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Why not? It is very young (on countries scale) and burns money of investors without producing much value. Typical startup.
by Glavnokoman 4y ago
Why not? It is very young (on countries scale) and burns money of investors without producing much value. Typical startup.
- Pulcinella 4y agoThe US is one of the oldest countries in the world. It’s older than Italy, for example.
- sgjohnson 4y agoOnly if we’re considering strictly the entity.
- tiahura 4y agoIf we’re considering the land then they’re all the same.
- rapsey 4y agoExactly. People often think European countries are old. The nationalities sure, the political systems such as they are now were born after ww2.
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoEven the nationalities are debatable. A lot of the national identities didn't form until the 18th or 19th centuries.
- SapporoChris 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation#Sortable_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_da... Highly debatable. However, I think most citizens would consider their nations age date of acquisition of sovereignty, not from the date of the current form of government or any other standard. Anyway, calling United States one of the oldest countries in the world is about as defensible as calling it one of the newest countries in the world. I just don't see the data for it.
- peteradio 4y agoThere is no data for it, its definitional. The two definitions skew the perception of the answer. Perhaps you care about stability and somehow you've got a correlation between length of government standing and your perception of stability. What defines a country?
- mirceal 4y agohaha imho, that’s not what makes a startup. in your analogy: who are the investors? the US not only burns the money, it has the ability to print more money. between the petrodollar and the military supremacy the only thing that can topple the US are internal factors.
- bluedevil2k 4y agoYou mean just like every other country in the world?