@BasedLunatic @beardalaxy @Hephaestic i don't really care about china or russia. people have been trying to play up china for 10-20 years and their government is insignificant. if it were not for clintons opening the door for them to steal our shit at unprecedented rates they would be completely unaccomplished.
the problem imo is pretty well explained by Deming (maybe others.) we stopped caring about quality, and innovation, and it just became some harvard retard squad tossing "IP" around and spending more time rebundling corpses than anything.
in the case of Intel it is not failing because of BRICS. Intel is failing because a hedge fund of know-nothings has free money from random retirement account programs to throw around at stock speculation and they've acquired large volume of ownership in companies they don't begin to understand how to operate, do not care, and appoint board members who also do not know anything, who appoint CEOs that just milk the place until the rot causes it to collapse.
they literally fired the CEO that stated his intention was to restart chips, and not maximize quarterly dividends. they hired him knowing full well this was the goal and then fired him because he was doing exactly that.
regardless of whatever else the world is doing, things like shareholder primacy need to die.