on the market, not what they say they want or think would be more fair based on their feelings. So the Gini coefficient and other such Keynesian measures of "inequality" grow to absurd levels, but everyone's quality of life improves." https://stacker.news/items/1550587/r/halalmoney?commentId=1550651