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To Save Our Economy, Ditch Taiwan (November 2011) (nytimes.com)
5 points by deidei on May 4, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


A dumb idea then, a monumentally stupid idea now. Taiwan represents the best of what the Chinese culture could become if they told the CCP to fuck off.


That phrase and strategy seems to me to logically reduce as "To be more selfish, be more selfish." If so, we can ask more simply: is selfishness itself even deterministically self-interested in the end? That is to say, does selfishness fail to serve an individual human's highest well-being?


What was an insane idea then, is an insane idea now, too. Semiconductors hello. Democracy underdog next to homogeneity-driven monoculutre. Anyway, how am I supposed to read this? NYtimes has an annoying paywall and my CSS ninja magic seems like an unnecessary step to get to the matter


There you go https://archive.ph/fmQR9

Sorry I should probably have put the non-paywalled link in the submission


Thank you, this is even more insane a notion than I thought before reading!




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