According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.
More of it is by design than you seem to think. Look at all the effort and money being put into dividing people… if entropy was humanity’s natural state, why all the effort to make it happen? And I didn’t say some silver bullet would do it, but that the more people take control over their habits, the less they inherently give up control to the wire pullers…
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”
Edward ‘The Father of Public Relations’ Bernays
Tribalism is an inherent part of human nature. Capitalism and nationalism certainly exacerbate and exploit this though, no doubt about it.
Tribalism is a part, no doubt, but we are more than capable of rising above it and seeing beyond our tribalism.