Ian Crossland

Something might be very cheap to order from the barbarian leader, but then the barbarian leader gets money and he poisons your DNA and kills you in seven years because –

you funded a danger that you didn't, just because it was cheaper, you were actually funding a negative that you didn't.

What?

In what way?

That won't work because the Chinese are going up 0 to 100.

A, when you have free trade and no protections, I'm exactly correct.

You saw C-Dance.

They just said, fuck IP law.

They don't care about any of – they're going all the way, disrupting the entire planet.

My general problem with this whole thing is that if it's just like free trade, kind of laissez-faire, like path of least resistance, that insidious machines within government will take advantage of that easy, like, yeah, we're just going along to get along.

And literally the Chinese will just buy us out and then own us back.

Yeah, short-term gain, long-term losses.

Let me ask you this question.

Ian, it's like this.

No.

Now we're vibe coding.

Andrew, can you define what you mean when you say free trade also?

It's a very common word.

I'd love to hear a quick definition.

My concern is about corporatocracy and a corporation taking control in a country and then serving as the de facto government like Amazon.