> nobody can estimate out to decades. anyone who claim to be able to do so is a charlatan. No one can with certainty, but it's also foolish not to try. Anyway

> nobody can estimate out to decades. anyone who claim to be able to do so is a charlatan. No one can with certainty, but it's also foolish not to try. Anyway, you're doing the same thing: any enumeration of strengths (in this context) comes with the implication that those strengths will remain. Otherwise the list is moot. >> If [video games] is in the top 10, it's damning with faint praise > 1.2B people play games worldwide....what's your point? Clearly that "games" aren't actually an important category in any sensible reckoning, and that an one that treats them as such is a mockery or something that can't be taken seriously. > no it's not. having assets and the ability to generate even more assets are seperate issues (look at Saudi Arabia post oil) This might be the time to point out that you didn't even define what "assets" you were talking about, let alone how you determined that the US has "40%" of them. > Until you try selling your stolen technology in US or Europe or Japan....oh wait you can't. There's more to the world that Europe or Japan. > population having asset is different than the country having corporations. Maybe technically, but most American "assets" are owned or controlled by corporations. And their value is that they control those assets.