Patrick O'Shaughnessy

If we had manufacturing excellence back here again and controlled vertically our whole destiny, we have the spark covered.

What would you do if you were fully in control?

Can you imagine that happening without some sort of visceral crisis?

Can that happen slowly and organically?

I remember this idea from The Hundred Year Marathon, the book about the very long term planning of China to be resurgent and then be dominant, that maybe it's quite deliberate that there is some line that operated below which no one notices the compounding that's happening in China.

And with no spikiness above the line to their progress, just more smooth and steady.

All of a sudden, we're going to wake up in 2050 and be like, oh, my God, what happened?

How did this happen?

And it's been happening for forever, for 100 years.

And so what do you think of that, that it's just been deliberately quiet and below the radar?

Yeah.

And that's a big reason that Americans haven't noticed.

They don't go to China.

They don't visit.

They don't see it.

They don't go around Shenzhen.

They don't go anywhere.

So it's just completely invisible to them.

And they're used to the status quo here.

What are the highest similarities between the two peoples, between Americans and Chinese?