We used to make products in America. Now we only make “money”. Or used to, anyway.
Back in the seventies I was talking to a Brazilian gentleman and he told me that In the Portuguese language there was no way to say " Make money" you could earn , steal or inherit money . He thought that gave Americans a psychological advantage because if you thought in Portuguese the only way to get money was to take it from someone else that money was a zero sum game but if you you thought in English every boby could do better together.
I'm thinking that to many people decided that producing something was to much like actual work and it was easier to just game the system to make themselves rich