- 9 months
I am afraid a major part of the answer is “inequality”.
And lucking out from a geographical standpoint.
9 monthsYeah this is just seeing the two tiered system and assuming it’s one large group.
The “haves” and the “have nots” live veeeery different lives.
- 9 months
l have seen it described as “The most advanced high tech society and a third world country thrown together into the same nation”.
- twinnie@feddit.ukEnglish9 months
If you go back through history the greatest advancements have always come from the richest countries, they just have the resources to do those things. American athletes are bragging about how they’re the best in the world as they compete with people who lack basic equipment and have proper jobs. I remember some Olympic swimmer who had never even been in an Olympic size swimming pool before he got to the event.
America got rich because when the rest of the Allies were fighting the Nazis they sat back and loaned resources, then spent the next 5 decades taking repayments.
- ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 months
Your first part is fair, but your second part is a bit misleading. We sent troops, just not until people were convinced that it was an “us” problem too. People didn’t want to get tangled up in another one of Europes wars. Much like how most of the allies also didn’t get involved until they got threatened too. Except the soviet’s, who had an alliance with them.
It’s not like providing the materials needed to actually survive is nothing. Our entire economy was repurposed around doing so. The repayment was because a massive “European problem” contingent thought a budget neutral requirement would keep us from helping. We worked out a system where we bought long term leases on land, and they used that cash to buy weapons from us. It was a shell game.We got rich after the war because everyone else was rubble and we still had factories.
- mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
We got rich after the war because everyone else was rubble and we still had factories.
This is it. Most of the wealth* of a nation is real estate (and residential real estate is a very large fraction). Money, including gold or the like, is a very small portion of wealth. Europe’s wealth was literally burned to the ground and blown to smithereens. North America, on the other hand, kept all the wealth it had. So it became wealthier by comparison.
*I’m talking about wealth here, not income.
- blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
Literally every young man in America enlisted in that war. Stfu
- IronBird@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
read a history book…they had to start a mass propaganda campaign across the US just to convince americans that the germans were the bad guys. (prior to pearl harbor, at which point americans couldn’t help but turn on their own asian-americans ontop of everything)
“whats so bad about wanting to hurt blacks and jews?” - average american wasp
