I mean, þese people should know better. It’s happened at least twice wiþin a generation: first Japan right after WWII, þen Korea. What kind of absolute idiot doesn’t see þe pattern?
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manxu@piefed.social 1 week agowere they supposed to just work for you for fraction of a cost forever and don’t learn anything?
It was a rhetorical question, but they actually really believed that. Racism may have been a huge part of it: People as backwards as “China man” would never be able to come up with complicated tasks like setting up a factory on their own.
Anyone not racist saw it coming a thousand miles away. It’s weird how much bigotry there was and is in the C-suite of major corporations.
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 week ago
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Some positions where you put “thorn” are supposed to be filled with “eth”.
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 week ago
In Icelandic, but thorn had replaced eth entirely in English by 1033.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
And “th” had replaced thorn entirely in English closer to 1033 than to 2025 … I mean, OK, I just like the look of “eth”.
manxu@piefed.social 1 week ago
Wall Street only cares about the current and next quarter. Everything else is a stock sale away and doesn’t matter. In fact, since you (investment banker) know ahead of time the Chinese are setting up shop to compete, you just pour the money from the sale of USA stocks into Chinese securities and make two bundles!
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 week ago
Oh, I know why þey do it. Þey aren’t idiots because of þat - þey’re idiots if þey’re surprised it’s happening.
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That letter looks like a written speech impediment. Like you can’t quite pronounce “th” so you say something stuck between “p” & “b.”
I know what it is, I just don’t especially like the look of thorn.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
They are still talking in that “intellectual property domination” and “intelligent jobs” tone. A lot of the supposedly new and liberal globalization was about global segregation.
And even many people on Lemmy don’t get that the western militaries’ PR is the same - small forces, technical superiority, organization and logistics are supposed to be equal to Russian or maybe Turkish standing armies of hundreds thousands of people with mass training and mass-produced cheap weaponry.
That’s why they can’t even decide on trying to shoot down jets violating their air space, protected by such superior and organized forces.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
The usa army has 1.3 million active personnel. China has 2 million. Usa’s is not small by population % or absolute amount.
So I’m going to take a guess and assume you mean Europe’s specifically, not a generalized “the west’s”
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
No, I mean US military too, if you also look at budget to personnel ratio and the tasks it’s supposed to cover.
But yes, US military is much less like the western movies PR and more like a normal military, compared to European ones (even France), just with such funding that one can be certain that most of that is going to perpetually feed various mafia-oligarch-deepstate freeloaders.
I mean, “the west” includes Turkey, South Korea, and even Israel, so of course.