The question is not US v China, it's Peter Thiel and Elon Musk vs literally anything else (that would be clearly better).

  ECB is doing one reckless thing after another which will inevitably lead to Germany leaving Eurozone at some point.

OTOH the concept of independent public institution and general checks and balances seems to have been entirely forgotten, so maybe that's not a solution for 21st century.

An alternative would be communally owned media (50/50 by readership and journalists), with simple direct tax incentive to fund them (equal amounts of $ per person)

You have responsibilities, which ideally should be stipulated in some form in a contract, and if you are vaguely senior they hopefully go beyond "do whatever steeve needs to feel good".

I would argue that it is in fact your manager whose job entails making your (and your peers) professional life easier, by identifying the roadblocks, escalating problems if need be, etc...

Several things can be true at the same time : it's possible for the wild claims of great efficiency gains and transformative (for good) power of AI to be overblown (for the sake of stock prices) AND for AI applied to surveillance to be a terrifying prospect.

Surveillance AI doesn't need to be correct to be terrifying.

Regulations in payments tend to be very technical, and inserting some crypto/distributed plausible deniability in the mix could get them 5 more years of delay (until the next generation of regulations). It will depend on how those regulations take shape in the coming months.

That's a common fallacy of safety by the way :)

It could very well "save your ass" just once (whatever that means) while costing you more in time, opportunity, effort, or even false sense of safety, to generate more harm than it will ultimately save you.