[buwaya]

Hehe.

There ARE differences. The US economy is not in the main supported by extraction industries wherein the state owns the resources. The US depends on the sweat of its peoples brows in privately held firms subject to market discipline. The US still survives by making stuff.

The proceeds of the US economy aren’t, in the main, invested abroad, but are recycled into (hopefully) productive domestic investments. Trump helped a lot with that BTW.

US crime, at least in value, is restricted to the top of society. The old American volk still exists, largely uncorrupted. The ways of American corruption are highly elitist.

[fr_freak]

The US economy is not in the main supported by extraction industries wherein the state owns the resources.

Oh yeah? Who's the one dictating where we get to drill for oil? The US government tells us whether we can extract oil from Alaska, from shale in North Dakota, or offshore. We're currently looking at gas prices double what they were just a few years ago because our government says we can't do anything to alleviate that.

The proceeds of the US economy aren’t, in the main, invested abroad, but are recycled into (hopefully) productive domestic investments.

Seems to me like we invested in factories in China and Mexico, and the infrastructure to support them, and are now dependent on them, whereas in the US we've moved to a service economy, and we literally have bridges falling down.