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Complex paradigm
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When you live outside of America you often get served this hype that this is the best country ever (what is the case in America as well). Therefore when none American sees that this country struggles even with stuff that some other countries solved a while ago you are left in a "Santa isn't real" moment. What especially stays with you because American entertainment is pretty much everywhere and it holds this hype. With nations like mine this is extra brutal, we LITERALLY blew up the system and caused a full scale war which is the biggest one Europe saw since WW2 just so that we can be more like America. Only to realize that Santa is in fact guy named Greg and he works as Santa since he can't live from his retirement, which he earned as a bus driver. This is severe cultural shock and now people are confused, the more we westernize the more unhappy people we have. What created very big cultural doubts in "What do we do now?" department. With pretty much every none American you can find here and especially with Europeans you can sense a certain disappointment with poverty and chaos in USA. Especially since even what USA did right it mostly messed up over last two decades. I mean with spending time here I lost some of the illusions as well and realized that my country isn't nearly as bad as some people claim.
But what I still find impressive are long bridges and very high buildings. Guns are kinda cool but a double edged sword. Still the largest GDP in the world (even if it is surely full of "bubbles"), I have enjoyed some of your entertainment over the years, large open spaces and wilds (I love to hike). You tuned a number of nations into a good places for a living until you started to do stupid stuff around the map a few decades ago. You are founder of many global institution that made the difference. First man on the moon is yours. I mean there are really stuff to be proud of but it seem that someone has to get their hands really dirty and pump out all the shit that pilled on one another. Which is exactly why I claim the business as usual will not really work here.
Inequality ?
The classic Capitalism is dead since globalization and digitalization killed it and economy is no longer zero sum game for a nation since you have large trade and competitions between distant nations. Therefore those that master the trade and holes will probably have the biggest income. In America there surely is inequality problem since you have endless people whose job someone overseas can do equally or better for 5% of the price (and have a living based on that). This is simply unfair since no tax cuts or extra effort can really solve this big of a gap. Therefore when someone makes a career in importing all those cheap stuff he is kind of a jerk market wise. Therefore after this there is no need that anyone really produces anything and everyone should just switch to trade. What is what happened for the most part but now you have dependent country in which most don't know how to fix physical stuff since industry is mostly out of the loop. Plus on the top of that someone thinks that it is good idea to reduce taxes for the traders of foreign goods so that most of environment doesn't see any of the money made by overseas production.
Personally I never realized why this word "inequality" triggers so many people, especially since it talks about fairness. Even if it is kinda clumsy choice of words for what it is going on here. I presume this has something about being labeled as "weaker side" or people who use the term frequently. Therefore until something is done about this inequality there will hardly be much more quality, since making stuff in USA is no longer really profitable and many are too broke for expensive locally made stuff. Since the circle is simply broken and this will not fix itself and this is where China has royally screwed you. Because it convinced the top of America that it is ok to sell your "soul" for large extra profit and that is the key flaw of completely unregulated capitalism - Everything is for sale. Inside a nation this can perhaps work to some degree but globally you will surely have clear winners and losers. Especially since winners position towards third countries will change and that further tilts the game.
For example take a look at USA-CHINA-CROATIA triangle: The extra profit that China makes with USA it can use to tilt Croatia to it's side with what are massive investments for this small country. Especially since there is this crisis that "Santa isn't real" and perhaps we should return some things back towards socialism. The thing is that by exporting industry all the countries that we before dependent on you are now dependent on China for manufacture. Plus even stuff that you just produce in China many not do well in Croatia. Because most of China stuff is of questionable quality and therefore it often makes more sense to buy Chinese product from China than American from China because the first one doesn't have a middle man (this is how iPhone basically crashed in my country, judging by my experiences). After all if I want real quality I will go with German product (or at least Czech or Polish product). However since China managed to suck so much money out of USA even those trademarks are now often owned by China. Especially since those countries also have "Santa isn't real problem". What in the end opens the question was freedom of private investors really worth of this global chaos in which China basically bought the world ? Which is where globalism, neoliberalism or however you want to call it failed in it's task. Due to the greed people forgot that they are fueling authoritarian government instead just one more private business. Therefore now the biggest fish in the tank is authoritarian government and the whole "game" is messed up. (and that is unfair aka "unequal")
This came larger than expected.
