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> Do you think the rest of the world is going to sit back and be cynically exploited forever? Yes absolutely. Because this system does not benefits american ci
by skywal_l 5y ago
> Do you think the rest of the world is going to sit back and be cynically exploited forever?
Yes absolutely. Because this system does not benefits american citizens (it used to, but it is less and less the case). It benefits world elites which have been co-opted in a global financial system which is based on the dollar. Hell, the CCP leaders all own assets in dollars, they wouldn't want to see any of this change. Remember that the money that fuel the 2008 bubble was, for the most part, chinese investments.
Bottom line is, the world is driven not by ideologies or political interests but by economic interests. At the top: greed and at the bottom: hunger, with a declination in between. Both ends tend toward the status quo and the dollar is very much part of it. For me, only ecological collapse or some other unforeseen global cataclysm would change any of that and probably not for the best.
- bradleyjg 5y agoIt absolutely does benefit US citizens. The argument to the contrary about boogeyman elites is just designed to let ordinary Americans off the hook so they will join in your crusade (and so they won’t have to feel guilty.) Ordinary American homeowners have massively benefited from rising home prices. They’ve spent that money on vacations, cars, drugs, etc.