Why should one be paid in the millions?

 Technology has taken leaps and bounds in the last few decades and made great strides for the good of mankind. The AI Industrial Revolution has changed the world beyond recognition especially in the demands for talents and jobs. Yes, jobs in the new world will not be the same again. The days of 'la kopi', making the best nasi lemak or the best chicken rice could still be around but a tiny shadow of itself. 

The new jobs are highly demanding of talents, real technical talents and expertise, playing with massive halls filled with computers stacked with million or billion dollar chips, not potato chips. The data centres are frightening in their complications, with wires worming everywhere, and lights flickering too, making no sense, without any indication of what they were doing. The factories that were operateing by hundreds and thousands of robots without the need for human presence are not masak, masak, not playing with toys. The people that created them, managed them, operated them, are not the simple talents coming out casually from the mouths. These are highly educated and trained experts and they are being paid in the millions or billions. Many of them are billionaires running these operations. What is running through their minds, getting the computers and machines to do the work is simply amazing. No one would dare to ask why they are being paid in the millions.

On the other hand, the old industries, the food and beverage industries, the transport industries, managing buses, trains and taxis, are still churning along, necessary, daily necessities of lives. The chicken rice operators will be here forever. The big question is, why are these people demanding to be paid in the millions? How much talent and complexities are needed to manage a supermarket, a shoe factory, a restaurant, a post office etc etc that they too should be paid in the millions? What have changed in their jobs demands, what special skills, technical skills, special training are needed to manage the industries of the past, the businesses of the past? 

Should operators of chicken rice stalls, nasi lemak and kopitiams be paid in the millions? How much have their job specifications changed? How more technical demands are needed, necesssary to do these jobs? It is easy to ask to be paid in the millions. But are they justified? Have the jobs changed or day in and day out doing the same repetitive stuff?

What do you think?

American versus Chinese thinking logic in AI and chip designs

 Jensen Huang said Nvidia did not only lose the Chinese market for his chips, all Nvidia chips now banned from China. He has to thank clown Trump for his fate and the future of Nvidia expansion. Trump has virtually strangled the neck of Nvidia for good. But Jensen is not only worrying about the lost of Nvidia's largest chip market and NEVER going to get it back. Trump has closed this door by telling the Chinese that they cannot depend or trust the Americans in the supply of chips. Jensen Huang is fearing the loss of AI and software developers to China when they migrated to work for Chinese chips and AI models. This is a double whammy to Nvidia and all American chip designers and makers as well as AI models. The best Chinese developers and designers are going to work for China, or a big part of these special talents, including those from the West and the world would be lost to China.

DeepSeek and fellowmen will be the greatest beneficiaries of Clown Trump's fiasco. Can't blame Trump for he still thinks he is the best strategists, the most clever man in America. DeepSeek and fellowmen are America's nemesis, released into the market to undercut the foundation and roots of all American AI models...for free, and offering 90% or more of the needs of users, more than enough to do the work they need. China is in fact capturing 90% of the world market in the application of AI models. There is no room for growth for the American high tech giants. Dead at birth, still birth. The reality will hit the Americans in no time. They are now in a stage of self denial. Who can afford American AI? How many needs American AI?

DeepSeek and friends are not only good enough and cheap. They are designed with an architecture and philosophy to operate cheaply, freely and efficiently. Unlike the American bulldozers that thrived on shock and awe logic, employs all the forces and resources available to do a simple job, any job, like using a sledgehammer to smash an ant, Chinese strategy and thinking logic is more precise and efficient, like using a scalper to deal with very specific problems. Chinese AI models only use a fraction of the full power of the apps and data centres, relevant information and specific facts to solve a specific problem. The American models uses everything, like carpet bombing to hit a school or a wedding party and everything around them.

Chinese AI models are very precise and targeted, using only resources and facts that are needed to solve specific issues and problems. They are thus very efficient in the use of expensive chips and energy. No unwanted and wasteful effort and power to do a minor job with the full power of the data centre running in full steam.

DeepSeek and Chinese AI models can operate cheaply and efficiently and cutting down the cost of the users and operators. No need to pay for Rolls Royce to move from point A to point B and burning tires and fuels unnecessary, cheap maintenance and running cost.

