That's actually the goal. Their fucked up ideology is to deindustrialize the world. The reason is that is so fucked up is because we've used up the easy to get to resources. If the world enters a technological dark age we will never advance this far again. These fucks are world destroying nihilists.
This truly is the scary thing. When you study the evolution of industry, it's been this back and forth between easily accessible resources (oil just sitting on top of sand in the desert, iron ore in river beds) driving technology which then enables getting at harder to access resources which drives more industry and so on.
If we had to reboot civilization, it would take geologic time, not biologic time, since all of the easy to access resources that our ancestors used to bootstrap civilization have been depleted.
There's a pretty bold line between, "I need this new $1200 phone because it's 1.2% faster than last year's $1200 phone!" and preserving food or having inexpensive, reliable, and highly effective firearms that are easy to make and obtain. Also, aspirin. I would miss aspirin a lot.
Think its more the case the CEO's have been promised seats at the table of a socialist America. Rather than Chinese slave labor.
Because I can tell you in a socialist America no one will be buying $800+ plus smartphones anymore. Because not many people in China can afford it.
A socialist America will be the end of the consumer era.
That's actually the goal. Their fucked up ideology is to deindustrialize the world. The reason is that is so fucked up is because we've used up the easy to get to resources. If the world enters a technological dark age we will never advance this far again. These fucks are world destroying nihilists.
This truly is the scary thing. When you study the evolution of industry, it's been this back and forth between easily accessible resources (oil just sitting on top of sand in the desert, iron ore in river beds) driving technology which then enables getting at harder to access resources which drives more industry and so on.
If we had to reboot civilization, it would take geologic time, not biologic time, since all of the easy to access resources that our ancestors used to bootstrap civilization have been depleted.
I hate consoomer culture, so yes please. Reject modernity. Embrace tradition.
There's something to modernity.
Advanced metallurgy. Smokeless gun powder. HVAC. Refrigeration. Internal Combustion. Advanced farming technique. Modern medicine.
There's a pretty bold line between, "I need this new $1200 phone because it's 1.2% faster than last year's $1200 phone!" and preserving food or having inexpensive, reliable, and highly effective firearms that are easy to make and obtain. Also, aspirin. I would miss aspirin a lot.
I know. I was Ted-posting, lol.