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Capitalism is absurdly inneficient for maintaining long term humanity interests, e.g. the U.S became a third world country since they let westinghouse dies in d
by The_rationalist 5y ago
Capitalism is absurdly inneficient for maintaining long term humanity interests, e.g. the U.S became a third world country since they let westinghouse dies in darkness. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/westinghouse-toshiba-nuclear-bankruptcy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/westinghouse-tos...
- mywittyname 5y agoThe USA is, by definition, the first world. First world means, USA or it's NATO allies. The second world is USSR and associated allies. The third world is everyone else. Implying they are too insignificant to be allied to either. Which isn't necessarily the case. Finland and Sweden are technically "third world" countries, as they are not NATO members.
- The_rationalist 5y agobruh what I meant is obvious no need for such truisms. Third world can be intended to mean a pejorative qualiticative of weakness, here the U.S has become third world-like regarding nuclear energy knowledge and production, basically synonymous to irrelevant. Aso your rigid and off-topic definition does not scale in a multipolar world with new powers and changing dynamics, e.g China
- mywittyname 5y agoIt's in poor taste to use the term "third world" in a pejorative way.
- The_rationalist 5y agoThe ends justify the means and the world definitely would benefit from a pro-nuclear psy-ops