You’re right that this has been a big reason for this resistance. It is not only that controlling the means of supply drives long term profits, but that the supply infrastructure generates huge profits as well. The largest portion of your home electricity cost is not the production but the delivery. If we could free everyone from both these costs almost everyone would be a lot happier.

You should extend this way of looking at it to the rest of the capitalist system we are being subjected to. Poorer quality goods lead to higher repurchase rates and more waste. Company mergers stifle new technology and slow human progress. These systems need heavy regulation and even extermination.

By that way of thinking, he would have been free to wage war if he had received it.

Given the physics of conservation of mass, he must be shitting a boatload out of view.

If you take up hockey late in life it’s because you don’t give a puck anymore?

'64 Galaxy 500 for me.

Absolutely. It’s not that it hasn’t been done before, it’s just that it shouldn’t be praised as accomplishment.

The actual statistic isn’t as important as knowing that every advancement the Chinese make in the future will be tainted by their prolific theft of IP.