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American pride won't save this country from long-term trends. Before any meaningful change can be made, the "we're the best" attitude has to go. Sometime in the next 2 decades China is gonna put a man on Mars before the US, I can't wait to see the shocked faces
I’ll be shocked when the American president sends her daughter to study in China, or when the British monarchy starts exiling to China.
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Why do you think it's tough to believe?
Because America has some of the best healthcare outcomes in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...
And there are other metrics to consider. The US is 35th in life expectancy and falling farther behind. And we have notoriously bad rates of maternal and infant mortality compared to other wealthy nations.
"Any single defeat can be attributed to particular and ad hoc circumstances, but America is unique among the world’s dominant powers of the past 500 years in its repeated failure to achieve military objectives over decades. Those failures are even more extraordinary because they occurred in the absence of a rising military rival and as America’s ability and willingness to produce and pay for the weapons needed for mi…
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Why do you think it's tough to believe?
Because America has some of the best healthcare outcomes in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...
I'm not yet at the point of starting a family, but when the time approaches I'm going to seriously consider other, more functional societies as places to do so.
What's keeping you from considering those other societies now? Why wait until you're starting a family?
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Because America has some of the best healthcare outcomes in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...
Being in the top 10-15 is great. But that ranking comes with a price tag roughly double the other highest ranking nations. Not to mention the financial ruin and bankruptcies experienced by some survivors, and the financial pressure experienced by virtually everyone that has to engage heavily with our healthcare system. And there are other metrics to consider. The US is 35th in life expectancy and falling farther behi…
Good read. America today looks like the crumpling world described by Ayn Rand in `Atlass Shrugged`. Ironically the reason of this downfall is the adoption of naive form of capitalism that Ayn Rand popularized.
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Why do you think it's tough to believe?
Because America has some of the best healthcare outcomes in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...
It’s funny that the author on one hand acknowledges that the government sucks at everything it does, whether it’s education, infrastructure, or health insurance. He also acknowledges that the federal government has a tendency to constantly engage in costly foreign wars regardless of who happens to be in office. Yet his proposed solution is to give the government even more money and even more power.
Endless wars would change. Infrastructure would be a larger discussion, etc...