As humans make machines that conquer distances, humans across great distance interact more frequently.
Rail, steamboats, and airplanes increase interactions.
Cheap oil supercharged them.
Diseases spread faster. 🧵
Rail, steamboats, and airplanes increase interactions.
Cheap oil supercharged them.
Diseases spread faster. 🧵
Immune system adaptivity is the primarily hard limit of infrastructure spending
The paradox is this:
Hyper connectivity lowers labor cost to spur IMF loans, but it also drives up the pandemic risk which drives up loan default chances.
Enter Big Pharma
The paradox is this:
Hyper connectivity lowers labor cost to spur IMF loans, but it also drives up the pandemic risk which drives up loan default chances.
Enter Big Pharma
Big Pharma promises to manage that default risk with public health and disease research, all in service of allowing the hyper connected world to expand itself into unmodernized markets.
That's the real source of their power. They alone determine the speed of capital returns
That's the real source of their power. They alone determine the speed of capital returns
Modernizing Africa has one major downside only few speak of in hushed whispers: the thousands of viral mutations that await us in the Green Hell can significantly overwhelm the hyper connected world.
Viruses you cannot even model, you cannot even think of, hitting the entire globe at rate that is proportional to the speed of turning Green Hell into parking lots and strip malls.
All global populations hit at the same time for each virus. Back to back to back to back.
All global populations hit at the same time for each virus. Back to back to back to back.
This is the true inflection point of the costs and benefits of globalism.
This is globalism plateau moment.
A new paradigm is needed.
One where pandemic risk is absolutely minimized while modernization is maximized.
Enter Robotic Nationalism.
This is globalism plateau moment.
A new paradigm is needed.
One where pandemic risk is absolutely minimized while modernization is maximized.
Enter Robotic Nationalism.
Instead of racing the cost of human capital to the bottom via infinity migrants and having low oil prices super charge the mutation and spread of bird flu, the humans stay put and the robots come to them.
This forces Big Tech to eat Big Pharma's lunch
And since Big Pharma has centuries of good will from curing so many people, that lunch eating is significant enough to explain the complete unraveling of the West's political order.
The holy war to end all holy wars
And since Big Pharma has centuries of good will from curing so many people, that lunch eating is significant enough to explain the complete unraveling of the West's political order.
The holy war to end all holy wars
Nearly all chaos we are experiencing today comes from this conflict
The more Big Tech grows, the closer it gets to achieving the ability to replace Big Pharma's bottleneck on IMF growth
And they have been fighting like hell to keep their king maker status
And this will continue for decades
The more Big Tech grows, the closer it gets to achieving the ability to replace Big Pharma's bottleneck on IMF growth
And they have been fighting like hell to keep their king maker status
And this will continue for decades
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