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by newfriend 1810 days ago
Forgive me if I don't care about an opinion piece by someone who hates America.

> America is built mostly on immigrant work ethic

Isn't it interesting how many believe the US was solely built by immigrants, slaves, and natives. I wonder what American citizens did during this time?

> the collapse of the european powers

The US was already inventing and building in the 1800s, no collapse needed.

> Not sure america is that special, just lucky - right place, right time.

It's easy to ascribe luck to anything successful. You could say Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc were nothing special, just lucky - right place, right time, but I don't think that's true.