I only had to read one sentence to figure out your historical ignorance. When we were a powerhouse of industry, it’s because the rest of the world was devastated by WW 2 or was totally undeveloped. That situation is totally different now, so you’ve made a straw argument with no reflection of reality nor any understanding of it.
Actually we were a first world industrialized power at the beginning of the 20th century; maybe not by modern standards but by historical standards judging each generation or era and not conflating them.
It would appear that this thread has gone to the ‘dogs’.
It wasn't true during the 1890's, the 1900's, the 1920's, or the 1930's. We dusted them back then, too.