Do you think I'm advocating for inflation as an institution?

History is history. Maybe you think AI is going to herald in some era of non-inflation and free people from the control of the ultra rich.

It's pretty apparent to me that AI isn't going to do that. It's going to do very very very very very much the opposite.

I agree that disruption of trade leads to wars. Usually of very large scale but we haven't had one of those since the advent of nuclear weapons.

And people keep misinterpreting my comment that I believe Donald Trump has good policy. I absolutely don't. That's why I said the tariffs are insane. Theoretically what Donald Trump wants to do is bring manufacturing back to his white voters in the former middle class, and bring the US into an isolationist stance.

Biden did not put troops on the ground in Ukraine. I believe bush II would have enthusiastically. Biden did not roll back the tarriffs Trump imposed in his first term either.

So generally the overall political trend in the United States is to be like this.

Ask the rest of your comment. You could ignore history if you want and hope for something different. But.... Well you should know the quote about history, and I don't want to have to repeat it:-)

> [Trump... Biden... ]

I've never mentioned either, nor do I assume what you think about them.

> So generally the overall political trend in the United States is to be like this.

The question I'm pondering isn't "what the trend is to be" but rather "why it has to change". Thinking about who and how could change it should wait, lest we end up putting the cart before the horse.

> You could ignore history if you want and hope for something different.

Being careful about not falling into the same traps as before isn't "ignoring history", it's learning from history, which is mostly the opposite of repeating it, because repeating the same thing with the same bad result is the definition of idiocy.