Comment by kcaseg
6 days ago
Last time I commented something very similar thinking it was the least controversial no brainer thing and multiple people reacted as if it was some Leninist ragebait lol
6 days ago
Last time I commented something very similar thinking it was the least controversial no brainer thing and multiple people reacted as if it was some Leninist ragebait lol
Conditioning- America is a capitalist social experiment and I mean that literally
Seems pretty successful then no for being such a young country. America is literally where all the major tech and internet companies are.
Where I'm pretty sure that the definition of "successful" that you have in mind is one given by America itself.
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That is partly attributed to being by far the largest single market for much of the 20th century - European countries have at most ~30% of the population - and being the only major economy not destroyed by the end of WWII, which resulted in the US producing half of world GDP at the time.
US businesses have had a much larger market to sell to, and that attracts investment and talent.
A young country that inherited old values, cultural norms, traditions and ethos.
It’s not like the US rose in a vacuum. It sees impressive on its face and to some extent I believe it is, but it has more to do with being a resource rich nation (lots of plentiful raw material within our borders) and the fact the last time we had a foreign invasion was during the war of 1812.
We aren’t some near unbelievable anomaly of history, we built on our British roots
"Hub for all the major tech companies" isn't the only metric that matters, not in the face of its current administration. It so is not.
Like TSMC and ASML?
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One great thing about America is that we won't shoot you at the border for trying to leave.
It's also one of the countries with the highest percentage of people who give to charity and volunteer, fwiw.
People in the USA have to volunteer to provide social services not provided by the government though, stuff like food banks which many other developed countries have services in place to take care of their citizens.
Charitable donations follow a similar pattern, the USA is a different system so not really comparable to some other developed countries which have public systems in place to cover these cases.