> No. Yes. > The US legal system The US legal system is not some global shining paragon of how a judicial system should operate. See the shitshow around Kava

> No. Yes. > The US legal system The US legal system is not some global shining paragon of how a judicial system should operate. See the shitshow around Kavanaugh how the highest court of the US judicial system has become a plaything of partisan politics. Remember that for a proper trias politica, there needs to be clear separation between the two. > a free press America is 45th in Freedom of Press rankings, behind Burkina Faso, a country that was a dictatorship until 2014, under military control until 2015, and still somewhat in turmoil. > a long-standing calvinist work ethic Most of NW Europe has 'a long-standing calvinist work ethic'. > continued financial infrastructure investment It is not as if the rest of the worlds' financial infrastructure is in disrepair. The reason why the US has such a huge finance industry isn't 'continued upkeep' but the absurd freedom the financial industry gets to do whatever it wants. The strange thing is that the US doesn't even have the most lax regulations - they just have absurdly weak enforcement of those regulations. For a prime example look up how absurdly lightly HSBC got away with their criminal behaviour. > These things have proven impossible to reproduce - in aggregate - anywhere else. There are two reasons for the US dollar being the main reserve currency: WWII and the petro dollar. Your claim is pretty much a perfect example of American Exceptionalism. 'American exceptionalism is an ideology holding the United States as unique among nations in positive or negative connotations, with respect to its ideas of democracy and personal freedom'