It is this disconnected from reality attitude that gives technical people a bad reputation. Please reconsider your bad takes.

How do they have some things that are more advanced than the rest of the world, like EV batteries?

The tropes are tiresome, reeks of hubris and bigotry

Where do you think the United States gets all its chips? We certainly do not know how to print them ourselves nearly as well as the Dutch and Taiwanese, probably the Chinese too. Are we not relying on other countries for R&D across a number of industries? Is there something bad about sharing advancements at the global scale.

blowing out other's candles does not make yours burn brighter

Who gave them authority to act?

These aren't rich people, this movement is almost entirely fueled by young people. Educate yourself more before thinking this is reddit.

Young people who can't afford the risk, and don't bother to understand that fact.

> Well apparently they don't really have a choice

The notion that poor circumstances somehow justify poor choices is extremely counterproductive, as the context of this thread should make abundantly clear.

Just saying rich people betting and losing is much more funny than poor people making bad financial decision in the hope of maybe living a better life.

> they don’t really have a choice

This kind of discourse is so intellectually poor…

You know who is also poor?

The disconnect of ivory tower tech workers from normal people has never been more apparent.

Can we revisit this comment in 2057?

I mean, it's better than /b/OS would be, no?

It's literally absurdity that you even wrote this at all.

ahh yes the perfect world fallacy