> The only standard to evaluate this system is whether something is universal, inclusive, green, and sustainable. The cutting-edge technologies backing this standard, like big data, cloud computing, and blockchain are already ready today to take on this huge responsibility.
Looks like Jack is not being entirely honest here. Blockchains are not a "green" technology.
> It's also interesting to see what relatively mild comments could trigger this kind of reaction when power is so centralized.
I haven't read "Mao's thoughts" on the distinction between practice and theory [edit: skimmed it, pull quote below] (c.f. Jack Ma on "documents" vs "policy" "experts"). For God's sakes, this is Communist China, a Marxist party, and a country with a tradition of proverbial parsing of tea leaves for hidden and subtle meaning. And it is a direct attack on the very purpose of the Party. Manage the country's growth and future!
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So, what is Jack Ma's thought crime? What is the issue with his "empiricist" mindset?
"There were also a number of comrades who were empiricists and who for a long period restricted themselves to their own fragmentary experience and did not understand the importance of theory for revolutionary practice or see the revolution as a whole, but worked blindly though industriously." - Mao Tse-tung
Looks like Jack is not being entirely honest here. Blockchains are not a "green" technology.
> It's also interesting to see what relatively mild comments could trigger this kind of reaction when power is so centralized.
There was nothing mild about his comments.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-work...
I haven't read "Mao's thoughts" on the distinction between practice and theory [edit: skimmed it, pull quote below] (c.f. Jack Ma on "documents" vs "policy" "experts"). For God's sakes, this is Communist China, a Marxist party, and a country with a tradition of proverbial parsing of tea leaves for hidden and subtle meaning. And it is a direct attack on the very purpose of the Party. Manage the country's growth and future!
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So, what is Jack Ma's thought crime? What is the issue with his "empiricist" mindset?
"There were also a number of comrades who were empiricists and who for a long period restricted themselves to their own fragmentary experience and did not understand the importance of theory for revolutionary practice or see the revolution as a whole, but worked blindly though industriously." - Mao Tse-tung