[ibeff]

> China will have the robot-operated factories, not the US. What do you anticipate the US will do to obtain goods from those Chinese factories?

Why not let the market take care of it? It's cheaper to buy things from China then make them yourself. When that changes, production will naturally move to the next best place. I don't see the issue.

[rayiner]

Because no economic theory proposes that the efficient outcome is one where the US retains its sovereignty and independence. Nations seek to create bubbles of local maximums, not in maximizing the economic efficiency of the world as a whole. A world where american kids have to learn chinese and fight to immigrate to China may well be an economically efficient outcome from the point of view of the markets. But American policy should fight very hard against that outcome.

[chrisco255]

Because China doesn't share the same goals, desires, or policies we do. They will have the power and cards to dictate world policy if you roll over and let them dominate. Realpolitik matters here. You either dominate the future (or at least stay competitive) or you become a vassal state.

[beeflet]

Because I don't want the chinese to control the world.