https://twitter.com/rahll/status/1815481828008141212
This is insane. The Taiwanese government is paying farmers to NOT grow rice because they need the water for AI chip manufacturing instead. We're prioritizing AI over feeding people during a drought. https://t.co/Jd3qieucUT pic.twitter.com/dchH1CvT0U
— Reid Southen (@Rahll) July 22, 2024
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Ironically the OP is reliant on TSMC to make his slop movies and to get his daily ration of Soylent.
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You still need a stable agricultural base. They're also putting all their eggs into one basket in an economic sense.
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Strategic decision, the world will be a lot
more pissed if Chingchongland invades and cuts off the supply of virtual waifu chips
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They're also a small island nation with a specialization the entire world needs and are protected by the United States
Specialization maximizes output and if it costs some rice farmers it's more than worth it
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It's unlikely that Taiwan could ever compete against China or the US with a broad diverse economy. Specialization benefits small nations without economies of scale. Taiwan is not going to magically manifest a Mississippi River Basin and compete with American ag on any scale. It's probably cheaper for them to import grain and rice. From a pure military standpoint, yeah, you shouldn't be dependent on other nations for food, but that ship has sailed long ago and smaller nations are fricked in any large scale world war anyway, so they may as well specialize.
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Plus they already have an assurance that we'll feed them, and if we decide to stop supporting them, they're more or less in for a rough ride with rice or no rice so their position doesn't improve at all with more rice.
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That and getting invaded by China. I'd argue the world has put all its eggs in one basket with TSMC. And a good chunk of that rice is for export markets.
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Not if that will cost you your entire manufacturing sector, and not if you can just import everything you need in exchange for your tech.
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We should import all Taiwanese people and make an Israeli-style state in Arizona
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At the same time we can deport all wh*te Arizonans (old frickers) to a reservation in New Mexico. Kristen Sinema can stay, she's cool.
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