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Wasn't "The Prince" something of a "Hard Men Making Hard Decisions While Hard" parody of the popular "heir help book" genre? Bunch of stuff he found actively detestable and more than a few things that were easily observed as dysfunctional even then? Because he was a rather intense...

The reasoning is that owning some land entails a certain bare minimum of competence that is not assured of impoverished tenants. Additionally, due to the frontier lifestyle still being common, the vast majority of landowning households were small farms, meaning that voting power rested primarily...

Not to anywhere near the extent as the obscene money-pit of the treadmill to get to the "big fancy ones", and you don't need the R&D budget since you're just rebuilding what's already invented nor the continuous stream of retoolings for the latest iterative improvements because you're...

I do not know the details (the "10 years behind" was admittedly an ass-pull, but we haven't had any structural changes for quite a few hardware generations), I just know quite certainly we have some amount that cannot be "high level" between my older brother working at one such place and the...

Not quite, it's specifically high-end chips that are obnoxiously sensitive this way. We actually have most of the "low-level" consumer electronics chip supply chain available between Canada, the continental US, and Mexico, but are something like a solid decade behind for "high level" smartphone...

Think he means "China blunders into extra fronts because all its neighbors hate it" with India being an ally in the much-delayed conclusion to the Chinese Civil War. Of course, that means there's another nuclear power involved with much more obvious stakes, who has to hedge their bets against...

Well, you don't need to burn the books, just eject them from the university library and curricula so they stop being in the "general academic soup". Like Florida banning graphic sexual education books, "alphabet people" or otherwise, specifically from schools rather than from sale as a whole. A...

No, that's overwhelmingly on opening the Chinese market, the infrastructure advantages made offshoring on a major scale impractical to Quarterly Gains Worshippers until CCP kleptocrats figured out they could make gargantuan amounts footing the bill for factories, ports, roads, and coal plants to...

Outbreak of piracy leading to the need for a drastic increase in Navy personnel to crew convoys. There's only so many people who will volunteer themselves a worse livelyhood for everyone else's bottom line, no matter how obvious it is, so long as it stays in the abstraction of the cost of goods...