Except that there is zero evidence for any sort of instability in the present. When there are actual tangible instabilities at play, then it's easy to see that. For example, everybody can see social and political tensions across the west today.

The reality is that China is outcompeting the west across the board technologically. This shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. China has a bigger population, better education system, and the state actively guides the industry towards productive purposes.

To sum up, you're just coping here.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dude, calm down and read what I wrote again.
I explicitly went out of my way to say how none of what I was writing was a reflection of the realities in China, but rather an explanation about why a joke about Schrodinger doesn't apply.

I didn't say that China had an unstable economy, I said that even if it had an unstable economy it could still outcompete the USA. How it's not a mutually exclusive condition, like the cat being both alive and dead.

That wasn't a fair way to characterize me or what I said, and it's pretty upsetting that you made such a judgement about me, seemingly without reading what I wrote 🙁

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

lol well sorry about mischaractarization there. That said, my original point was that you absolutely do need a stable economy to do large scale development. You might be able to get short term gains with an unstable economy, but doing things like building mass rail infrastructure or developing chips domestically requires stability. What you're saying is that you can have a Potemkin village, but it's clear that it's not the case with China hence the meme makes perfect sense.