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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International trade is bad.
Also communism only failed because of trade sanctions.
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The funniest thing is that the USSR had each member specialize in production which is hecking wholesome unless others do it
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Which resulted in horrific ecological disasters (today I will divert all rivers to grow cotton in the high deserts of Azerbaijan, this will certainly have zero consequences
) and completely screwed the former Soviet Union over as without the artificial trade networks of subsidized transport and state funding, most post-soviet countries were left with giant useless industrial bases and no ability to sell their products at a competitive cost on the open market, leading to staggering economic decay as they adjusted.
Case on point- the SU-25 attack jet can no longer be produced. It was assembled in the Sukhoi factory in Tbilsi, using engines and avionics from Ukraine, and other parts from Russia, and was dependent on the Soviet rail network for logistics and other components. Hence, Georgia now has no aviation industry and giant decaying factory that can't produce anything
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Communism, never once
They'll build everything on fake trade then it collapses once it's not propped
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The stupidest part I heard was that the Soviet Union wanted to ensure that there was lots of internal trade to keep the republics connected and dependent on the Union remaining intact. To do this, they incentivized factory managers by scoring them highly on using components sources from diverse parts of the union and internal transport was completely free. So they built huge interconnected networks sourcing things from inefficient suppliers ignoring costs of transport.
Needless to say, this collapsed like wet tissue paper the second the union dissolved
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