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I know from my days in the security industry, because I knew persons who worked for manufacturers, that Walmart would volunteer to teach manufacturers how to move their factories to China.
Bruce Sterling:
American soft power is vanishing. Foreigners are much less interested in American television, movies, pop music… America once had a tremendous hammerlock on those expensive channels of distribution, but those old analog megaphones don’t matter half as much in today’s network society.
The USA has become a big banana republic; in other words, it’s come to behave like other countries quite normally behave. The upside is that we don’t get blamed for what happens; the downside is, nothing much happens. Decay and denial. Gothic
But, as a consolation, Goldman’s sacks are full.
Via Feastingonroadkill.