How are the massive blundering and overpowering American giants going to compete with cheap and efficient small operators that can do almost everything faster and cheaper? How are energy deficient countries going to operate American data centres that would consume all the electricity of a small city? Chinese thinking logic is always about cost and efficiency, no or little wastage on effort and resources, exactly what many countries, middle and small states and corporations and companies need.

All good things must come to an end

Protests are erupting everywhere all because of the problems created by Trump and his wars resulting in escalating energy costs. There were huge protests in France over rising living costs. The Indians are protesting over corrupt practices by Government officials, jobs availability and cost of living. The Indonesians are protesting against corruption within the government, rising cost of living due to the falling rupiah and the removal of Prabowo over his policies. Who is next?

Thailand is experiencing fallouts in tourism and those sectors involved in tourism are suffering falling visitors. Hotels are running empty, entertainment outlets are not attracting enough visitors and those that depend on foreign tourists are facing problems earning a living. Even Thailand's well renowned honey trapping of money loaded foreign retirees rushing to set up second homes in Thailand to be skinned have peltered out. Many are leaving rather than coming in. I think they have wised up learning from those who fled with just their pants on.

Sad to say, even Bali, the visitor's paradise before COVID, is now a pale shadow of its glory days, the must visit destination for the well-heeled rich spenders. Today, Bali attracts the wrong kind of visitors looking for a budget holiday without the usual spending ability.

As they always say, all good things must come to an end and what goes up will eventually come down.


Anonymous

Brainwashing was to keeping the dull USA citizens from knowing about the progress of the Chinese civilization.

The actual brainwashing was directed at keeping the dull of mind USA citizens from knowing about the progress of the Chinese civilization. Just keep them fixated on the American Dream. It succeeded beyond doubt, with the idea that China was still backward, stifling, producing cheap junks, poverty stricken and living in slums compared to the American Dream.

The opening up of China did wonders to counter the perception. The experience of foreigners living, working and visiting China and the use of social media to say their piece was another plus point. Most were positive feedback but always being accused of being paid by the CPC to say the good things about China. Even if true, what about the USA Government spending US$300 million each year to manufacture fake news about China and spreading them to the MSM that they controlled? Double standard practices as always!

The visa-free extension to foreign visitors to visit and see the real China was another measure to counter the propaganda machine of the USA. Besides giving free counter measuring services against the USA propaganda machine, China also earned revenue from such foreign visitors spending in China. It was a win-win situation. There were actually calls initially by USA politicians to curb the flow of USA visitors to China. We know the USA is afraid to let the cat out of the bag over the fabricated brainwashing carried out over the decades that will be consequential. Talk about all the fake freedoms existing in the beacon of democracy.

Then there was the case of banning Tik Tok which gave rise to the massive migration of USA users of Tik Tok to Rednote that was to backfire badly on the USA Government, with USA citizens now finding out the real living conditions of Chinese in China using Rednote. Now, the genie is really out of the bottle and no way to put it in again.

Recently, China is raising another problem for the USA with Xi inviting a hundred thousand USA students to study in China. It may be an innocent call, but the USA and the West are already panicky and nervous about the move. The Western MSM is already taking pot shots at the idea, using the National Security Issue as always. Soon, there may be legislation to prevent such students from going to China to study. It is to be expected. Not necessary to keep fingers crossed that it will not happen.

Anonymous

China making AI cheap and widespread is a bane of USA

China is making AI cheap and widespread, which is the bane of USA AI companies whose aim is making AI into a money-spinning monopoly and ultimate mission, after having spent fortunes investing in AI models.

The USA Government can ban all Chinese AI apps, but the Global South is not going to follow suit. Maybe the Europeans will be forced to follow in the USA's footstep and cutting their noses to spite their faces. In the end the real losers are the USA and European AI consumers. They have to pay an arm and a leg to use USA mandated AI models, benefitting just the big tech giants inside the USA.

China is fortunate to have such a big market in the Global South that is still progressing and expanding with the BRI in place. These countries will benefit from infrastructures and investments by China. More than that is the de-dollarization agenda behind those projects. There is an alternative system that was never there before - trading without the US$ through the BRICS bloc.

Anonymous