Thank you for having the courage to be a sounding board for these profound ideas. We live in a world when one needs to make a choice. You are straight as an arrow, Pomp, and you lay down the facts clearly and unequivocally. It is time to take sides, and fight for the win. This is a fight for our identity, our beliefs, and ultimately for the future of humanity.
Great piece. Thanks for sharing! I wrote about the importance of the proliferation of stablecoins like USDC as a counter to Chinese digital currency here - https://frankcorva.substack.com/p/the-usdc-network
This is a highly insightful essay and one of my favorites recently. I particularly like, and agree, with the idea of the US pursuing a dual strategy as a competitive strategy with regard to China. It would be nice to think that somewhere in treasury or elsewhere in the federal government, there is such a thought stream. Personally, I doubt it, having read and heard some of the legislative discussions around regulating/limiting digital assets last summer. Thanks for writing this post - perhaps it will be read and picked up by someone with influence in our government.
Recommend reading about the Thucydides Trap and Sir John Glubb's Fate of Empires. The US cannot call itself a sovereign nation when its ruling regime deems anyone who opposes it as a domestic terrorist. It is also segregating, coercing, and demonizing those who want to make a free choice about taking an experimental drug that does not stop infection or transmission - all for a company with massive conflicts of interest (lawmakers are shareholders), criminal history ($2.3B fine paid in 2009), and no liability for vaccine injuries.
Do you really believe that China is a better model with a better track record? Or are you claiming that if you were in power you would make better decisions?
Absolutely not. The US model is far superior, but it is ceding the moral high ground with wokeness, dictatorial mandates, and corporations in bed with China. At the Alaska summit the CCP weaponized our baizuo narratives against our hapless diplomats. Yesterday Chamath used this line of thinking when making remarks about how he doesn't care about the Uighur genocide.
Thank you for having the courage to be a sounding board for these profound ideas. We live in a world when one needs to make a choice. You are straight as an arrow, Pomp, and you lay down the facts clearly and unequivocally. It is time to take sides, and fight for the win. This is a fight for our identity, our beliefs, and ultimately for the future of humanity.
Great piece. Thanks for sharing! I wrote about the importance of the proliferation of stablecoins like USDC as a counter to Chinese digital currency here - https://frankcorva.substack.com/p/the-usdc-network
Pomp will be an advisor to an American President someday, mark my words.
This is a highly insightful essay and one of my favorites recently. I particularly like, and agree, with the idea of the US pursuing a dual strategy as a competitive strategy with regard to China. It would be nice to think that somewhere in treasury or elsewhere in the federal government, there is such a thought stream. Personally, I doubt it, having read and heard some of the legislative discussions around regulating/limiting digital assets last summer. Thanks for writing this post - perhaps it will be read and picked up by someone with influence in our government.
Recommend reading about the Thucydides Trap and Sir John Glubb's Fate of Empires. The US cannot call itself a sovereign nation when its ruling regime deems anyone who opposes it as a domestic terrorist. It is also segregating, coercing, and demonizing those who want to make a free choice about taking an experimental drug that does not stop infection or transmission - all for a company with massive conflicts of interest (lawmakers are shareholders), criminal history ($2.3B fine paid in 2009), and no liability for vaccine injuries.
Do you really believe that China is a better model with a better track record? Or are you claiming that if you were in power you would make better decisions?
Absolutely not. The US model is far superior, but it is ceding the moral high ground with wokeness, dictatorial mandates, and corporations in bed with China. At the Alaska summit the CCP weaponized our baizuo narratives against our hapless diplomats. Yesterday Chamath used this line of thinking when making remarks about how he doesn't care about the Uighur genocide.