Why is top US leadership so schizophrenic when it comes to China economic central planning? It simultaneously is unfair and beats the "free market" but it also simultaneously is going to collapse any minute now
As we all know, China is currently beating the USA in just about every metric, from education, to manufacturing, to medicine, technology, etc. China makes our everything, they make our chips, our semiconductors, our pharmaceutical precursors, our drugs, the list goes on. We will never go to war with them because they are the hand that feeds us.
Why does China lead on everything?
Because of strict state control i.e. central planning. China, unhindered by a private sector hellbent on regulatory capture and stopping all public investment, says, "hey, we're going to build this chip fab, and then we're gonna build 3 more by 2032 as outlined in this 15 year plan" and then they just fucking do it.
It's clearly a winning strategy, and the USA kind of used to do it(railroads, highways, critical infrastructure was built with government funds and it was all but central planning in name) back in the day before the government went full rslur and only started caring about the interests of capital instead of the public.
Going back to China, the Chinese government helps build vital infrastructure like chip fabs and bullet trains. Their government goes, "hey, I'm gonna spend money on
insert vital technology/thing here" and then they just fucking do it. There's no arguing, there's no bickering about "who's going to pay for that??!?!" they
just fucking do it. Again, it
clearly works, so you think the top US elites would want to copy it or at least go back to the babby-tier central-planning-lite it used to engage in.
You may ask, what do the top US elite think about China's economic planning?
For starters,
you get 100 cope and seethe articles daily from our braindead neolib leaders like this one. They're all schizo shit, because after reading these articles seething about "picking winners and losers" daily, you'll come to realize these articles only come in two flavors(the above being flavor 2, but you can find plenty of flavor one by typing "picking winners and losers" into google):
- Flavor one: The mask comes off, and they admit that central planning works, and there's no way that western style "free markets" can compete with state subsidized industries, so their solution is to very angrily demand that china stop subsidizing industries. If China doesn't stop subsidizing industries and doesn't stop engaging in central planning they're going to keep writing them very strongly worded letters. Basically, "stop winning, it's not fair!"
- Flavor two: The mask stays on, and they swear up and down, that any minute now, China is going to collapse because central planning and subsidizing industries doesn't work and that the "free market" aka tyranny of capital aka choking out all public investment, will just work bro trust me China is going to collapse and be forced to go free market bro trust me my dad works for Xi Jinping China is gonna be forced to turn free market because if they don't they're gonna collapse any minute bro trust me bro Dennis Prager said so.
I haven't really been able to figure out why they do this, but I do know that their favorite buzz-phrase when it comes to the subject of central planning is "picking winners and losers," here's some cope from the article above:
"Picking Winners and Losers" has to be one of those Cato-institute braintrust-created propaganda phrases, because if you type "Picking Winners and Losers" into Google, literally all the results will be from coping neolibs and neocons screeching about how we can't have the government do common sense shit like build trains and chip fabs because it's reee picking winners and losers ree. Sometimes though, like I said, these neolibs will go mask off and admit say that "Picking Winners and Losers" is a good thing and we need to do it.
In fact, 90% of the time, when neolibs admit central planning works,
they rebrand central planning as "national security" as seen in this article where they admit the USA needs to go back to making chips. It's like these people literally cannot stand for public investment in anything, and are so far up the ass of serving capital, they can't even fathom or conceive of the government doing anything other than facilitating the tyranny of private capital, and need to come up with more braintrust created buzzwords like rebranding a lack of central planning a "national securiry risk."
I don't really get it, I'm confused as to why our "leadership" is so schizoprehnic, and I wish Daddy Xi would just put us out of our misery already TBH
Post Edit: TBH, now that I think about it, central planning is kind of a prerequisite for having bullet trains. All those overly convoluted, brainlet explanations from all of those "why the USA doesn't have a bullet train" articles can be boiled down to a simple answer: lack of central planning. The free market is too inefficient to support bullet trains. Private capital can't afford to fund it, and the current laws make it impossible (over 9000 land permits needed from 2000 property owners for 2km of track, if one disagrees, the whole project is canceled) Bullet trains are like the ultimate filter for a modern civilization.
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