[xwolfi]

I guess we all want what we don't have. I'd trade the cuisine for German engineering because it feels somehow, in the grand scheme, what will matter eventually is to resist and compete with a Chinese democracy, centuries down the line.

For countries like France relying on past capital and stagnating, admired by productive germans who dream of our dilletante for sure, waking up next to a space faring, technologically advanced and politically enticing China, size of a small planet may I remind you, will be hard. Maybe we ll sell them poetry, but my guess is we ll deplete for good and rot away. We ll never manage to keep the nanny state, since to this day, we borrow from.. . China to finance it.