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SWERFs love specific instances, so probably.

Pretending that any software is 100% accurate in a capitalist setting is a ridiculous thing to do; and every television and car since the 1970s has some software involved.

With cars it generally works well enough long enough in enough cases that that direct ECU or other computer patching isn't needed, because who cares if you have a misfire in every 100,000 cycles as long as the car still runs.

I was originally referring to the same thing in ICE cars that are in EVs, i.e. the infotainment and gauge display systems which are the majority of software updates in either case study, but let's not pretend this is the 1950s for ICE cars; yes your ECU on your shitbox probably does legitimately have a software update that has better tuning, especially if the same engine was used in two separate production years. Guess what they updated to get more performance despite it having the same engine in order to justify the next year release? The fucking software. Also many recalls are software based these days for all the things that aren't directly mechanical, like airbag, or lane assist, or backup cameras, or fuel systems, or the ABS controller. All of those things will inevitably have a software flaw. All of those things can be updated, and are updated at least once during the production cycle if only to add additional hardware support when new hardware is swapped into the same model.

EVs, because they are so much more simple than ICE cars in every single possible way, lean harder on software since that's the only thing that can really be effectively separated into distinct packages and models until solid state batteries come about.

Given they stopped making them before smart phones were a thing I imagine not, but that's also why your SiriusXM no longer works if you're not a brokie and got a level 3 trim.

There's a reason I said 'current industry standard,' things from almost the last century barely qualify as vehicles by modern standards, and your car couldn't pass a safety inspect for sale in almost any country today.

That's better than ICE cars having to go to the dealer to update their software, which is the current industry standard.

Associating the soviet union, which before china was the fastest country to ever industrialize, modernize, and innovate past its competition, with stagnation is kinda wild.

They won the space race with 1/10th the budget and more efficient rocket motors. If they saw computers for what the actual potential was like Chile did with project cybersyn, the wall wouldn't have fallen and a lot of countries would be speaking Russian right now.

Dictatorship is when a president needs approval from congress to do anything. You sure are very smat.

That would be ridiculously expensive and time consuming. The question does not present a lead up scenario but one would assume whatever deal this is doesn't allow for a lot of prep time or extra money.

Additionally any money that would exist in that time period that survived to today... would still be present in that time period. In a pre-computer world it'd be easier to get away with what is essentially counterfeiting or what would be explained as counterfeiting to those that caught you; but that's still a massive risk for saving at best a few years building up that wealth yourself.

And that's all assuming you didn't create a paradox by allowing those two versions of the same item to exist simultaneously. Like you traveling back is fine, as you wouldn't exist in 1945, but bringing items that did exist would either displace the money to avoid the paradox, changing the future possibly significantly which breaks the rules, creates a paradox which would cause you to no longer exist.

Yeah but without cash as a freshly time traveled person to 1945 there's only so many ways to get a gun.

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1945? Bank robbery is still incredibly easy. Literally all forensics is during this time period is just fingerprinting. People are also malnourished and incredibly weak compared to the average person in 2026. So beat up some GI that illegally kept a gun from the war, use that to perform a series of bank robberies along the west coast of the US and the American South (where Gold stores were concentrated during the gold standard period we find ourselves in).

After that invent corporate trusts and the concept of multi-layer corporate holdings. This would be having a corporation per property owned, which is owned by a corporation and uses services from another corporation, all of which eventually ends in a labyrinthine ownership path that few, if any, forensic accountants in the 1940s could possibly follow to find out it's all just me.

By understanding, even just vaguely, which cities and areas get built up over time in history and buying surrounding properties cheaply and simply holding them until areas are built up enough to sell them for massive profit I would be able to generate essentially infinite money from basic seed money. Add onto this a series of bank and hedge fund holdings that are informed roughly when to invest in specific companies as they come up through the ages the infinite money glitch becomes an exponential money glitch.

Again layers and layers of holdings on holdings on holdings creates obscurity and complexity that would take well into the age of computers to ever unravel. A kingdom easily rivaling the Rothschilds, while being even more hidden as I'd be copying their modern techniques a half century before they perfect them.

With infinite exponential money during the golden age of capitalism I can wait until the present day when I'd no longer be effecting the timeline and then start funding communist revolutions globally, allowing for myself to become a martyr in the revolution.

A popular myth about the Chinese revolution is that Mao's government ordered the execution of landlords. This is entirely incorrect. Mao actually insisted on nonviolence towards the ownership class that complied with the revolution so that systematic and non-violent justice could be done as a show to the world the new government weren't just violent peasants throwing a fit; but rather prove that peasants, when given power, would act more fairly than those that ruled before.

Despite this push from all official sources to NOT kill landlords, with assurances from Mao's government that renters would be free to make legal claims on the land they've historically rented and their landlords would be legally punished, the people, when given the opportunity, decided to kill their landlords en masse.

Some of these landlords, undoubtedly, were "fair" landlords. Some were undoubtedly "able to keep rent tolerable."

All of them were leeches on society, and society, when given the freedom to express their true feelings of reality, understand these leeches need to be physically removed from this plane of existence.

People generally do not have it in them to kill others. It's one of the few things people cannot generally just do. It requires someone to be pushed, punished, tortured, sometimes for years or for someone to pose that same immediate danger.

Landlords will always fall into one of those categories.

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