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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
A model for the USA for the next ~10 years: a live player without moral scruples Upside is that it can dynamically respond to challenges like an overblown budget or shifting world powers. Downside is that it will fail to honor commitments and abide by rules (even those it may previously have set up itself) Eg. Throwing Europe under the bus and consolidating regional powers under its umbrella while front-running dead players as the current order collapses Short-term, it’s practical and may stave off more existential risks like insolvency or weakening military prowess Long-term, it gives up the hope of being the “city upon a hill”. Trust is earned slowly and eroded quickly The USA may remain a leader in many things — entrepreneurship, dynamism, military might, pure resource abundance, etc. But it can no longer be the indispensable nation, because it is giving up that story proactively before others can. Whether you mourn this is dependent on how you view it — a coming of age, or paradise lost
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
why would we lose "city upon the hill"? still the best place to move. where else?
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
Too expensive to keep shipping things uphill More practical to settle by the river like China and everyone else
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kripcat.eth
@kripcat.eth
City on the hill doesn’t refer to economic success it refers to moral leadership and democratic idealism.
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Vinay Vasanji
@vinayvasanji.eth
is it though? capital is global, teams are distributed, less reason to 'need' to be in the US except for the legal entity
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