dude dropped a few gems.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-brutal-135400213.html

DAVOS, Switzerland — Alibaba founder Jack Ma thinks America went wrong over the past 30 years by focusing too much on war and Wall Street. Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, Ma was asked about globalisation and the reaction to it represented by the election of Donald Trump as US president.

He responded that back when Thomas Friedman published "The World Is Flat" in 2005, globalisation looked like "a perfect strategy" for the US: "We just want the technology, and the IP, and the brand, and we'll leave the other jobs" to other countries like Mexico and China, he said.

"American international companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalisation," Ma said.

As an example of just how much was available, Ma said, "When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month."

"IBM, Microsoft," he added, "the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together ... But where did the money go?"

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(US soldiers during a firefight with Taliban forces in Barawala Kalay Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar province in 2011.Pfc. Cameron Boyd / Wikimedia, CC)
Ma said that 30 years ago the American companies that people in China heard about were Ford and Boeing. Today the companies that people in China talk about are in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street.

At the same time, the US spent a lot of money on foreign conflicts. "In the past 30 years, America had 13 wars spending $2 trillion ... no matter how good your strategy is you're supposed to spend money on your own people," Ma said. "The money goes to Wall Street. Then what happened? Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income ... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?"

"The other countries steal jobs from you guys — that is your strategy. You did not distribute the money in the proper way."


Elsewhere during his talk, Ma said his favourite film was "Forrest Gump" because he saw something of Alibaba in Gump's shrimp boat. Ma quoted Gump as saying "Nobody makes money catching whales — people make money catching shrimps."

"That's how we make money" at Alibaba, he said.

He also revealed that he wanted to retire early: "I don't want to die in my office," he said. "I want to die on the beaches."

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

All that money burned on wars to fill companies pockets...

Imagine if we spent that money in infrastructure and healthcare.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

America is fucked but China is killing its own people just as quickly and hiding it via state controlled media.

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

long before 30 years ago. The mass political killings of the 70's were a huge turning point and obvious unbroken systems and practices which ultimately compromised the type of unified progress that could have been made by the nation.

Yeah human rights, blah blah, polution, blah blah.

But when it comes to infrastructure they don't fuck around. And at least they NOW acknowledge climate change as a problem.

I got a zillion thing I can go in on China about (their cake and it eat to capitalism/oligarchy etc)...but they are dead to rights on this.

https://youtu.be/GpnoPhY1f70


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I ain't lyin. This shit i'm making up is true...

and ultimately its for a pissing contest in hopes of its superpower status being reflected in a thriving middle class.

But id rather have a bunch of ghost towns then a bunch of 20 year olds coming back with no limbs, nahmean? In hopes of basically engineering a pseudo-state for oil/commerce to benefit not the locals, not the american people, but multinational corps.

>https://youtu.be/GpnoPhY1f70
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>I ain't lyin. This shit i'm making up is true...

>and ultimately its for a pissing contest in hopes of its
>superpower status being reflected in a thriving middle class.
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>But id rather have a bunch of ghost towns then a bunch of 20
>year olds coming back with no limbs, nahmean? In hopes of
>basically engineering a pseudo-state for oil/commerce to
>benefit not the locals, not the american people, but
>multinational corps.
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^^^^^^^

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*