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USA I suppose. But I haven't really researched Hong Kong or a few other smaller countries I've heard are good in terms of free market. It's easy to complain ab
by xenophanes 16y ago
USA I suppose. But I haven't really researched Hong Kong or a few other smaller countries I've heard are good in terms of free market.
It's easy to complain about the US, and plenty of the complaints are true, but that doesn't mean the US isn't the greatest country of all time. And the US is getting better not worse -- for example if you read about the history of the railroads the amount of Government corruption and unethical business practices 100 years ago is really quite amazing and shows how far we've come. And if you go back another 100 years, then the UK was the best country, but it was really really really bad compared to the modern world -- it's hard to express how bad it was in any short statement. Gay sex was punished by hanging, there was slavery, women were property of their husbands (not 100% property, but ugh), racism was the norm, and being rich and powerful was usually about political power and achieved by methods like land grants from the Government as favors for military service; there may be quite a few bad businesses today and people rich due to crime or Government favors, but we have cut down on that stuff, and also we have far more people who earned their money as entrepreneurs, far more middle class, etc