The only way I can see anyone arriving at that conclusion is by believing that India and China in the previous century was an “all else is equal” scenario. Which is a wild take

“Look, if WE didn’t make the toxic chemical and leak it everywhere the CHINESE might do it and then where would we be at? Knee-deep in FOREIGN chemicals, that’s where. USA! USA!” -the AI companies

The US’s private prison system being allowed to reach its natural end point…

I think a lot of millennials, who now have some purchasing power and are in their furnishing-homes stage, grew up with vestiges of it in public and private spaces, saw it in families’ homes and in magazines and what not. Plus anemoia

Seems part of a new trend, anecdotally speaking. I remember a lot of… oddities when using the lifts in the new government offices Kai Tak the first year they were open