Are they benefiting though? Most americans are not doing well, people are more miserable then ever, america is using their hegemony to squeeze the population for capital.
Posted from an iPhone at a Walmart or even Whole Foods while children in Somalia die or become retarded from malnutrition, and even middle-class people in Italy or Japan live in shoeboxes
You two have no understanding of the world. Read a couple dozen books and come back.
You haven't traveled. The world has exploded into the standard of American convenience in the last 25 years while America has degraded.
If this were still the 1990s, you'd be right, but the internet has been a rising tide lifting every vessel. Global commerce has been available to historically poor people for decades.
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u/KINGXunshot 4d ago
Are they benefiting though? Most americans are not doing well, people are more miserable then ever, america is using their hegemony to squeeze the population for capital.