America oscillates from Western to Eastern Roman Empire.
Western Roman Empire is economic, political, and military strength and ingenuity and will.
Eastern Roman Empire is studiousness, beurocracy, finance, risk management.
I believe it was a war between business models. Slavery vs. Industrial Revolution.
The industrials wanted to end slavery/competition and grow into the South.
Foolishly, the south didn't recognize that Industrialization was a far superior business model not only economically but morally.
The south had a monopoly on cotton, a single point of failure. Hardly a free capitalist economy.
NOW, we are more divided than ever since the civil war and once again it's a battle of economic models. Free capitalism vs State socialism.
This is what the fight is over now just as it was during the Civil War.
Money and resources and the system to allocate them.
2 billion years ago, a nuclear reactor geologically self-assembled and turned itself on.
No humans were involved. Only rock, groundwater, & natural uranium.
It ran intermittently for hundreds of thousands of years.
Here's the story of Oklo (not the company, but the place!):🧵
they are trying to kill cursor and lovable… and every startup and application — as I’ve warned
Infrastructure companies eventually try to win the platform game, then they learn and take out all their partners on the app layer