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by yodsanklai 528 days ago
> America is the most successful country on this earth

According to what metrics? life expectancy? crime rate? wealth per inhabitant? education? work life balance? health care? happiness? incarceration rate? human rights? corruption? freedom of press?

American tax dollars aren't spent in Europe or elsewhere in the world for some altruistic reason. The US want to maintain their hegemony and prevent other powers from emerging. They certainly don't care about Europeans or Taiwanese or whoever.

> I challenge you to find another economic system that has worked in history, because it sure isn’t communism if that’s what you’re referencing.

Not that I'm a big fan of communism or China, but communist China has been doing pretty well, and is getting more innovative than the US

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The part of China that is innovative is not communist. They have the most free-market labor market, the most free-market regulations in everything except media (which is heavily controlled by the state).

China is the most brutally capitalist society in the world, with a dictator sitting on top managing it at the margins and ensuring media will never be free and threaten the communist party.

Bunch of lies lmao