America is Fucked
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"America the Mediocre
Americans think they’re No. 1. They’re wrong in so many ways."
"For many Americans, the proposition that they live in the most powerful, richest, and most advanced society on Earth is something close to a statement of faith.
A 2017 Pew Research Center poll found that most Americans disagree only whether the United States is the best country in the world (29 percent) or one of the best (56 percent). Only 14 percent of Americans agree instead that there are other, better countries.
Elites agree, too. Forget the current president’s flag-humping rhetoric—even the cool and cerebral Barack Obama said it was “objectively” true that the United States holds “the best cards of any country on Earth.”
That might be the case in a game of geopolitical Risk, where the cards that count are military strength and overall GDP.
But in ordinary life, it’s harder to make the case for America as No. 1. The rest of the world is developing and adopting policies that can make everyday life in the United States, outside of a few coastal oases, seem ... old.
Even backward. And the U.S. reluctance, or inability, to learn from other countries is making life worse for its citizens than it has to be—not just in the big ways, such as the disasters of American health care and student debt, but in the little, everyday ones, too."
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- but how do you explain US immigration numbers being top dawg? If so bad why do ppl come here?********
- its funny to are edu/healthcare is stupidly expensive because of gov where as others are cheap but not very good. or pay scale is off. Many foreign doctors********
- get schooled abroad the best way to game the college credit system on public dime and move here to make real wage vs hoem wages********
- salaries are far different. funding and all these little gov rules creating bubbles to be taken advantage of********
- When you think your No. 1 you see no reason to learn from others, as they must be worse than youNutter
- i dont think of such types of shit, but i do find immigration numbers telling of what people think********
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