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Why the US doesn’t have super apps
Skill issue. 🤭
WeChat was built up from many years of developing and iterating. South Korea has a similar app Kakao with payments and ordering rides etc. that has been around for a similar amount of time so it’s not a Socialism thing.
It’s just that the US social media giants didn’t make the effort a decade ago and now they are behind.
it’s not a Socialism thing
Yeah it’s more of a strong governance model thing where strong communication and cooperation is maintained between workers. A socialist society or the company being nationalized isn’t required but essentially upholds the business model that doesn’t strive for short-term profits but instead orients toward sustainable and realistic growth and resists against the enshittification of the organization.
Skill issue. 🤭
Amerikkka does suck at building an educated population with a high standard of living that produces motivated and competent people able to create non-mediocre tech. We’ve been a decaying society undergoing third/fourth worldization via deindustrialization, privatization, deregulation, and rollback of workers’ rights for decades now. No wonder companies are ran by executives that don’t have the discipline to work towards anything beyond short-term profits, and instead we have companies like Google that buy companies and then kill their products on a quarterly basis, while developing and rushing deployment of tools like Gemini AI for the purpose of chasing the next tech bubble and turn the company into a laughing stock, and then they layoff thousands of their workers because of the executives’ nearsightedness, incompetence, greed, and ignorance that setup the workers to fail from the start, which is done to make up for the losses and meet their quarterly quotas artificially. It’s as if late stage capitalism/imperialism is facing crises that it doesn’t have an answer to solve besides pillaging other countries and stopping socialist nations from competing with it (this isn’t meant to be demeaning towards you).
No wonder companies are ran by executives that don’t have the discipline to work towards anything beyond short-term profits
I agree. American tech sort of tries this or that product for a while and then it’s just abandoned because the user engagement didn’t shoot to the moon fast enough. You only have a few dominant players and they all do that.
The issue ia clear and simple, it has to be a state initiative, and would eat heavily into the market share of current big players of the sector, and those players either have nothing to gain, assuming they tried to give their app actually good uses as wechat has, or they would distort it so badly that it would not change things meaningfully, it wouldn’t be similar to wechat. So meta and company will fight against it because social gain is not on their radar, but the US state has some interest in it because it might be one good tool to try to claw out of current and looming crises. But the issue is that they are in a somewhat soft position to bargain for it because they lean heavily on the big techs for propaganda, which is of essential value to the US government. TLDR capitalism is a mess, the state is less and less capable of keeping the bare minimum of social support to its people given the insatiable hunger for profit of the private sector
exactly right
We are watching “We need to stop China from getting their hands on our tech” become “We need to get our hands on China’s tech” in real time. The US fall/China rise is very much like a large ship sinking, slow and barely noticeable at first and then before you know it the ship is practically falling into the ocean.
A qualitative, large, bullfrog leap, if you will.
In a generally forward direction I assume
Depends which way the fly is flying (assuming bullfrogs eat flies).
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