Whoever achieves low-cost abundance first becomes the strongest
VraserX · x · 2026-07-16
The author argues that the first nation to drive the cost of energy, housing, and automated labor down to extreme lows will become the most powerful country on Earth.
He emphasizes this won't be achieved through military conquest, but by making abundance irresistible. The real question is which country will achieve this first.
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