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azinman2yesterday at 1:28 AM1 replyview on HN

The US had it when the rest of the world was severely bombed during WWII, and a lot of the world was very undeveloped. Things changed.


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edgyquantyesterday at 2:35 PM

The US had it for a hundred years before that and was already by far the largest industrial power on the planet before world war 1