Reblog 'Assistant to the Regional Manager'

Author: ikesau

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   title: Sinophobic Sinophilia
   comment: The range and depth of sectors that China now dominates form an almost mind-defying totality. Hence the flourishing genre of what could be crudely called stat porn or, more loftily, the statistical sublime. We can’t see the truth of China whole, so we reach for figures to quantify and tabulate our dazzlement. Nine of the world’s ten highest bridges are in China, all but two of them built in the past decade. In just 2018 and 2019, the country produced almost as much cement — 4.4 billion tons — as the US did during the entire 20th century. China’s solar-power capacity is nearly double that of Europe and the US combined. It produces thirty-three Golden Gate Bridges’ worth of steel every day. By 2030, China will be home to close to half of the world’s entire manufacturing capacity.
   date: 2026-02-07
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+- url: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/assistant-to-the-regional-manager
+  title: Assistant to the Regional Manager
+  comment: 'Paul Bloom on the problem with utopia: necessarily scarce positional goods'
+  date: 2026-02-11