America became the biggest economy because of brains and innovation driving it, its as true a hundred years ago as it is today. The opportunity to make money fo

America became the biggest economy because of brains and innovation driving it, its as true a hundred years ago as it is today. The opportunity to make money for yourself - thats what drove the American economy and still drives it today. A lot of people are commenting that American wealth came from slavery, but that is simply not so - nearly every country on Earth had some degrees of slavery, but how many had succeeded? Slaves didn't smelt steel, nor designed and built battleships to be sold to the Russian Empire in 1900s. Today though, you can see countries like Germany take the lead with their better protections for inventors and better incentives and protections for the employees.