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by Feeble 1619 days ago
I think we need the government to decide exactly what technical parts should be produced with the production of semiconductors. Maybe they can make a 5 year plan for exactly what parts to produce and who gets them. Then we don't have to worry about any newtech coming in and disruping our current lives! /s
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You're right, profit is the only ethical concern and government should step back and let the invisible hand of the free market sort itself. If it's economical to use child slaves for chocolate cultivation the government has no business stepping in to regulate business. If we can build faster pollution machines that make even more digital drug money who cares that researchers can't get GPU clusters for cancer research?

Might makes right and profit is king. If you want "innovation" you must let JP Morgan Chase Stanley Rockefeller dictate the productive forces and foreign policy of the largest industrial power in the world! /s