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I'm starting to wonder why the US ever thought it could it hold an edge in all these fields without ever investing real money into education.
China graduate 5 million STEM students a year and actually invest money into research and pushing technology instead of just finding new ways to extract rent. They were always going to be able to catch up and then move ahead.
A lot of Western nations are actually reducing their funding to sciences.
Shooting themselves in the foot and then blaming China for it.
The first axe will always be to the humanities though. The program opportunities between engineering students and liberal arts students at my uni is night and day. Partly why I'm doing a double major, there's just not a sustainable future in the humanities.
It used to bum me out that our country invests so little in the humanities, but now I just hope it diminishes our ability to reproduce our culture.
Pretty sure they've already done that in many places
They expected to coast on their dollar power and cultural capital to attract scientists trained elsewhere forever I guess
Probably could've if not for the sinophobia and racism on top of the underfunding
Their plan was to import talent while defunding schools here to give the capitalists tax breaks. China is able to retain their talent though and put them to better use than a capitalist economy ever could.
I think it's mostly just good old racism. They really thought that Chinese were simply intellectually inferior to them and could never develop comparable tech on their own.
They still do this with the assertion that China steals everything from western tech.
…as instagram tries (and fails) to copy TikTok’s algorithm lmao
And it gets funnier by the day as it becomes increasingly clear that China is moving ahead of the west technologically.