You get a new generation of consumer tech almost every 2-3 years.

A new generation of Military tech takes about 30 years now.

We can already see that most US military tech orgs are filled with seat warmers related to politicians by this point in time.

The US military keeps improving there is no doubt about that, but the US consumer wing is improving at a far more rapid pace.

A large part of this is mega corporations that grow at a faster rate than military budgets ever could hope to.

The only reason we think US military tech is far more advanced is because there is a military technology monopoly right now. I bet any trillion dollar company could come in and eat their lunch if they were so inclined.

If mega corporations would freely participate in military weapons development the US military would likely be obsolete in 20 years time.

The Future of modern warfare will be letting mega corporations develop military tech for major world governments.

I bet apple could build a better tank than the A1 abrams within 10 years if it started now.

Lockheed Martin today is only worth 100 billion USD.

There should be a new weapons manufacturing company that should come out to replace Lockheed Martin like what Elon Musk did with SpaceX to all the other space companies.

If the US would legalize the purchase of tanks and fighter jets for the US public, it would open up multiple companies to race to build ever better products for the market.

Lockheed Martin was founded in 1995.

Boeing is even older. An ancient dinosaur that needs replacing with a more modernized competitor.

Currently the world is being run by companies that were all founded in the 1990's.

Hopefully soon these dinosaurs will be replaced by companies that were founded in the 2000's and the 2010's.

Today, of the top 10 companies from the year 2000, only 1 is still in the top 10, that is microsoft.

Of the top 10 from the 2010's, only 4 still remain.

By the 2030's, it will be fun to see only 1 remain once again, supreme over all the others.

I am betting on microsoft remaining the world's most valued company in the world by 2030.

Which company are you nerds betting on being the greatest in 2030?

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My favorite megacorporation is Microsoft.

It is my favorite corporation because it is the number one most valued company in the world and they have made more than 200+ acquisitions of other smaller companies which I find to be a very impressive and respectable number.

In 2023 they successfully purchased Activision Blizzard, making them a permanent major player in the video game industry.

Microsoft is also expected to take part in more multi - billion dollar acquisitions in the years ahead, with a strong possibility of at least buying up Warner Bros., take two, or some other major gaming company.

I like how Microsoft knows that it is a multi trillion company and is willing to use that money to buy up other major companies that are guaranteed money makers.

While I am still not sure what product exactly Microsoft itself makes these days, I still think those guys are cool.

My personal favorite company is SpaceX but I feel like it is too small to be considered a mega corporation right now.

What is yours and why?

Glory to the American empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_Colonization_Program

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Space_for_Earth/Energy/Helium-3_mining_on_the_lunar_surface

Generally all great empires are a continuation of previous empires.

The Greek empire continued in the form of the Roman empire, the roman empire broke apart with one part taken over by various European tribes and the other continuing as the Byzantine empire.

The European tribes managed to grow enough as to go to the US and mix their genetics together there and form the next greatest empire in the world.

Now, the US being the greatest current empire in the world, the next great empire will be an obvious continuation of the US empire.

The US does not intend to take over any further land on Earth, so where does it go? To the moon of course.

It's free real estate, and only the US has the technology to access it and keep it.

The total area of the moon is 38 million square kilometers. Which is surprisingly a little smaller than the total land area of Asia.

The US is expected to set up a moon base before 2030.

China is the only country with plans to set up a moon base by 2035.

The new age of exploration is the race to colonize the moon.

If the US successfully colonizes the moon, and China fails to do so, and the US successfully manages to mine the moon, that would secure prosperity for their empire for generations to come.

The US is obviously going to successfully do it.

China is less likely to pull it off, as they are trying to set up a moon base in collaboration with Russia, which clearly does not have the competency to be able to pull off a project this big in scope and ambition.

In conclusion:

The US is going to take over the moon within this century.

Glory to the US.

The next stage of white flight is upon us.

The first major player on the world stage is the US.

The second major player on the world stage today is China.

The third major player on the world stage are Multi National Corporations.

When you have three Corporations each of them with a market cap larger than 3 trillion USD, you can no longer say that they don't have influence equivalent to developed nation states.

Of the top 10 Corporations in the world by market cap, 8 are from the US.

The remaining two are TMSC and Saudi Aramco.

TMSC continues to grow, meanwhile Saudi Aramco is in continual decline.

In the very near future we can expect 10 out of the top 10 largest companies in the world to be American.

Microsoft has grown 27% in the past one year.

Apple has grown 9%

Nvidia has grown 213%

Alphabet has grown 29%

Amazon has grown 46%

Saudi Aramco has declined 13%

Meta has grown 82%

Berkshire Hathaway has grown 23%

TMSC has grown 62%

Eli Lilly has grown 88%.

The economic growth of corporations is so much more extreme in comparison to the growth of nation states that it becomes impossible to ignore the fact that mega corporations are the future of human economic growth, and the leader in mega corporations is the US.

The primary advantage that megacorporations give to the US is that the more megacorporations there are with multi trillion dollar valuation, the more easier it becomes for them together to carry the US economy, due to their ability to grow year on year in the double digits growth rate.

As of now the US has 6 companies with a market valuation above a trillion USD totaling approximately 14 trillion USD.

By next year we can expect that number to increase to 9 trillion dollar companies in the US.

The US did not reach escape velocity in comparison to the rest of the world in current year, but US mega corporations most certainly have.

These are entities that will grow at double digit rates year on year and keep furthering the gap between themselves and the rest of the world.

