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Does objective reality exist?

The effective is only moderately successful in predicting behavior because, as we know, decisions are often not rational or are based on a defective analysis of the consequences of the choices. That is why the world is in such a mess.

Because it is impractical to use the underlying physical laws to predict human behavior, we adopt what is called an “effective theory “.
In physics, an effective theory is a framework created to model certain observed phenomena without describing in detail all the underlying processes.

The Taiping Rebellion

When Eisenhower left the White House he took up residence on a 576-acre farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  He didn’t buy the land.  Nor did he pay for construction of outbuildings or the livestock that soon inhabited them. 
Ike’s dream retirement was bankrolled by Sid Richardson and Clint Murchison, two Texas oil billionaires who share interests with the Rockefellers in Texas and Louisiana oilfields.

Whether her philosophy will change the face of the earth isn’t the supreme issue. As the enemy of all smug contentment, of all blind acquiescence in things as they are, and as the prophet who dares to preach that our failures are not of the wrong applications of values but in the values themselves. Emma Goldman

Laughter is like lightning, it disseminates everywhere and lights up everything.

Apple Squeeze (profit) tilted the field in favor of local verses Taiwanese rivals. They would work for the experience, could access cheap capital, government subsidies, land appropriation, and a labor pool. Foxconn (Taiwan) that had builtChina’s manufacturing over the past forty years was being strangled.

Ci Jinping’s Made in China 2025 plan, published in 2015, had asked Chinese companies to “master core technologies, perfect the industrial supply chain, and perform our own development capabilities.”

By 2018, Xi had shut down Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior, SACOM, after thirteen years of advocacy, the group disbanded.

2013 Chinese news presses for worker rights: overtime, and dormitories number workers. Jacky Haynes attempted to champion for workers but subcontractors faced with profits and Apples’, “do what ever it takes.” approach among suppliers meant that if you wanted to be in the loop, show a profit.

Rule by Law is controlling the people— or this case, nudging corporate behavior. Voluntary is the new mandatory.

China began to exploit this by designing legislation to compel foreign companies to respond with favors: overhaul how they did business, leave China, or find out what the local officials wanted. Rule by law.