| ▲ | dfdsjsdklfjs 2 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> I'm not American. But I guess I feel part of the US led western world order. Thanks to the diligent efforts of Hollywood. > The US has big companies and wealth because it has the right ecosystem to create those. It also has giant homeless camps stretching on for miles, abandoned and collapsing old houses, factories, etc as far as the eye can see. The so-called "wealth" of this country is highly concentrated and is so far beyond the reach of most people we might as well be living in a different country. As we speak we are headed to a giant market collapse as the last dollars are shaken out of everyone's pocket, and we continue into a hard Depression. This will be followed by a World War. The outcome of that one will be much different than the last one. > The US is in decline is a meme. Wrong. The United States is in fact in decline, and has been for decades. It is the end of the American Empire. Source: I am an actual American, who has eyes and ears and most importantly, has a deep understanding of history, both ancient and "modern." This ship is sinking. The only people who haven't figured it out are people brainwashed by the media. It's easier for that to happen when you don't have a front row seat to the circus. > It should be in the interest of most of us to see more US success. Nope. It isn't. If it were, then it would not be failing. Think about it. It's said there are three types of people in the world: 1) Those who make things happen. 2) Those who watch things happen. 3) Those who look around in confusion asking, "What happened?" That last one is you. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | YZF 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How old are you? What are your political views? How do you measure decline and what in your opinion is rising vs. this decline. There have certainly been some trends like globalization, climate change, social media, the pandemic, immigration etc. Can you elaborate on how it's in the interest of a hypothetical French person commenting on Hacker News, typing on their MBP laptop, tuning in to NetFlix, asking ChatGPT for recipes, to see the US fail and what you mean by fail. Fail as in break up? chaos? become a third world country? Total collapse of US tech? What does fail look like. This is not a zero sum game. EDIT: you edited while I was replying which makes this a moving target. EDIT2: The US has already survived depressions and world wars. It's true that wealth inequality is historically high but not the highest: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/SaezZucman14slides.pdf But as I said this is not a zero sum game: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N real median household income is at all times high. I'm not saying everything is great but I'm certainly not brainwashed by the media. Will there be economic trouble ahead- sure. There always are. Are there other places in the world with structural advantages over the USA? I'm not seeing them. Can the US lose its advantages - everything is possible. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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