Elon Musk today is the only person in the world, who as a human has reached the same escape velocity potential compared to the rest of the world.

His net worth is already guaranteed to cross 300 billion USD and there is no way in heck any other billionaire will ever be able to catch up to him.

Biggest losers in the mega corp race:

1. Saudi Aramco, its value keeps going down.

2. Ali baba - it's value keeps going down.

3. Samsung - barely growing at the same rate as middle income nation states. South Korea's flagship company has peaked and cannot carry South Korea any further on its back.

4. Non American corporations - American mega corporations are just better at growing at insane growth rates compared to companies from any other part of the world.

Mega corporations were always the next stage of capitalism. China failed to realize this and tore down their own industries to mid tier companies. That was a mistake.

Out of the top 100 companies in the world by market cap, only 39 are from outside of the US. This number will only decline further in the future.

There will come a time when all the top 100 companies in the world by market cap are American. There is no way around it anymore.

The US has a pure lead in space tech and capitalism.

South Korea lost at capitalism.

There is a single Japanese company in the top 100. Toyota.

There is a single Canadian company in the top 100.

There are 10 Chinese companies in the top 100.

There are 2 German companies in the top 100.

There are 3 Indian companies in the top 100.

There are 5 UK companies in the top 100.

There are 4 French companies in the top 100.

If we treat mega corporations as the best way to determine the future of world economies then:

1. The US is in the lead with 61 companies growing at an average double digit rates per year.

2. China is the second biggest player with 10 companies in the top 10. However their average growth is far lower than that of the US corporations combined.

3. The third position is held by the European Union with 6 companies.

4. Fourth position belongs to the UK with 5 companies.

5. Fifth position belongs to India with 3 companies.

In conclusion:

The US is only going to become more powerful over time. It is going to remain the world leader and keep growing stronger compared to the rest of the world.

China is going to overtake the EU. If UK rejoins the EU then the EU will overtake China.

The major global empires remain the US (growing further ahead), China, European Union (with UK), and India.

We already know that due to Chinese demographics and slowing economy the Chinese will never catch up to the US economy.

This means that the Chinese will remain a major partner in the global supply chain behind the US.

Netherlands provides Chip architecture with ASML.

Taiwan provides the most cutting edge chip manufacturing with TMSC.

Samsung provides affordable mobile devices for middle income nations.

Similarly it makes sense for China to become the leader in AI tech in the global supply chain.

This would give the Chinese a secure position in the global supply chain and a specialization, without them ever being able to over take the west.

China cannot overtake the US economy.

China cannot beat the US is military, or space, or robotics, or chip manufacturing.

The only space left for China where they could possibly keep up is now AI.

In conclusion:

China will become the global leader in AI similar to how Taiwan is the global leader in semiconductors.

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1d9yo86/the_latest_releases_from_china_qwen_2_and_kling/

Unless Elon musk beats them with xAI. That is a possibility too.

That is honestly very likely. xAI sounds like pure kino.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

"While xAI's stated goal is "to understand the true nature of the universe", one of its immediate objectives is to create an AI that is capable of advanced mathematical reasoning, something not found in current models."

I am betting on xAI to save America and out compete Chinese AI.

Elon Musk currently has taken over all the cutting edge tech.

We believe in Musk.

Elon Musk net worth has reached 210.4 billion USD making him the richest person in the world, and will go even further up now that Starship has successfully landed.

Elon Musk has raised 6 billion for his xAI - https://old.reddit.com/r/elonmusk/comments/1d1zolu/elon_musks_xai_raises_6_billion_to_fund_its_race/

Elon Musk ready to make life interplanetary. It's finally happening! - https://old.reddit.com/r/elonmusk/comments/1d5kge8/elon_we_gonna_go_to_the_moon_we_gonna_have_a_base/

Elon Musk having a 50 billion dollar pay package fight at Tesla - https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/teslas-top-retail-investor-votes-against-restoring-elon-musks-50-billion-pay-package/

I am on team Elon and hope he gets it as a prize for making Starship work. Results out this Wednesday.

On the sadder news side, the first neuralink connection to a human had some issues. Hopefully they resolve those soon but I am still iffy on having a chip in my brain.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/09/neuralink-brain-chip-implant

Team Elon let's go. The best of America. The best of humanity. To the moon people. To the moon.

Currently Elon Musk is 52 years old.

He still has at least 18 years to revolutionize technology and the future of humanity.

His biggest failed project so far appears to be the Boring Company, but even it seems to do zombie movements from time to time, so who knows.

Will Elon Musk's net worth cross 300 billion?

Vote! VOTE! VOTE!

Starliner has been given a go to hold at 260 meters from the space station. During the approach two reaction control system jets have failed off. A manual flight test has been put on hold while flight controllers look to restore those jets with a hot fire. Watch live:… pic.twitter.com/hXyaXuMZmv

— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) June 6, 2024

!spacechads for Boeing.

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!spacechads sorry for the delay I forgot

Launch was successful. Still waiting for reentry. Here is the Everyday Soystronaut stream.

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!spacechads Starliner launch is scheduled for 10:52 a.m. EDT.

Predictions?

Crew members are:

Commander Barry E. Wilmore

Pilot Sunita Williams

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Targeting Thursday, June 6 for Starship’s fourth flight test.

A 120-minute launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK pic.twitter.com/jWdhCAyk8I

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 4, 2024

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-4

!spacechads

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