I find this so repulsive. I don't want to be part of this needy, anti-Kardashev, DEI civilization. «You must want prosperity today», says Doshi. I've seen that German «prosperity»: those penny-pinching, energy-poor peasants with no greater ambition. Stand on two legs – or KNEEL.
The opposition to what China is doing is just the doctrine of iustum pretium, at greater scale. Gentiles always want to enable producers to live well, even if as a result the whole society is poor. They have to be bullied by outsiders to evolve. Yesterday, Jews. Today, Chinese.
Underrated point.
