hunter67

Our (western) economic model forces competing individual companies to be profitable quickly. China can ignore DeepSeek losing money, because they know developing DeepSeek will help China. Not every institution needs to be profitable.

they compare it to fascist USA though

okay so the police is a business too? Just like private security firms?

but there's also state funded journalism, so they are not forced to do whats commercially viable

when journalism is a business, stuff like this happens...

> I love my own personality and humanity, my soul if you will, but nobody's paying me for it, and so I have to value it accordingly.

Don't let capitalism do this to you. Not everything with value is paid in this system, only things which make the buyer more money.