With plentiful energy and scalable supply chain we could've also done it with the people we already have, without creating huge swaths of the country that look

With plentiful energy and scalable supply chain we could've also done it with the people we already have, without creating huge swaths of the country that look barely better off than the fishing villages we blew to shit in Vietnam. Unfortunately that's not as profitable in the short term as financializing the entire economy was, and we don't make decisions here based on good long-term planning, we let the failsons of the last generations industrial titans decide things they barely comprehend from positions they didn't earn, and they ran the economy into the ground, exactly as the monarchs of eras past did elsewhere.