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Let's use some bigger, current metrics to measure whether or not US is collapse or not, instead of some random stats about shooting, or observations about US co
by anthonyleecook 9y ago
Let's use some bigger, current metrics to measure whether or not US is collapse or not, instead of some random stats about shooting, or observations about US collapse.
1.) US GDP is 19.73 trillion in 4th quarter 2017, best in the world. https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-gdp-5-latest-statistics-and-how-to-use-them-3306041 https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-gdp-5-latest-statistics-and-h... second best is EU, at 17.1 trillion.
2.) US GDP per capita is $57,000, pretty impressive considering it has a population of 330+ million people and growing. compare that with $8000 for China.
3.) US ranked 3rd in GDP per hours worked, pretty productive for such a big nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_hour_worked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
4.) Dollar is still the hegemony
5.) US military is the biggest in the world, and has the most combat experiences. It has provoked many wars over the years, some good (toppling dictators, preventing communisms from spreading, advocating democracies), as well as some bad (instilling instabilities in regions)
6.) US innovation is everywhere, in tech (internet, hardware, software), finance, entertainment (games, tv, movies, music), lifestyle, education, services, etc
7.) there's a bigger upper middle class than ever, lower middle class has shrank . http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/21/news/economy/upper-middle-class/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/21/news/economy/upper-middle-cl...
8.) With tariffs punishing China, Apple/Amazon investments of billions into american cities, and fines levied on China for unfair tech transfers, US will revive manufacturing and economies in middle America
- throwawayjava 9y agoAmerica is the most powerful and impressive developed country in the world, attached to a vast and profoundly depressing failed developed state. C.f. SF Bay and rural Oklahoma.