Looking Closer, Surplus Energy Economics, Economic Reality, Up Close and Nasty Where I take issue with the IMF is over the title of the latest WEO, A Rocky Recovery. For all of its undoubted expertise, the organisation sticks rigidly to an orthodoxy which insists that the economy can be explained and managed by reference to money alone.
Good to see you giving Ben Davidson some promotion. I'm an 0bserver, have been for many years. I think most of the Geopolitical BS we've got going on in this world now is just the "powers that should not be (PTSNB)" trying to keep us all distracted and busy fighting the wrong battles (cultural as well as physical) while they suck up as many resources as they can for their bunkers.
Ben often reminds people that what's coming isn't going to be "the end of the world", but it will be the end of our current civilization. Humans have survived this cyclical disaster many times in the past, to painstakingly rebuild. The current PTSNB are the descendants of those who knew what was coming the last time, and made the right preparations to survive it. They also do not want the rest of us to know enough to survive with any technology intact in the upcoming disaster cycle event. That way, they get to keep their generational advantage, and will quickly be able to enslave the few humans who somehow do manage to get lucky enough to survive the next one.
Getting the word out so "normal" people can try to migrate to safer areas and begin planning and learning how to live without electricity & other modern tech ahead of the event is the only way we have any chance of escaping yet another 12,000 year round of global enslavement by the descendants of the parasitic bankster types who currently own this iteration of "the world"...
"Can Austin replicate it?" - Not in a meaningful time frame, no. The US certainly possesses the bulk of advanced chip -designers- in the world, but TSMC in Taiwan possesses the bulk of the advanced Process Engineers. Those are the folks who turn the designs into physical chips, which is both equipment intensive -and- requires specific expertise to run the equipment and tune it for runs of certain kinds of chips.
The process equipment can be bought, and for certain, a lot of it is Made in USA. But buying the expertise in day to day running of that equipment on varied production lines will be a long time happening, as it does in any complex endeavor. Even if some of that expertise could be hired and relocated to the US, there are language barriers, culture barriers, and outright scale (as in needing to hire quite a few experienced people who know how to work specific parts of the line).
Just buying the equipment and setting it up in a building does not make a functioning, efficient process line. If getting to "functioning and efficient" takes a few years, imagine the impact to high tech product production, such as smart phones, which depends on huge scale.
I don't see this happening easily or quickly. At all.
Good to see you giving Ben Davidson some promotion. I'm an 0bserver, have been for many years. I think most of the Geopolitical BS we've got going on in this world now is just the "powers that should not be (PTSNB)" trying to keep us all distracted and busy fighting the wrong battles (cultural as well as physical) while they suck up as many resources as they can for their bunkers.
Ben often reminds people that what's coming isn't going to be "the end of the world", but it will be the end of our current civilization. Humans have survived this cyclical disaster many times in the past, to painstakingly rebuild. The current PTSNB are the descendants of those who knew what was coming the last time, and made the right preparations to survive it. They also do not want the rest of us to know enough to survive with any technology intact in the upcoming disaster cycle event. That way, they get to keep their generational advantage, and will quickly be able to enslave the few humans who somehow do manage to get lucky enough to survive the next one.
Getting the word out so "normal" people can try to migrate to safer areas and begin planning and learning how to live without electricity & other modern tech ahead of the event is the only way we have any chance of escaping yet another 12,000 year round of global enslavement by the descendants of the parasitic bankster types who currently own this iteration of "the world"...
"Can Austin replicate it?" - Not in a meaningful time frame, no. The US certainly possesses the bulk of advanced chip -designers- in the world, but TSMC in Taiwan possesses the bulk of the advanced Process Engineers. Those are the folks who turn the designs into physical chips, which is both equipment intensive -and- requires specific expertise to run the equipment and tune it for runs of certain kinds of chips.
The process equipment can be bought, and for certain, a lot of it is Made in USA. But buying the expertise in day to day running of that equipment on varied production lines will be a long time happening, as it does in any complex endeavor. Even if some of that expertise could be hired and relocated to the US, there are language barriers, culture barriers, and outright scale (as in needing to hire quite a few experienced people who know how to work specific parts of the line).
Just buying the equipment and setting it up in a building does not make a functioning, efficient process line. If getting to "functioning and efficient" takes a few years, imagine the impact to high tech product production, such as smart phones, which depends on huge scale.
I don't see this happening easily or quickly. At all.