It’s indeed much better.
I already had a good grasp on reality before becoming a communist by looking at things more scientifically, but having a proper understanding of and giving more emphasis to class struggle was a huge boost to my understanding of society. It was also nice knowing there were ideas/systems more advanced than what I had come up with as pretty much nothing that came out of pro-capitalism writings and media was any good.
But it’s weird that India claims the island, even though they don’t own it.
That does “give them access” to the resource in a 200 nautical miles radius from it, so even if they don’t get too close to the island they can still extract resources farther out around it or they just claim it to avoid others from using it as a base against India.
It has happened to me a few times so I think it’s normal. At least in my country.
Unfortunately I have such a hard time keeping track of everything in the story it always comes out a bit messy.
This is starting to be a problem to me too, so I make sure to always write my ideas and any incossistencies I can think of and write it in the order that it appears in the story separated by chapters. For example, as I reread a chapter I realized there was a problem 2 or 3 chapters before so I went to another txt file I keep always open and wrote it down on that chapter so when I look through it again I can fix it.
It’s still hard but it has helped a lot.
First of all, AI is a tool. But unlike a nuke the workers can have access to it, at least to some degree, allowing people to use it to deal with capitalists’ AI.
The real issue is not only that AI doesn’t work as advertised, but the impact it will have before this becomes painfully obvious to everyone.
The impact on manual labor will take a while though (because it takes time to build all the robots that will be needed), so as everyone that can WFH gets automated forever all these people can be brought to our side to revolutionize society. It’s eitheir that or hunger after all…
They’re so used to doing these things in other countries that they will try it themselves?
Let me grab some popcorn.
Could just be a coincidence too. You’re being shown dozens, if not hundreds of ads in a day that you’re not paying much attention to them until one shows something you were just thinking about and you notice it. You might have had another such ad the day before and didn’t notice, for example.
But indeed, the more data they have on you the more chances of such things happening which would indeed feel like they’re reading your mind.
I disagree a little with the 5 years part as I can see a small chance of “a collapse” happening within that time, but as for the 30 years part it seems possible too.
As they have to steal ever more from their own populations and can steal less from the Global South they will become weaker and fractured, and if, for example, this happens in some parts before others it can lead to fascism in some countries in Europe which might see their neighbors in better shape as enemies, potentially leading to western infighting and an acceleration of their own collapse.
Hopefully such a scenario the conflicts stay internal instead of going global and they only weaken themselves while the rest of the world prosper. And in such a scenario we could even see Global Sout countries with enough power to massively influence western countries perhaps even leading to imperialism against them as the Global South is unlikely to go communist so fast.
Other scenarios might be more plausible though…