The cost of access to capital is so astronomical in the U.S. Commercial. Industrial. Even intellectual. If the U.S. feels poor despite being fabulously wealthy and Europe and Japan feel wealthy despite not having as much absolute wealth, it is a matter of access
I am terrified that a future where any form of transgressive, “unproductive”, “harmful” communication or expression is actively criminalized is rapidly becoming real. Nothing can come of this criminalization except a total stultification of culture.