I think it is because we conflate the current Chinese system with the old Mao/Soviet Union system because all call themselves "communist".
The vast majority are completely ignorant of what Socialism with Chinese characteristics mean.
I can't imagine even 5% of the US population knows who Deng Xiaoping was.
The idea there are many parts of the Chinese economy that are more Laissez-faire capitalist than anything we have had in the US in a long time would just not compute for most Americans.
I never tried the $200 a month subscription but it just solved a problem for me that neither o1 or claude was able to solve and did it for free. I like everything about it better.
All I can think is
"Wait, this is completely insane!"
I just tried DeepSeek for the first time and immediately canceled my OpenAI subscription.
Seeing the chain of thought is now just mandatory for me after one prompt. That is absolutely incredible in terms of my own understanding of the question I asked.
Even the chat UI feels better and less clunky. Now picture 20 years from now when the Chinese companies have access to digital Yuan transaction data along with all the Chinese video surveillance data. At some point, I don't see how US Companies can possibly compete in this space.
This is the first time I am actually worried we might really bankrupt the country trying to keep up with a race we can not possibly win.
My understanding of the problems with high speed rail in the US is more fundamental than money.
The problem is loose vs strong property rights.
We don't have the political will in the US to use eminent domain like we did to build the interstates. High speed rail ultimately needs a straight path but if you can't make property acquisitions to build the straight rail path then this is all a non-starter in the US.
The vast majority are completely ignorant of what Socialism with Chinese characteristics mean.
I can't imagine even 5% of the US population knows who Deng Xiaoping was.
The idea there are many parts of the Chinese economy that are more Laissez-faire capitalist than anything we have had in the US in a long time would just not compute for most Americans.