alt Hacker NewsAmericans (and not just the US) think they still have the influence on the world they had in the 1980s when their economies were a much larger proportion of the global economy. Americans have no idea what the world looks like from Asia which contains most of the world's population and generates a third of global GDP.
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graemep • yesterday at 1:01 PM
It is a general western problem to some extent, but the US has a a faster growing economy than any of the big European economies. It is still a super-power.
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gyanchawdhary • yesterday at 2:59 PM
But they do and you are bitter and sad that you can’t do a thing about it.
If both of these views are true (and they appear to be becoming more true every day): what happens?
I find it a little hard to believe that Russia or China or whoever in the East or South is quietly puppeting all the bullshittery happening now. Maybe a little less hard to believe that the West has just collectively decided to huff lead gas fumes and lose our collective minds for a generation.
Maybe this is just how corrupt capitalistic societies die and the East is happy to sit back and watch us burn ourselves to the ground.