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>People who shoot someone or throw bombs at someone even though that someone never did something against them

I think the point is that there's going to be an increasingly large percentage of the populace who think that the AI bosses / billionaire class did indeed do something against them.

Having previously worked in a few DCs in SG, I was incredulous when I saw those sales figures.

I suppose the extreme take would be that it becomes a de facto bounty hunting platform

>Having everything in one unit is a recipe for a single point of failure disaster.

They're optimizing for something other than resilience.

I agree with your market analysis. Private jets are often referred to as "time machines" given how much time HNW / exec travelers can save. There's a market segment that's willing to pay a high premium for reduced travel time.

Humans weaponizing water flow (or lack there of) has been routinely used through out history.

You're paying for:

- Trade licensing fees

- Liability insurance

- Medical insurance

- A vehicle to move equipment around

- Vehicle insurance

- Tools to complete the job

- The time taken to drive to your residence

- The time taken for the quote itself

- The expertise required to correctly spec/quote equipment

- The tradesperson driving to the city office

- The tradesperson applying AND paying for a city permit to do the work

- The tradesperson driving to a supply house

- Purchasing the equipment on credit

- Transporting the equipment back to your house

- Ripping out and disposing the old equipment (if applicable)

- The time and expertise to install the equipment correctly

- The time vacuum out the lineset

- The time charge the equipment properly with refrigerant

- The time commission the system and make sure it's running properly

- The tradesperson driving BACK to the customer house to be present for a city inspection

email sent!

>Terrestial transmitters can be much closer.

Making them nice targets for the enemy

Living in Australia and interested in buying a business, I can attest to biz4sale-type sites being a real problem.

There's a lot more to manufacturing than "just" being a line assembly worker.

The factories have to be designed and built. This includes all of the manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, automation, etc. All of which are done by reasonably paid, middle class engineers and trades.

Then you have all the 2nd order businesses that get stimulated. Energy must be provided. Mines, mills, refineries, etc. to make the raw materials. The packaging for the end products. Logistics for supplies and end products.

All of the value above used to be in the US but has been captured overseas for decades now.

Labelling Singapore as a petro-state is a stretch. Collecting taxes from refining is a very different thing than reaping the benefits of royalties from oil production.