• Lung@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    America is the center of the world, hate all you want. This is the cutting edge today. Hollywood is the dominant music/media power. Silicon valley is the dominant technology power. NY is the dominant financial hub. The hippie cultural revolution was largely here, and the civil rights revolutions that inform modern morals. America spends more on military than the rest of the world combined, and therefore has massive influence

    So that’s my context for being here. I was born pretty far away in Europe, which is great in its own ways. But if you really want to play the game at the highest level, America is the place to do it. Everyone else is just trying to catch up. Or they are enjoying a happy low stress life of wine and women with a high standard of living and low inequality — which are definitely unamerican ideals XD

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 months ago

      But if you really want to play the game at the highest level, America is the place to do it.

      I mean if “the game” is having the largest prison population per capita then sure, but otherwise America is mid in almost every category.